Trump's team had repaid Russia by sidelining Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue and questioning NATO's commitments in the Baltics. The source says that Russia hacked the DNC and leaked the files to WikiLeaks to maintain "plausible deniability." Trump" says there's a "conspiracy" of cooperating between the campaign and Moscow. a month earlier.Ĭlaims: An "ethnic Russian close associate of. It's not clear why Diveykin would make this offer after having already had the opportunity to release that information to Donald Trump Jr. This report suggests that Diveykin offered to release the compromising information on Clinton to Trump's campaign team - an offer that we now know was made before that June meeting in Trump Tower, as well. He denied meeting Sechin or Diveykin last year. Diveykin again raised the compromising material about Clinton with Page.Īnalysis: Page was in Moscow in early July, a trip that was reported at the time. Neither is mentioned in this report from late June, before either set of hacked documents was released via WikiLeaks.Ĭlaims: Trump campaign aide Carter Page met with the chief executive of fossil-fuel giant Rosneft, Igor Sechin, and Kremlin official Igor Diveykin, who American officials believe was in charge of collecting intelligence about the election. (This information is said to be "controlled" by Peskov, per the report.) By this time, hackers believed to be tied to the Russian government had already accessed the Democratic National Commitee (DNC) and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, information that was discussed in later reports. The report also suggests that the compromising information on Clinton was mostly in the form of recordings of comments made while traveling in Russia. The deal collapsed - undercutting the idea that six months later Russia would have claimed to be trying to bolster Trump's efforts in the city. Subsequent reporting, though, indicates that Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen (whose name will come up again) emailed Putin aide Dmitry Peskov (whose name will also come up again) in January of 2016 to ask for help in advancing a project in the capital. The dossier claims a carrot-and-stick approach to keeping Trump in line, with the carrot being those real estate deals and the stick being the "salacious" event. There's no evidence at hand that this cultivation took place, however. It was Agalarov and his son Emin who were later the vehicle for orchestrating a meeting between a Kremlin-backed attorney and Donald Trump Jr. By 2013, he'd partnered with a businessman named Aras Agalarov to host the Miss America pageant in Moscow. In 2011, Trump was flirting with running for president, including by attacking President Barack Obama's nativity.
Report suggests that Trump was offered and declined real-estate deals and that the Russians have compromising information on both Trump and Clinton.Īnalysis: Trump's relationship with Russian interests extends back decades, during which time he might have been contacted by Russian agents. Claims: Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government had sought to "cultivate" Trump for a period of five years (that is, beginning in 2011).
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