{"id":27615,"date":"2017-05-19T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27615"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:48:57","slug":"18-new-russian-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/18-new-russian-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"18 New Russian Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the old days, Pence put on his very best pseudo-Christian disguise and lied with pretended piety that there had been absolutely no contacts between the Trump Campaign and Russian operatives. It’s not so easy for him to tell that lie today, because example after example of both Russian contacts and Pence’s lies about them have surfaced. Jonathan Landay just reported eighteen new ones.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election and contacts between Trump\u2019s campaign and Russia. <\/p>\n

Six of the previously undisclosed contacts described to Reuters were phone calls between Sergei Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, and Trump advisers, including Flynn, Trump\u2019s first national security adviser, three current and former officials said. <\/p>\n

Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow<\/a> covered the story in two segments.In the first she sets up the background, as only she can, and expands on Pence’s lies.<\/font><\/p>\n