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Special counsel asks White House to save Trump Jr., Russian meeting documents

EghtesadOnline: The special counsel investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia has asked White House officials to preserve any records of a meeting last year between the president's eldest son and a Russian lawyer, according to a source with knowledge of the request.
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Publish Date:22/July/2017 | 04:42

Attorney General Sessions defends reply on Russia contacts

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday defended his conduct at a January confirmation hearing where he denied having contacts with Russian officials during the course of the presidential campaign when he was an adviser to Donald Trump.
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Publish Date:07/March/2017 | 05:58

Sessions Met Twice With Russian Envoy During Trump Campaign

EghtesadOnline: Attorney General Jeff Sessions had conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. while he was a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump’s election campaign, even though he said during his confirmation hearing that no contacts had occurred, the Justice Department confirmed late Wednesday.
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Publish Date:02/March/2017 | 10:03

Tech investor Thiel to donate $1.25 million to Trump campaign

EghtesadOnline: Silicon Valley heavyweight Peter Thiel will give $1.25 million as his first donation in support of Donald Trump's campaign after endorsing the U.S. Republican presidential candidate earlier this year, a spokesman for the investor said on Sunday.
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Publish Date:17/October/2016 | 07:55

Trump Campaign’s Foreign-Policy Team Is Under Mueller’s Microscope

EghtesadOnline: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is continuing his interviews with White House staff this month, where a key topic are the connections emanating from a little-known foreign policy lightweight who served as an unpaid campaign aide -- George Papadopoulos.
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Publish Date:15/November/2017 | 13:26

Cyprus Gave Manafort’s Bank Records to Mueller Team, Sources Say

EghtesadOnline: Authorities in Cyprus handed over bank and company records to U.S. investigators late last week related to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates, just before they were indicted in the U.S., according to people familiar with the probe.
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Publish Date:04/November/2017 | 24:12

Facebook ‘Embeds’ Advised Trump’s Campaign, Digital Director Says

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc.’s platform was a crucial messaging tool for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to the campaign’s digital director -- who told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he hand-picked pro-Trump “embeds” from the company to help him use the platform in targeted ways.
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Publish Date:08/October/2017 | 07:57

Billionaire Ally of Putin Socialized With Kushner, Ivanka Trump

EghtesadOnline: As federal investigators probe possible Kremlin links with the Donald Trump campaign , one connection that hasn’t gotten much attention is that between Jared Kushner and one of Russia’s most powerful and influential billionaires: Roman Abramovich.
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Publish Date:20/August/2017 | 07:09

Trump Ready to Shake Things Up as Russia Investigations Grind On

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump is planning to shake up his legal team and is also evaluating options for his communications shop as the FBI and congressional investigations into his campaign’s possible ties to Russia heat up.
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Publish Date:17/July/2017 | 06:00

Trump Campaign Paid $50,000 to Firm Now Representing Son

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s campaign committee paid $50,000 in late June to the law firm now representing Donald Trump Jr. in the matter of a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer while seeking damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Publish Date:16/July/2017 | 04:38

Senator on Russia Intervention Probe: 'Never Seen So Much Smoke'

EghtesadOnline: Given the numerous threads involved in investigating Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. election and possible connections to President Donald Trump’s campaign, wrapping up the Senate’s probe by year-end is “aspirational,” a top Democratic senator said.
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Publish Date:02/July/2017 | 07:45

Sessions Calls Notion He Colluded With Russia a 'Detestable Lie'

EghtesadOnline: Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he never spoke with Russian officials concerning “any type of interference” with the 2016 presidential campaign and called any suggestion he colluded with Russia during the election an “appalling and detestable lie.”
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Publish Date:14/June/2017 | 06:19

NY Times says Trump campaign had repeated contact with Russian intelligence

EghtesadOnline: Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing four current and former U.S. officials.
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Publish Date:15/February/2017 | 05:29

Trump campaign signals possible shift on immigration stance

EghtesadOnline: A senior aide to U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump signaled a possible shift in his hardline immigration policies on Sunday, saying his plans to deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally were under review.
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Publish Date:22/August/2016 | 09:23

Trump campaign manager Manafort quits after troubled stretch

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump's U.S. presidential campaign sealed a major staff reshuffle with the resignation on Friday of its campaign chairman, and the Republican nominee tried to end weeks of upheaval to focus on beating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
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Publish Date:20/August/2016 | 09:03