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Steele Dossier
![CONFIDENTIAL/SENS CONFIDENTIAL/SENS VE SOURCE disunity both within the US itself, but more especially within the Transatlantic alliance which was viewed as inimical to Russia's Source C, a senior Russian financial official said the TRUMP operatio rests. COMPANY INTELLIGENCE REPORT 2016/080 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP'S ACTIVITIES IN RUSSIA AND C KREMLIN hould be seen in terms of PUTIN's desire to return to Nineteern Century 'Great Power' politics anchored upon countries' interests rather than the ideals-based internation Two. S/he had overheard PUTIN talking in this way to close associates on several occa rder established after World Wa OMPROMISING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE In terms of specifics, Source A confided that the Kremlin had been feeding TRUMP and his team valuable intelligence on his o Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, for several years (see more below). This was confirmed by Source D, a close associate of 2. TRUMP who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow, and n cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP fo orsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and orte e 2016, that this Russian intelligence had been s in western alliarn operation on TRUMP also had comprised offering him various lucrative real estate developme business deals in Russia, especially in relation to the ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament. However, so far, for reasons unknown, TRUMP So far TRUMP has declined various swe intelligence from the Kremlin, i However, there were other aspects to TRUMP's engagement with the Russian authorities. One which had borne fruit for them was to exploit TRUMP's personal obsessions and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable 'kompromat' (compromising material) on him. 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Source E Source F, a female staffer at the hotel when TRUMP had stayed there, who also confirmed the story. Speaking separately in June 2016, Source B (the former top level Russian intelliger 1. Speaking to a trusted compatriot in June 2016 sources A and B, a senior sserted that TRUMP's sian Foreign M officer still active inside the Kremlin respectively, the Russian orthodox behavior in Russia over the years had provided the ger uthorities there with enough embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so ng a presidential candidate, Donald TRUMP asserted that the TRUMP operation was both supported and directed by Ru Source B n President Vladimir PUTIN. Its aim was to sow discord and wished Asked about the Kremlin's reported in recent years and rumo intellgence feed to 5. lligence feed to TRUMP over CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE Hillary CLINTON (being circulated), Source B confirmed the file COMPANY INTELLIGENCE REPORT 2016/086 t had been coll various sorts rather than details/evid embarrassing behavior. Some of the conversations were from bugged omments CLINTON had ma RUSSIA/CYBER CRIME: A SYNOPSIS OF RUSSIAN STATE SPONSORED AND OTHER CYBER OFFENSIVE (CRIMINAL) OPERATIONS various trips to Ru current pos issues. Others were most prob Krem tha t the CLINTON dossier was controlled exclusively by chief Kremli state-s as responsi nts The ssier however had not as ns, especially banks. FSB leads on cyber within Rus apparatus. Limited success in attacking top foreign targets like G7 governments, security services and IFls but much more on second tier ones through IT back doors, using corporate and other visitors to Russia s regard 20 June 2016 FSB often uses coercion and blackmail to recruit most capable cyber operatives in Russia into its state-sponsored programmes. Heavy use also, both wittingly and unwittingly, of CIS emigres working in western · governments e.g. Latvia Example cited of successful Russian cyber operation targeting senior Western business visitor. Provided back door into important Western - Problems however for Ru held by CBR in 2015, comprising Roubles several bill Some details given of leading non-state Russian cyber criminal groups Details onsored offensive cyber oper four categories (in order of priority):-targeting foreign, especially CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/512/014.jpg)
![CONFIDENTIAL/SENS CONFIDENTIAL/SENS VE SOURCE disunity both within the US itself, but more especially within the Transatlantic alliance which was viewed as inimical to Russia's Source C, a senior Russian financial official said the TRUMP operatio rests. COMPANY INTELLIGENCE REPORT 2016/080 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP'S ACTIVITIES IN RUSSIA AND C KREMLIN hould be seen in terms of PUTIN's desire to return to Nineteern Century 'Great Power' politics anchored upon countries' interests rather than the ideals-based internation Two. S/he had overheard PUTIN talking in this way to close associates on several occa rder established after World Wa OMPROMISING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE In terms of specifics, Source A confided that the Kremlin had been feeding TRUMP and his team valuable intelligence on his o Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, for several years (see more below). This was confirmed by Source D, a close associate of 2. TRUMP who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow, and n cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP fo orsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and orte e 2016, that this Russian intelligence had been s in western alliarn operation on TRUMP also had comprised offering him various lucrative real estate developme business deals in Russia, especially in relation to the ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament. However, so far, for reasons unknown, TRUMP So far TRUMP has declined various swe intelligence from the Kremlin, i However, there were other aspects to TRUMP's engagement with the Russian authorities. One which had borne fruit for them was to exploit TRUMP's personal obsessions and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable 'kompromat' (compromising material) on him. According to Source D, where s/he had been present, TRUMP's (perverted) conduct in Moscow included hiring the presidential where he knew President and Mrs OBAMA (whom he hated) had stayed 3. comprom TRUMP through his activities in Moscow suffici blackmail him. According to several knowledgeable urces, his conduct f the Ritz Carlton Hotel arranged/monitored by the FSB one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had lept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a·golden showers ow in front of him. The hotel was known to be u f compromising materia n Hillary CLINTON has been collated ses ntrol with microph nd concealed cameras in all the main rooms r is controlled by Kremlin spokesman, PESKOV, directly on PUTIN's orders. However it has not as yet been distributed abroad, including to TRUMP. Russia to confirmed by Source E for its deployment still uncedr everal of the and subsequently. S/he believed it had happened in 2013. Source E Source F, a female staffer at the hotel when TRUMP had stayed there, who also confirmed the story. Speaking separately in June 2016, Source B (the former top level Russian intelliger 1. Speaking to a trusted compatriot in June 2016 sources A and B, a senior sserted that TRUMP's sian Foreign M officer still active inside the Kremlin respectively, the Russian orthodox behavior in Russia over the years had provided the ger uthorities there with enough embarrassing material on the now Republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so ng a presidential candidate, Donald TRUMP asserted that the TRUMP operation was both supported and directed by Ru Source B n President Vladimir PUTIN. Its aim was to sow discord and wished Asked about the Kremlin's reported in recent years and rumo intellgence feed to 5. lligence feed to TRUMP over CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE Hillary CLINTON (being circulated), Source B confirmed the file COMPANY INTELLIGENCE REPORT 2016/086 t had been coll various sorts rather than details/evid embarrassing behavior. Some of the conversations were from bugged omments CLINTON had ma RUSSIA/CYBER CRIME: A SYNOPSIS OF RUSSIAN STATE SPONSORED AND OTHER CYBER OFFENSIVE (CRIMINAL) OPERATIONS various trips to Ru current pos issues. Others were most prob Krem tha t the CLINTON dossier was controlled exclusively by chief Kremli state-s as responsi nts The ssier however had not as ns, especially banks. FSB leads on cyber within Rus apparatus. Limited success in attacking top foreign targets like G7 governments, security services and IFls but much more on second tier ones through IT back doors, using corporate and other visitors to Russia s regard 20 June 2016 FSB often uses coercion and blackmail to recruit most capable cyber operatives in Russia into its state-sponsored programmes. Heavy use also, both wittingly and unwittingly, of CIS emigres working in western · governments e.g. Latvia Example cited of successful Russian cyber operation targeting senior Western business visitor. Provided back door into important Western - Problems however for Ru held by CBR in 2015, comprising Roubles several bill Some details given of leading non-state Russian cyber criminal groups Details onsored offensive cyber oper four categories (in order of priority):-targeting foreign, especially CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVE SOURCE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/512/014.jpg)
Russiagate
"Among a number of e-mails"
!["I confirm that among a number of emails one from Mr. Michael Cohen came to us. This indeed happened," said Dmitry Peskov, a personal spokesman for Putin, during a telephone briefing with Russian and foreign journalists. "But as far as we don't respond to business topics, this is not our job, we did not send a response."](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/509/cbe.jpg)
!["I confirm that among a number of emails one from Mr. Michael Cohen came to us. This indeed happened," said Dmitry Peskov, a personal spokesman for Putin, during a telephone briefing with Russian and foreign journalists. "But as far as we don't respond to business topics, this is not our job, we did not send a response."](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/509/cbe.jpg)
Russiagate
Operation Bonnie and Clyde
![[613] Operation Bonnie And Clyde Anonymous ID: BrjHZMUy Fri 19 May 2017 18:36:12 No.126195317 View Reply Original Report Quoted By >>126196007 We have until the time Trump returns to DC to totally discredit the Russia peddlers pictured They are on the ropes today with Mensch deleting tweets and apologizing for false news reports she made about Anthony Weiner. Her, Claude Taylor (TrueFactsStated), John Schindler (20committee) and Rick Wilson (TheRickWilson, TheReaganBattalion) along with their paid #NeverTrump shills all nominally call themselves[Republicans but are in fact representatives of the Neoconservative / Deep state #NeverTrump agenda. These are some of the most influential social influencers of normies on the topic of Trump-Russia, having made large parts of it up themselves. So far this is the first time they are all being simultaneously called out as charlatand and forced to defend their lies. It is not going well and that is before /pol/ piles on. End these yellow journalist smear merchants' careers. They literally hate you as much as they hate the President. Anonymous ID: BrjHZMUy Fri 19 May 2017 18:48:57 No. 126196751 Report >>126195846 All we need is concerted effort to sell them as the Alex Jones of the left. in the same ways they have discredited Alex, use those against them](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/508/55e.jpg)
![[613] Operation Bonnie And Clyde Anonymous ID: BrjHZMUy Fri 19 May 2017 18:36:12 No.126195317 View Reply Original Report Quoted By >>126196007 We have until the time Trump returns to DC to totally discredit the Russia peddlers pictured They are on the ropes today with Mensch deleting tweets and apologizing for false news reports she made about Anthony Weiner. Her, Claude Taylor (TrueFactsStated), John Schindler (20committee) and Rick Wilson (TheRickWilson, TheReaganBattalion) along with their paid #NeverTrump shills all nominally call themselves[Republicans but are in fact representatives of the Neoconservative / Deep state #NeverTrump agenda. These are some of the most influential social influencers of normies on the topic of Trump-Russia, having made large parts of it up themselves. So far this is the first time they are all being simultaneously called out as charlatand and forced to defend their lies. It is not going well and that is before /pol/ piles on. End these yellow journalist smear merchants' careers. They literally hate you as much as they hate the President. Anonymous ID: BrjHZMUy Fri 19 May 2017 18:48:57 No. 126196751 Report >>126195846 All we need is concerted effort to sell them as the Alex Jones of the left. in the same ways they have discredited Alex, use those against them](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/508/55e.jpg)
Russiagate
One of dozens of subpoenas
![N .d 99% 4:45 PM WilmerHale, Manafort's other most recent lawyers. WilmerHale is the law firm where Mueller worked before being appointed special counsel. Manafort has not been accused of any wrongdoing Maloni declined to comment. A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment. Laurenza referred questions to a spokesman who didn't immediately comment. The subpoenas are among dozens that the Mueller investigative team has sent out in recent months since taking over the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/504/61c.jpg)
![N .d 99% 4:45 PM WilmerHale, Manafort's other most recent lawyers. WilmerHale is the law firm where Mueller worked before being appointed special counsel. Manafort has not been accused of any wrongdoing Maloni declined to comment. A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment. Laurenza referred questions to a spokesman who didn't immediately comment. The subpoenas are among dozens that the Mueller investigative team has sent out in recent months since taking over the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/504/61c.jpg)
Russiagate
Quite the list
![1. Sometime in 2000, the Russians find the deal Manchurian candidate in Trump: A firebrand with no moral core and susceptible to ncumbent, so the Russians wait to run him for corruption. The failed real estate developer was 2016. Meanwhile, the GOP launches a S25 coming off multiple bankruptcies. Major US banks wouldn't loan to him, so the Russians through Bayrock and other arrangements secure for Trump the capital necessary to remake his image as a business mogul-which was important if the American public were to consider him a viable presidential candidate 4. 2012 wasn't the right year to run Trump for President because Obama was a popular million taxpayer funded smear campaign into Hillary Clinton's private email use-something they knew was allowed-and which they overlooked for Colin Powell, The Russians groom disgruntled former US intelligence officials like Mike Fynn, and send him and othe pro-Kremlin American advisers-Manafort and Page-to assist Trump with the Russian alignment. Moscow needs Trump to win weaken NATO and lift US sanctions on Russia 2. A hit national TV show helps whitewash Trump's image as the great American comeback story, turns him into a celebrity-fame he uses to make hundreds through licensing deals for the now resurgent Trump brand. In the eyes of the public, Trump has turned things around-he's a tycoon, even though he never released his tax returns to prove his net worth. By now, Trump knows none of this wouldve been possible without the Russians. He is now beholden to ther of millions of dollars 5. its 2016. Russians probe voter registration databases in multiple states to see which races they could manipulate, and also hack the DNC and Clinton campaign. They work with Assange who needs a Clinton defeat in order for the FBI to drop its case against Wikileaks-to sway publi opinion against Clinton. They know the one- sided leaks would make the American public fa for the "corrupt Hillary" narrative. even though not a single incriminating email from Clinton is ever found. Meanwhile, US officials brief Trum on Russian involvement in the hacks, but he 3, Russians keep pumping millions into Trump buying up real estate from him at wildly inflated prices, allowing him to build up a hefty cash balance to "self-fund' a presidential campaign· rabdne thai, findinne 6. Trump's son dashes off to Paris one month before the eiection for last minute coordination with the Russians. Trump adviser Roger Stone brags he had direct contact with Wikileaks during the campaign and that an October surprise for Clinton is coming, Meanwhile another Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani instructs his former subordinate and pal FBI Director James Comey to disrupt Clinton's momentum 11 days before the election by getting Comey to vaguely hint the FBI may reopen the email investigation into Clinton, who loses early voters and late-deciders in critical swing states that was in progress at the time of the FBI announcement. Comey subsequently sounds a never mind false alarm hours before the election, but Clinton has already lost hundreds of thousands of votes in critical swing states by this time-as RNC's own internal data reveals. FBI also refuses to investigate Trump advisers Stone, Manafort, Flynn and Page for Russia ties. Trump wins and goes on to appoint pro- Russia crackpots Mike Flynn and KT McFarland EXICO ER s National Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor, respectively, giving Russia a direct conduit to national security decisions at highest levels of US government. PIC COLLAGE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/498/0ec.jpg)
![1. Sometime in 2000, the Russians find the deal Manchurian candidate in Trump: A firebrand with no moral core and susceptible to ncumbent, so the Russians wait to run him for corruption. The failed real estate developer was 2016. Meanwhile, the GOP launches a S25 coming off multiple bankruptcies. Major US banks wouldn't loan to him, so the Russians through Bayrock and other arrangements secure for Trump the capital necessary to remake his image as a business mogul-which was important if the American public were to consider him a viable presidential candidate 4. 2012 wasn't the right year to run Trump for President because Obama was a popular million taxpayer funded smear campaign into Hillary Clinton's private email use-something they knew was allowed-and which they overlooked for Colin Powell, The Russians groom disgruntled former US intelligence officials like Mike Fynn, and send him and othe pro-Kremlin American advisers-Manafort and Page-to assist Trump with the Russian alignment. Moscow needs Trump to win weaken NATO and lift US sanctions on Russia 2. A hit national TV show helps whitewash Trump's image as the great American comeback story, turns him into a celebrity-fame he uses to make hundreds through licensing deals for the now resurgent Trump brand. In the eyes of the public, Trump has turned things around-he's a tycoon, even though he never released his tax returns to prove his net worth. By now, Trump knows none of this wouldve been possible without the Russians. He is now beholden to ther of millions of dollars 5. its 2016. Russians probe voter registration databases in multiple states to see which races they could manipulate, and also hack the DNC and Clinton campaign. They work with Assange who needs a Clinton defeat in order for the FBI to drop its case against Wikileaks-to sway publi opinion against Clinton. They know the one- sided leaks would make the American public fa for the "corrupt Hillary" narrative. even though not a single incriminating email from Clinton is ever found. Meanwhile, US officials brief Trum on Russian involvement in the hacks, but he 3, Russians keep pumping millions into Trump buying up real estate from him at wildly inflated prices, allowing him to build up a hefty cash balance to "self-fund' a presidential campaign· rabdne thai, findinne 6. Trump's son dashes off to Paris one month before the eiection for last minute coordination with the Russians. Trump adviser Roger Stone brags he had direct contact with Wikileaks during the campaign and that an October surprise for Clinton is coming, Meanwhile another Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani instructs his former subordinate and pal FBI Director James Comey to disrupt Clinton's momentum 11 days before the election by getting Comey to vaguely hint the FBI may reopen the email investigation into Clinton, who loses early voters and late-deciders in critical swing states that was in progress at the time of the FBI announcement. Comey subsequently sounds a never mind false alarm hours before the election, but Clinton has already lost hundreds of thousands of votes in critical swing states by this time-as RNC's own internal data reveals. FBI also refuses to investigate Trump advisers Stone, Manafort, Flynn and Page for Russia ties. Trump wins and goes on to appoint pro- Russia crackpots Mike Flynn and KT McFarland EXICO ER s National Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor, respectively, giving Russia a direct conduit to national security decisions at highest levels of US government. PIC COLLAGE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/498/0ec.jpg)
Russiagate
Felix Sater implicates Ivanka Trump
![r. Sater presented himself as so influential in Russia that he helped arrange a 2006 trip that Mr. Trump's daughter, Ivanka, took to Moscow I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin," he said s. Trump said she had no involvement in the discussions about the Moscow deal. In a statement, she said she that during the 2006 trip, she took "a brief tour of Red Square and the Kremlin but I have never met President Vladimir Putin." She did not say whether she sat n his chair The Times reported earlier this year on the plan for a Trump Tower in Moscow, which never materialized. On Sunday, The Washington Post reported the existence of the correspondence between Mr. Sater and Mr. Cohen but not its content.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/491/79d.jpg)
![r. Sater presented himself as so influential in Russia that he helped arrange a 2006 trip that Mr. Trump's daughter, Ivanka, took to Moscow I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin," he said s. Trump said she had no involvement in the discussions about the Moscow deal. In a statement, she said she that during the 2006 trip, she took "a brief tour of Red Square and the Kremlin but I have never met President Vladimir Putin." She did not say whether she sat n his chair The Times reported earlier this year on the plan for a Trump Tower in Moscow, which never materialized. On Sunday, The Washington Post reported the existence of the correspondence between Mr. Sater and Mr. Cohen but not its content.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/491/79d.jpg)
Russiagate
Be careful what you wish for...
![The emails show that, from the earliest months of Mr. Trump's campaign, some of his associate:s viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage. Those ties are now under investigation by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/290/489/882.jpg)
![The emails show that, from the earliest months of Mr. Trump's campaign, some of his associate:s viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage. Those ties are now under investigation by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/290/489/882.jpg)
Russiagate
Get Our Boy Elected
![> Michael I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/289/928/bd3.png)
![> Michael I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/289/928/bd3.png)
Russiagate
Russian sanctions against Rosneft
![(Reuters) - Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo has encountered problems syndicating a loan to Glencore and Qatar's wealth fund to finance their purchase of a stake in the Kremlin-controlled oil major Rosneft because of new U.S. sanctions against Russia Four banking sources told Reuters that Western banks including from the United States and France have so far put on hold their participation in the syndication of the 5.2 billion euro ($6.13 billion) loan that Intesa provided last year. The syndication is stuck because of new U.S sanctions on Russia. The new sanctions are so wide-reaching that they will surely impact all similar deals involving Russian state firms," said a London-based source with a large Western bank invited by Intesa to participate in the syndication With the new sanctions, I expect a lot of troubles with lending to projects led by Russian state firms... And possibly to many private ones," said one of the banking sources.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/288/718/07e.jpg)
![(Reuters) - Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo has encountered problems syndicating a loan to Glencore and Qatar's wealth fund to finance their purchase of a stake in the Kremlin-controlled oil major Rosneft because of new U.S. sanctions against Russia Four banking sources told Reuters that Western banks including from the United States and France have so far put on hold their participation in the syndication of the 5.2 billion euro ($6.13 billion) loan that Intesa provided last year. The syndication is stuck because of new U.S sanctions on Russia. The new sanctions are so wide-reaching that they will surely impact all similar deals involving Russian state firms," said a London-based source with a large Western bank invited by Intesa to participate in the syndication With the new sanctions, I expect a lot of troubles with lending to projects led by Russian state firms... And possibly to many private ones," said one of the banking sources.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/288/718/07e.jpg)
Russiagate
Pompeo testy over Russia
![When asked about Russian election interference, Pompeo often becomes testy and recites talking points that seem designed to appease a president who rejects the allegations as "fake news" conjured by Democrats to delegitimize his election win](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/288/716/b6c.jpg)
![When asked about Russian election interference, Pompeo often becomes testy and recites talking points that seem designed to appease a president who rejects the allegations as "fake news" conjured by Democrats to delegitimize his election win](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/288/716/b6c.jpg)
Russiagate
Concerns over Pompeo
![Pompeo has not impeded that work, officials said. But several officials said there is concern about what he might do if the CIA uncovered new information potentially damaging to Trump and Pompeo were forced to choose between protecting the agency or the president. "People have to watch him," said a U.S. official who, like others, requested anonymity to speak frankly. "It's almost as if he can't resist the impulse to be political." A second former CIA official cited a "real concern for interference and politicization," saying that the worry among some at the agency is "that if you were passing on something too dicey [to Pompeo] he would go to the White House with it."](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/288/715/826.jpg)
![Pompeo has not impeded that work, officials said. But several officials said there is concern about what he might do if the CIA uncovered new information potentially damaging to Trump and Pompeo were forced to choose between protecting the agency or the president. "People have to watch him," said a U.S. official who, like others, requested anonymity to speak frankly. "It's almost as if he can't resist the impulse to be political." A second former CIA official cited a "real concern for interference and politicization," saying that the worry among some at the agency is "that if you were passing on something too dicey [to Pompeo] he would go to the White House with it."](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/288/715/826.jpg)
Russiagate
Rick Dearborn's meeting with Russians
![Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The aide, Rick Dearborn, who is now President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, sent a brief email to campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Thump ofticials with Putin, the sources said. The person was only identified in the email as being from "WV, which one source said was a reference to West Virginia. It's unclear who the individual is, what he or she was seeking, or whether Dearborn even acted on the request. One source said that the individual was believed to have had political connections in West Virginia, but details about the request and who initiated it remain vague.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/288/279/fed.jpg)
![Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The aide, Rick Dearborn, who is now President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, sent a brief email to campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Thump ofticials with Putin, the sources said. The person was only identified in the email as being from "WV, which one source said was a reference to West Virginia. It's unclear who the individual is, what he or she was seeking, or whether Dearborn even acted on the request. One source said that the individual was believed to have had political connections in West Virginia, but details about the request and who initiated it remain vague.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/288/279/fed.jpg)
Russiagate
"It seems he is just always focused on Russia"
![Trump's chewing out of GOP senators, according to people briefed on the calls, reflected the president's frustration that fellow Republicans would make moves that could damage him, particularly on an investigation that he detests. Trump also complained about the Russian sanctions measure in a call with McConnell earlier this month that devolved into shouting. The New York Times first reported that Trump discussed the Russia probe with McConnell. "It seems he is just always focused on Russia," one senior GOP aide said. Since coming into the West Wing, chief of staff John Kelly has tried to curb Trump's unscheduled interactions with legislators, senior administration officials say. Trump has been known to see a senator on TV or think about an issue and immediately ask White House assistant Madeleine Westerhout to dial the senator.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/288/277/c7e.jpg)
![Trump's chewing out of GOP senators, according to people briefed on the calls, reflected the president's frustration that fellow Republicans would make moves that could damage him, particularly on an investigation that he detests. Trump also complained about the Russian sanctions measure in a call with McConnell earlier this month that devolved into shouting. The New York Times first reported that Trump discussed the Russia probe with McConnell. "It seems he is just always focused on Russia," one senior GOP aide said. Since coming into the West Wing, chief of staff John Kelly has tried to curb Trump's unscheduled interactions with legislators, senior administration officials say. Trump has been known to see a senator on TV or think about an issue and immediately ask White House assistant Madeleine Westerhout to dial the senator.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/288/277/c7e.jpg)
Russiagate
Trump furious over Mueller's protections
![Trump dialed up Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Aug. 7, two days before a blunt call with the Senate majority leader that spilled over into a public feud. Tillis is working with Sen. Chris C---- (D-Del.) on a bill designed to protect Robert Mueller, the independent counsel investigating the president's Russia connections, from any attempt by Trump to fire him. The Mueller bill came up during the Tillis-Trump conversation, according to a source briefed on the call the latest signal of the president's impatience with GOP senators' increasing declarations of independence from his White House. Trump was unhappy with the legislation and didn't want it to pass, one person familiar with the call said.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/288/276/986.jpg)
![Trump dialed up Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Aug. 7, two days before a blunt call with the Senate majority leader that spilled over into a public feud. Tillis is working with Sen. Chris C---- (D-Del.) on a bill designed to protect Robert Mueller, the independent counsel investigating the president's Russia connections, from any attempt by Trump to fire him. The Mueller bill came up during the Tillis-Trump conversation, according to a source briefed on the call the latest signal of the president's impatience with GOP senators' increasing declarations of independence from his White House. Trump was unhappy with the legislation and didn't want it to pass, one person familiar with the call said.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/288/276/986.jpg)
Russiagate
Trump angry at Mitch for doing his job
![During the call, which Mr. Trump initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader's refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/287/964/bf4.jpg)
![During the call, which Mr. Trump initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader's refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/287/964/bf4.jpg)
Russiagate
"Mueller found something on him. Oops"
![Mike Cernovich U s @Cernovich Drudge sided w/Jared, but no one close to Bannon thinks Drudge is target. Jared is weak, anyway, cuz Mueller found something on him Oops 8:36 PM 20 Aug 17](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/287/233/377.png)
![Mike Cernovich U s @Cernovich Drudge sided w/Jared, but no one close to Bannon thinks Drudge is target. Jared is weak, anyway, cuz Mueller found something on him Oops 8:36 PM 20 Aug 17](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/287/233/377.png)
Russiagate