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A top Russian official tried to set up a video teleconference between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia on the day after Trump’s inauguration, according to a senior FBI agent’s interview notes released on Thursday.
Peter Strzok, at the time a lead FBI agent investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, heard about the attempt to connect Trump and Putin while he and another bureau agent interviewed the president’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, at the White House just days into the new administration
Flynn relayed that he’d gotten the request to arrange a Trump-Putin call from Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador to the U.S., when the two men spoke shortly after Christmas in 2016 as part of a broader conversation covering a range of issues important to the two countries.
U.S. and Russian officials have never confirmed that a conversation took place between Trump and Putin on Jan. 21, 2017, though the White House on Jan. 28 of that year offered a readout of a “congratulatory call” from the Russian leader that happened that day.
Flynn also told the FBI agents about the origins of his relationship with senior Russian officials, which began in 2013, when he was Obama’s defense intelligence chief. At the time, Flynn said, he was invited to the headquarters of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, for a “leadership development” program. Flynn met the head of the GRU, Igor Sergun, on that trip and kept in touch with him afterward, but their relationship abruptly ended when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.
Flynn told the FBI agents that he and Sergun had “common ground” — both discussed their experiences in military conflict, and both had sons of about the same age. Flynn called Kislyak in early 2016 to express condolences when Sergun died in Lebanon.
In his FBI interview, Flynn also recalled that his second trip to Russia came in late 2015, when he was famously invited to a gala hosted by RT, a Russian media outlet. Pictures of the event show that he was seated at the same table as Putin. Flynn told agents that he and his son paid a visit to Kislyak around the time of this trip as a courtesy — and he noted that he had received a “threat briefing” from the Defense Intelligence Agency before attending.
Can anyone say witness tampering?
Obstruction of justice?
Disbarred???
This is Trumps lawyer, so how culpable is Trump himself if someone who works for him engages in blatantly illegal activity on Trump’s behalf?
People should really listen to the tape. Come for the witness intimidation and obstruction, stay to hear what a walking heart-attack-waiting-to-happen sounds like. You can actually hear Dowd get older and fatter as the call goes on.
A tape of Trump’s lawyer obstructing justice and this is post #7. This is where we are. Obvious corruption is barely news.