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According to Ja'han Jones of MSNBC's The ReidOut Blog, Barr continued to defend Trump by repeating debunked "Russiagate" conspiracy theories about the origins of the Russia investigation by stating that the case against Sussmann "crystallized the central role played by the Hillary campaign in launching, as a dirty trick, the whole Russiagate ...
To establish whether a crime was committed by members of the Trump campaign with regard to Russian interference, investigators "applied the framework of conspiracy law", and not the concept of "collusion", because collusion "is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal ...
The report states that the first possible obstruction case was during the 2016 presidential campaign, when questions "arose about the Russian government's apparent support for candidate Trump". The report states that while Trump was publicly skeptical Russia had released emails from Democratic officials, Trump and his aides were also trying to ...
Russian security expert Andrei Soldatov has said, "[The Kremlin] believes that with Clinton in the White House it will be almost impossible to lift sanctions against Russia. So it is a very important question for Putin personally. This is a question of national security." [30] Russian officials have denied the allegations multiple times.
The outing of Danchenko by Attorney General William Barr also brought to light an inaccuracy in the dossier that describes him as a "Russian-based" source. In fact, although he traveled to Russia six times [204] in 2016 to gather information, [101] and his source network is mostly in Russia, he is a Ukrainian-born and Russian-trained lawyer ...
A Russian national, he is believed to be in Moscow, where he may have ties to Russian intelligence. [139] Per a 2018 classified State Department assessment Ukraine's former Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko allowed Kilimnik to escape from Ukraine to Russia after the US federal grand jury charged Kilimnik with obstruction of justice.
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Trump Win; Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump; Crime In Progress; Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President — What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know; Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
The IG report says that, according to Crossfire Hurricane case agents, the September 15 meetings that it describes involved an attempt to recreate the conditions of an earlier meeting between Papadopoulos and an FFG (Friendly Foreign Government) official in which they said Papadopoulos had made comments about Russian assistance to the Trump ...