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The 35-page ] contains a number of ]s, some of which are currently unverified and others for which possible verification is classified.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/comey-steele-trump-russia-dossier-will-be-verified-2017-6|title=Comey hinted that Trump-Russia dossier will be verified|last=Berke|first=Jeremy|date=June 8, 2017|work=Business Insider|accessdate=22 January 2018}}</ref> Natasha Bertrand has stated that it "alleges serious misconduct and conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia's government", and that, quoting the dossier, the "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between and the Russian leadership was managed on the Trump side by the Republican candidate's campaign manager, Paul Manafort."<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=The timeline of Trump's ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct | website=Business Insider | date=February 11, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-russia-ties-michael-flynn-dossier-2017-2 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> |
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The allegations can be grouped into several main allegation themes. There are a number of allegations which received little or no attention in reliable sources, and they are not listed here. |
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] has repeatedly denied the allegations, labeling the dossier as a "witch hunt", "discredited", "debunked", "fictitious", and "fake news".<ref name="Breuninger_1/13/2018">{{cite web | last=Breuninger | first=Kevin | title=Fusion GPS testimony on infamous dossier shines new light on Trump's perilous financial ties | website=CNBC | date=January 13, 2018 | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/13/trump-dossier-testimony-financial-ties.html | access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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=== Cultivation, conspiracy, and cooperation === |
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* That Russia has been "cultivating, supporting and assisting" Trump for at least five years.<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017">{{cite web | last=Withnall | first=Adam | last2=Sengupta | first2=Kim | title=The 10 key Donald Trump allegations from the classified Russia memos | website=The Independent | date=January 12, 2017 | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-10-allegations-dossier-kremlin-michael-cohen-sex-claims-intelligence-reports-a7522056.html | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017">{{cite web | last=Sumter | first=Kyler | title=The five most interesting claims in the Donald Trump dossier | website=The Week UK | date=November 16, 2017 | url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/89760/the-five-most-interesting-claims-in-the-donald-trump-dossier | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Harding_11/15/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=How Trump walked into Putin's web | website=The Guardian | date=November 15, 2017 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Price_12/21/2017">{{cite web | last=Price | first=Greg | date=December 21, 2017 | title=What's True in the Trump 'Golden Shower' Dossier? Salacious Report Dogged President Throughout 2017 | website=Newsweek | url=http://www.newsweek.com/trump-golden-shower-dossier-russia-755831 | access-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref> |
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:: Although the dossier alleges (in June 2016) that the Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for "at least five years", they had been interested in him since his first visit to Russia in 1987. ] asserts that: "The top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB... The spy chief <nowiki>]<nowiki>]</nowiki> wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans." Harding then gives a detailed description of the process of cultivation used by the KGB. He posits that the KGB may have opened a file on Trump as early as 1977, when he married ] ('']'' Zelníčková), and that they were closely observed and analyzed from that time on.<ref name="Harding_11/19/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=The Hidden History of Trump's First Trip to Moscow | website=Politico Magazine | date=November 19, 2017 | url=http://politi.co/2zRrRvK | access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Harding_Collusion">{{cite book | last=Harding |first=Luke | title=Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win | publisher=Vintage | year=2017 | isbn=978-0525562511}}</ref> |
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* That a "regular exchange between Mr Trump surrogates and Kremlin actually dates back eight years."<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Wood_3/30/2017">{{cite web | last=Wood | first=Paul | title=Trump Russia dossier key claim 'verified' | website=BBC News | date=March 30, 2017 | url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786 | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/> |
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* That there was a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between and the Russian leadership"<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/><ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018">{{cite web | last1=Yglesias | first1=Matthew | last2=Prokop | first2=Andrew | title=The Steele dossier on Trump and Russia, explained | website=Vox | date=January 5, 2018 | url=https://www.vox.com/2018/1/5/16845704/steele-dossier-russia-trump | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref> to ] to Clinton's detriment.<ref name="Borger_10/7/2017">{{cite web | last=Borger | first=Julian | title=The Trump-Russia dossier: why its findings grow more significant by the day | website=The Guardian | date=October 7, 2017 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/07/trump-russia-steele-dossier-moscow | access-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref> |
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=== Key roles of Manafort, Cohen, and Page === |
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* That Trump's ], ], had "managed" the "well-developed conspiracy of cooperation",<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/> and that he used "Carter Page and others as intermediaries" between the campaign and high-level Kremlin officials.<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Explosive memos suggest that a Trump-Russia quid pro quo was at the heart of the GOP's dramatic shift on Ukraine | website=Business Insider | date=January 15, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-gop-policy-ukraine-wikileaks-dnc-2017-1 | access-date=January 20, 2018 | quote=<p>'''Quote''': So this change on Ukraine definitely came from Trump staffers — not from RNC staffers.}}</ref> |
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* That Trump's personal lawyer, ], played a critical role in the Trump–Russia relationship<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/> by arranging ]s and deniable cash payments.<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017"/> |
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* That Trump's ] adviser, ], was involved in plans regarding the ],<ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/> plotting the ] with Russian agents and Trump's team,<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/> and arranging an $11 billion '']'' deal for Trump with ] oil company.<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/><ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_11/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Carter Page's testimony is filled with bombshells - and supports key portions of the Steele dossier | website=Business Insider | date=November 6, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-congressional-testimony-transcript-steele-dossier-2017-11 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> |
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=== Why Kremlin backed Trump and opposed Clinton === |
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* That Russia supported Trump because he was "viewed as divisive in disrupting the whole US political system"<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/> and to "sow discord and disunity within the U.S. and the West".<ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Sipher | first=John | title=What exactly does the Steele dirty Russian dossier on Trump contain? | website=Newsweek | date=September 6, 2017 | url=http://www.newsweek.com/what-exactly-does-steele-dirty-russian-pee-tape-dossier-trump-contain-660327 | access-date=January 20, 2018}}</ref> |
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:: According to Aiko Stevenson, some of Trump's actions seem to align with "Putin’s wish list", which "includes lifting sanctions on Russia, turning a blind eye towards its aggressive efforts in the Ukraine, and creating a divisive rift amongst western allies." Trump has "called Nato, the centrepiece of Transatlantic security 'obsolete', championed the disintegration of the EU, and said that he is open to lifting sanctions on Moscow."<ref name="Stevenson_1/18/2017">{{cite web | last=Stevenson | first=Aiko | title=President Trump: The Manchurian Candidate? | website=HuffPost | date=January 18, 2017 | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aiko-stevenson/president-trump-the-manchurian-candidate_b_14236674.html | access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref> |
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* That ] was "motivated by fear and hatred" of ].<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017"/><ref name="Satter_6/12/2017">{{cite web | last=Satter | first=David | title=From Russia With Chaos | website=The Wall Street Journal | date=June 12, 2017 | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-russia-with-chaos-1497307398 | access-date=January 20, 2018}}</ref> |
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=== Kompromat on Trump and Clinton === |
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* That ] exists on Trump in the form of ]able behavior.<ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/> Harding has posited that the collection of kompromat on Trump could have started as early as 1977.<ref name="Harding_11/19/2017"/><ref name="Harding_Collusion"/> |
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* That Putin ordered the keeping of a secret ] on Hillary Clinton. It dated back to the time of the ] and was comprised mainly of ] conversations, some from ] and others from ]. It did not contain "details/evidence of unorthodox or embarrassing behavior", but focused more on "things she had said which contradicted her current positions on various issues". It had been collated by the FSB<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Corn_10/31/2016">{{cite web | last=Corn | first=David | date=October 31, 2016 | title=A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump | website=Mother Jones | url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/ | access-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref> and was managed by ], Putin's ].<ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/> |
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=== Blackmailable behavior by Trump === |
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* That Trump was compromised with the blackmailable<ref name="Bertrand_11/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Trump's bodyguard's testimony raises new questions about the most salacious allegations in the dossier | website=Business Insider | date=November 10, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/house-intelligence-asks-trump-bodyguard-about-moscow-prostitutes-allegation-2017-11 | access-date=January 14, 2018}}</ref> acts of paying ]s and engaging in "perverted sexual acts" in Russia.<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Harding_11/15/2017"/><ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/><ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/><ref name="Whitaker_11/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Whitaker | first=Morgan | title=Trump's bodyguard's testimony raises new questions about salacious allegations in the Russia dossier | website=AOL.com | date=November 11, 2017 | url=https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/11/trumps-bodyguards-testimony-raises-new-questions-about-the-most-salacious-allegations-in-the-dossier/23274380/ | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Harding_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=What we know – and what's true – about the Trump-Russia dossier | website=The Guardian | date=January 11, 2017 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/trump-russia-dossier-explainer-details | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> |
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* That Trump "hated"<ref name="Smothers_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Smothers | first=Hannah | title=Detailed Reports Allege President-Elect Donald Trump Hired Prostitutes to Pee on a Hotel Bed | website=Cosmopolitan | date=January 10, 2017 | url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8584701/reports-allege-trump-hired-prostitutes-golden-showers/ | access-date=January 20, 2018}}</ref> ] so much that he hired the ] of the ] in Moscow and had prostitutes perform a "]" show in front of him<ref name="Price_12/21/2017"/><ref name="Stein_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Stein | first=Jeff | title=Trump, Russian spies and the infamous 'golden shower memos' | website=Newsweek | date=January 10, 2017 | url=http://www.newsweek.com/trump-russian-spies-infamous-golden-shower-memos-541315 | access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref> in order to defile the bed used by President and Mrs. Obama on a previous visit. The incident was reportedly secretly ] by the ]<ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/> for potential blackmail.<ref name="Parfitt_1/12/2017">{{cite web | last=Parfitt | first=Tom | title=Putin spies ‘taped Trump sex game with prostitutes’ | website=The Sunday Times | date=January 12, 2017 | url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-spies-taped-trump-sex-game-with-prostitutes-lmk85vncx | access-date=January 21, 2018}}</ref> |
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* That "our separate sources also described 'unorthodox' and embarrassing behavior by Trump over the years" that could be used for blackmail.<ref name="Sipher_9/6/2017"/> |
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* That Trump had explored the real estate sectors in St Petersburg and Moscow, "but in the end Trump had had to settle for the use of extensive sexual services there from local prostitutes rather than business success".<ref name="Parfitt_1/12/2017"/> |
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=== Activated blackmail threat === |
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* That the Kremlin has enough "embarrassing material" (kompromat) on Trump "to be able to blackmail him if they so wished", but it has "promised not to use 'kompromat'...as leverage, given high levels of voluntary co-operation forthcoming from his team".<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Harding_Collusion"/> |
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:: It was because ] believed that Trump was actually being blackmailed that he became "very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat". This concern led him to go to the FBI with his initial findings in early July 2016.<ref name="LaFraniere_Mazzetti_Apuzzo_12/30/2017">{{cite web | last=LaFraniere | first=Sharon | last2=Mazzetti | first2=Mark | last3=Apuzzo | first3=Matt | title=How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt | website=The New York Times | date=December 30, 2017 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html | access-date=January 21, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="Herb_Raju_Cohen_1/10/2018">{{cite web | last=Herb | first=Jeremy | last2=Raju | first2=Manu | last3=Cohen | first3=Marshall | title=Fusion co-founder: Dossier author feared Trump was being blackmailed | website=CNN | date=January 10, 2018 | url=http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/politics/feinstein-releases-glenn-simpson-transcript/index.html | access-date=January 21, 2018 | quote=<p>'''Quote''': Chris said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and said he wanted to -- he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government about this information," Simpson said. "He thought from his perspective there was an issue -- a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. }}</ref> |
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:: Luke Harding states that "Steele was shocked by the extent of collusion his sources were reporting." Steele told friends: "For anyone who reads it, this is a life-changing experience."<ref name="Borger_11/15/2017">{{cite web | last=Borger | first=Julian | title=Christopher Steele believes his dossier on Trump-Russia is 70-90% accurate | website=The Guardian | date=November 15, 2017 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/christopher-steele-trump-russia-dossier-accurate | access-date=January 22, 2018}}</ref> He felt that what he had unearthed "was something of huge significance, way above party politics".<ref name="Blum_3/30/2017">{{cite web | last=Blum | first=Howard | title=How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier | website=Vanity Fair | date=March 30, 2017 | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> Howard Blum described Steele's rationale for becoming a ]: "The greater good trumps all other concerns."<ref name="Blum_3/30/2017"/> Steele was so "alarmed" by his findings, that he showed them to FBI agents in Rome in early July. Their reaction was "shock and horror".<ref name="Kessler_1/9/2018">{{cite web | last=Kessler | first=Glenn | title=What you need to know about Christopher Steele, the FBI and the Trump ‘dossier’ | website=The Washington Post | date=January 9, 2018 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-christopher-steele-the-fbi-and-the-dossier/ | access-date=January 22, 2018}}</ref> |
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:: ] of ] later revealed that "Steele severed his contacts with the FBI before the election following disclosures that the bureau’s inquiry had found no connection between Trump campaign and Russia and concerns that it was being 'manipulated for political ends by the Trump people'."<ref name="Jalonick_1/9/2018">{{cite web | last=Jalonick | first=Mary | title=Democratic report warns of Russian meddling in Europe, US | website=The Washington Post | date=January 9, 2018 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/author-of-trump-dossier-had-concerns-about-russian-blackmail/2018/01/09/a893fce2-f5a0-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html | access-date=January 22, 2018}}</ref> |
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=== DNC email hack === |
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{{seealso|Democratic National Committee cyber attacks|2016 Democratic National Committee email leak}} |
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* That "Trump's team secretly plotted the DNC hack with Russian agents", and that ], ], ], and ] "were involved in the conspiracy".<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Harding | first=Luke | title=What do we know about alleged links between Trump and Russia? | website=The Guardian | date=May 10, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/10/qa-what-we-know-about-alleged-links-between-trump-and-russia | access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> |
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* That the operation had been done with the full knowledge and support of Trump and senior members of his campaign team.<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> |
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* That Russia was responsible for the DNC email hacks<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_11/17/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Kushner received emails from Sergei Millian - an alleged dossier source who was in touch with George Papadopoulos | website=Business Insider | date=November 17, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-emails-sergei-millian-dossier-papadopoulous-russia-2017-11 | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Blum_3/30/2017"/> and the recent appearance of the stolen DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks.<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Harding_Collusion"/> The reason for using WikiLeaks was "]".<ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Mueller reportedly interviewed the author of the Trump-Russia dossier - here's what it alleges, and how it aligned with reality | website=Business Insider | date=October 6, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-dossier-russia-timeline-2017-10 | access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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* That Trump's foreign policy adviser ] had "conceived and promoted" the idea that the DNC emails to WikiLeaks should be leaked during the Democratic convention, “to swing supporters of Bernie Sanders away from Hillary Clinton and across to Trump".<ref name="Yglesias_Prokop_1/5/2018"/> |
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* That "Trump literally paid for them with his foreign policy platform"<ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017">{{cite web | last=Weindling | first=Jacob | title=The 31 Most Explosive Allegations against Trump from the Leaked Intelligence Document | website=Paste Magazine | date=January 11, 2017 | url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/the-31-most-explosive-allegations-against-trump-fr.html | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> by dropping "Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue".<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> |
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* That the hacking of the DNC servers was performed by Romanian hackers ultimately controlled by Putin and paid by both Trump and Putin.<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017">{{cite web |last=Borger | first=Julian | title=UK was given details of alleged contacts between Trump campaign and Moscow | website=The Guardian | date=April 28, 2017 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin | access-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> |
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* That Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had a secret meeting with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016,<ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Cormier_5/5/2017"/><ref name="Gray_1/10/2017">{{cite web | last=Gray | first=Rosie | title=Michael Cohen: 'It Is Fake News Meant to Malign Mr. Trump' | website=The Atlantic | date=January 10, 2017 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/michael-cohen-it-is-fake-news-meant-to-malign-mr-trump/512762/ | access-date=December 24, 2017 | quote=<p>'''Quote''': I'm telling you emphatically that I've not been to Prague, I've never been to Czech , I've not been to Russia. }}</ref> where he arranged "deniable cash payments" to the hackers and sought "to cover up all traces of the hacking operation",<ref name="Harding_5/10/2017"/><ref name="Borger_4/28/2017"/> as well as "cover up ties between Trump and Russia, including Manafort's involvement in Ukraine".<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/> Trump and Cohen have denied the allegations.<ref name="Cormier_5/5/2017">{{cite web | last=Cormier | first=Anthony | title=This Is The Inside Of Trump's Lawyer's Passport | website=BuzzFeed | date=May 5, 2017 | url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trumps-lawyer-showed-you-the-cover-of-his-passport-heres | access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> Cohen said that between August 23 and August 29 he was in ] and in New York for the entire month of September.<ref name="Gray_1/10/2017"/> There is no record of him entering Prague by plane, but he could have entered by car or train from a neighboring country in the ].<ref name="RFE/RL_1/11/2017">{{cite web | author=RFE/RL | title=Report: Czech Intelligence Says No Evidence Trump Lawyer Traveled To Prague | website=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty | date=January 11, 2017 | url=https://www.rferl.org/a/czech-intelligence-trump-lawyer-prague-meeting/28226228.html | access-date=January 19, 2018 | quote=<p>'''Quote''': According to ], 'A Czech intelligence source told the '']'' magazine that there is no record of Cohen arriving in Prague by plane, although the news weekly pointed out he could have traveled by car or train from a nearby EU country, avoiding passport control under ] travel rules.' }}</ref> |
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=== Kickbacks and ''quid pro quo'' agreements === |
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* That former Ukrainian President ], who had requested Russian military intervention in Ukraine before he fled to Russia in 2014, told Putin he had been making supposedly "untraceable"<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/> "] payments" to Paul Manafort, who was Trump's campaign manager at the time.<ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> |
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* That the Trump campaign engaged in a "Ukraine-WikiLeaks '']''" agreement<ref name="Bertrand_1/15/2017"/> "to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue" in exchange for Russia leaking the stolen DNC emails to WikiLeaks.<ref name="Sumter_11/16/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_10/6/2017"/> |
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* That Trump's foreign-policy adviser, ], arranged a ''quid pro quo'' deal<ref name="Mowatt-Larssen_6/20/2017">{{cite web | last=Mowatt-Larssen | first=Rolf | title=Have the Russians compromised Trump? | website=Newsweek | date=June 20, 2017 | url=http://www.newsweek.com/have-russians-compromised-trump-627620 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> in which the Trump administration<ref name="Roazen_2/21/2017">{{cite web | last=Roazen | first=Ben | title=What Else Does the Donald Trump–Russia Dossier Tell Us? | website=GQ | date=February 21, 2017 | url=https://www.gq.com/story/trump-russia-dossier-matryoshka | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref> would get a 19% stake (ca. $11 billion) in ] oil company in exchange for Trump lifting the ]<ref name="Bertrand_11/6/2017"/><ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/> on Russia after his election. Page confirmed, on Trump's "full authority", that this was Trump's intent.<ref name="Bertrand_2/11/2017"/><ref name="Withnall_Sengupta_1/12/2017"/><ref name="Bertrand_1/27/2017">{{cite web | last=Bertrand | first=Natasha | title=Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted | website=Business Insider | date=January 27, 2017 | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/carter-page-trump-russia-igor-sechin-dossier-2017-1 | access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Tracy_11/7/2017">{{cite web | last=Tracy | first=Abigail | date=November 7, 2017 | title=Is Carter Page Digging the Trump Administration's Grave? Three things the former campaign adviser revealed to Congress that should scare the White House. | website=Vanity Fair | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/carter-page-hearing-donald-trump-russia | access-date=December 29, 2017 }}</ref> |
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:: This deal has been described by Rolf Mowatt-Larssen in '']'' as a '']'' deal that "colloquially, if not in the legal sense,... is called treason".<ref name="Mowatt-Larssen_6/20/2017"/> |
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:: In '']'', Jacob Weindling described this deal as a "potential scandal so big, words don't exist to convey it." He further stated: "I want to take a moment to stress this potential revelation. In exchange for dropping sanctions that were levied for invading an ally , the president of the United States would receive a personal stake in a Russian oil company. Treason doesn't even begin to describe it."<ref name="Weindling_1/11/2017"/> |
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* {{cite journal|last= Harding |first= Luke |authorlink= Luke Harding |title= The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow |date= 2017-11-19 |type= an excerpt of his book ''Collusion'' |journal= ] |url= https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842}} |
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