trump 2020 election
Hungary's Prime Minister
Viktor Orban and President Donald trump 2020 election in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019. trump
2020 election aides softened GOP platform
on Ukraine Ahead of the 2016 Republican National Convention, trump
2020 election campaign aides blocked language from the
party platform that called for the US government to send lethal weapons to
Ukraine for its war against Russian proxies. Mueller investigated this for
potential collusion but determined the change was not made "at the
behest" of Russia. (The Trump administration ultimately gave lethal arms
and anti-tank weapons to the Ukrainian military.) Images/AFP/Getty
Images President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a
joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki,
on July 16, 2018. Full credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images trump
2020 election made light of Russian
hacking
Throughout the 2016 campaign, trump
2020 election cast doubt on the US government assessment
that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman. At a news conference in July 2016, he even
asked Russia to hack more, saying, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope
you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," trump
2020 election capitalized on Russian
meddling to win
Instead of condemning Russia for hacking and leaking
Democratic emails, trump 2020 election
eagerly capitalized on the Kremlin's meddling, and used the emails to attack
Clinton on a near-daily basis in the final stretch of the campaign. The Mueller
report said trump 2020 election
campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen
and released through Russian efforts" and that top officials believed they
had inside information about WikiLeaks, so they planned a strategy around the
expected release of hacked emails. The Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Department of
Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the Senate Intelligence Committee
all confirmed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. But trump
2020 election has repeatedly rejected this view, and
publicly sided with Putin at the Helsinki summit in 2018, saying he accepted
Putin's denials. trump 2020 election transition undermined Russian sanctions after
the 2016 election, the Trump transition team asked Russia not to retaliate too
strongly against new US sanctions imposed by then-President Barack Obama. The
sanctions were intended to punish Russia for interfering in the election, but
then-Trump aide Michael Flynn asked the Russian ambassador not to escalate the
situation so they could have a good relationship once trump
2020 election took over. Trump
was open to lifting Russian sanctions days before his inauguration,
Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he was open to lifting sanctions on
Russia. He said: "If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why
would anybody have sanctions if somebody's doing some really great
things?" Putin has tried for years to persuade the US and European
countries to end crippling sanctions on Russia's economy.
Bucking other US leaders, trump
2020 election has dismissed credible allegations that
Putin uses violence against his opponents. Trump said in 2015, "I think it
would be despicable if that took place, but I haven't seen any evidence that he
killed anybody, in terms of reporters." Asked again in February 2017,
Trump deflected, saying, "There are a lot of killers. Do you think our
country is so innocent?"
Trump mulled returning spy
bases to Russia
The Washington Post reported in May 2017 that the Trump
administration considered returning two diplomatic compounds to Russia. The
Obama administration expelled Russian diplomats and seized the compounds in New
York and Maryland after the 2016 election, claiming they were used for
"intelligence" purposes. The compounds were never returned to Russia.
Trump gave Russia classified
intelligence
In a shocking move during the early months of his
presidency, Trump shared highly classified intelligence with two senior Russian
officials during an Oval Office meeting in May 2017. The intelligence, which
was about ISIS, was sensitive enough that it could have exposed a vulnerable
source. The unplanned disclosure by Trump rattled even many of his Republican
allies.
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