Bipartisan Senate report
describes 2016 Trump campaign
eager to accept help from foreign power
Aug 18 2020, NBC NEWS
The committee endorsed the view of special counsel Robert Mueller and
the Roger Stone prosecution team that the Trump campaign
eagerly embraced Russian help in 2016, and considered the
hacked emails its “October surprise” even though campaign officials
knew the material was stolen by Russian intelligence.
“While the GRU and WikiLeaks were releasing hacked documents,
the Trump Campaign sought to maximize the impact of those
materials to aid Trump’s electoral prospects,” the report says.
The Senate report, the most detailed account to date of the Trump
campaign’s embrace of Russian election interference, also asserts
that the allegations that Ukraine interfered in the election — which
President Donald Trump perpetuated —
originated with Russian intelligence agencies.
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