Members of President
Donald Trumpās campaign and transition team had more than 100 contacts with Russia-linked operatives between September 2015 and January 2017, according to an
updated report by the
Center for American Progressā Moscow Project.
These contacts reportedly included at least 28 meetings, both in person and over Skype, and involved several prominent members of Trumpās inner circle including the presidentās children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.; his former attorney Michael Cohen; and his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank based in D.C., said Wednesday that it had raised the number of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia-linked operatives to 101 following reports this week that Trumpās former campaign chairman Paul Manafort
shared polling data on the 2016 election with a Russian consultant who had links to Moscowās intelligence agencies.
āThis wasnāt just one email or call, or one this or that,ā Talia Dessel, a research analyst for CAP,
told USA Today of the organizationās findings. āOver 100 contacts is really significant because you donāt just have 100 contacts with a foreign power if thereās nothing going on there.ā
How do you explain this? What other country have they had this kind of contact with? Why Russia of all countries?