Trump met with Russian Ambassador during election campaign

His pattern has become obvious. “I never said this!” “I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia-from a position of strength only-is possible, absolutely possible”, Trump said during his speech later.

However, Sessions said: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians”.

Over the weekend, Trump called for a Congressional investigation into alleged wiretaps performed by the Obama administration, with no credible evidence to support his claims. Americans deserve – and want – answers on whether an adversarial nation had inappropriate ties to a presidential campaign.

Page, who has worked at Merrill Lynch in Moscow and says he has advised Russia’s oil and gas giant Gazprom on “key transactions”, has strongly denied the accusation that he served as a middleman between Trump’s campaign and Russian Federation. Adviser Roger Stone seemed to have had advance knowledge that Russian Federation hacked Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s email.

Above all else, we can not chase our tails trying to disprove every insane claim Trump makes on Twitter or in his campaign rallies. He may have done that because behind Mr. Sessions’ denial of contact with the Russians lay something worth covering up. Among those targeted were New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who actually had coffee and doughnuts with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who met with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak and other Russian officials in 2010. He’s grown increasingly angry over a stream of stories suggesting otherwise, including revelations last week that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russia’s ambassador to the US during the campaign. And Putin himself bestowed the Order of Friendship on oilman and now Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

The Washington Post reported Sessions spoke with Kislyak on two different occasions in 2016. The president, ever himself, rolled in a tweet about his Celebrity Apprentice successor as well. FBI Director James Comey reportedly pressed Justice Department officials to issue a statement denying the president’s unsupported claim – which Justice has so far declined to do. Another 38 percent said it was either “very” or “somewhat” likely that Russians played a role in the election.

Members from both parties weighed in on the situation. That quest would not be carried out with the intention of taking the presidency away from Mr. Trump and the Republicans. The only questions now are what are they hiding, why are they trying to hide it, and what – if any – will the consequences be? The day after that he “simmered with rage”, the newspaper reported, as he summoned his senior aides to chew them out.

Well into the second half of his nearly two-hour program Sunday night on the state-controlled Rossiya channel, commentator Dmitry Kiselyov blamed the mainstream USA media for not allowing Trump even to talk about improving ties with Russian Federation. “So definitely I think, as the USA government, we need to find out if there is a Russian connection because this is the United State of America”. And when that report goes public, brace yourself for another Twitter storm from the president.