Special counsel Robert Mueller identified numerous contacts between U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign officials and Russians. But the evidence didn't rise to the level of a chargeable crime, he said.
Published Thursday, April 18, 2019 7:16PM EDT
The report details other contacts as well, including meetings between the campaign and the Russian ambassador and dealings between Kushner and a Washington-based think-tank with strong Russian ties. And immediately after the November 2016 election, the report says, Russian government officials and prominent Russian businessmen began to make inroads into the new administration, and "the most senior levels of the Russian government encouraged these efforts.
Still, prosecutors "did not identity evidence of a connection between Manafort's sharing polling data and Russia's interference in the election," the report says.Mueller determined interactions between Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Trump campaign officials -- including former Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- in April 2016 and at the 2016 GOP convention were "brief, public, and non-substantive.
Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned after lying about contacts with Kislyak.Trump campaign officials met with Kislyak during the week of the Republican National Convention but those interactions were "brief and non-substantive."
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