Trump's Ongoing Russian Ties Remain A Danger to National Security

“We know Michael Flynn lied about discussing lifting sanctions on Russia, but we don’t know who else in the administration was aware of his potentially illegal conversation.  We know Trump was warned Flynn might be compromised by Russia, so why did Trump gave him access to the most highly classified documents? And why did he as recently as Friday say he was unaware of the ongoing scandal?

“We know this is only the beginning of Trump and his administration’s ties to Russia, that’s why we need an independent investigation of the White House – including what they knew and why they did nothing to protect America’s security.”

Here are just some of Donald Trump and his Administration’s continued ties to Russia and Vladimir Putin:

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• Paul Manafort, Took Cash From Pro-Russian Political Party. According to New York Times, “In addition, criminal prosecutors are investigating a group of offshore shell companies that helped members of Mr. Yanukovych’s inner circle finance their lavish lifestyles, including a palatial presidential residence with a private zoo, golf course and tennis court. Among the hundreds of murky transactions these companies engaged in was an $18 million deal to sell Ukrainian cable television assets to a partnership put together by Mr. Manafort and a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.” [New York Times, 8/14/16]
• Michael Caputo, Worked for Groups Backing Russian Goverment.  According to Washington Post, “An adviser who helped run Trump’s efforts in the New York primary, Michael Caputo, lived in Russia for seven years in the 1990s, working with groups that supported then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Caputo also had a contract for several months in 2000 with the Russian conglomerate Gazprom Media to improve Putin’s image in the United States, damaged after he had taken over a private television station. Caputo declined to comment. He told the Buffalo News, his hometown paper, that he was ‘not proud of the work today. But at the time, Putin wasn’t such a bad guy.’” [Washington Post, 6/17/16]
• Carter Page, Connected to Gazprom. According to Bloomberg, “In 2000, Page took up investment banking, getting a job at Merrill Lynch’s capital-markets group in London. After impressing a colleague with his relationship with Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian billionaire, he says he was dispatched to help open the firm’s Moscow office in 2004.” [Bloomberg, 3/30/16]