Let’s take a look at the tangled web of Trump Russia relations. Donald Trump went ahead and appointed Michael Flynn ( a retired US Army lieutenant general, who is said to have very close ties with the Russians- in 2015 he was paid by a Russian state-sponsored broadcaster to address their gala dinner in Moscow, he has been known to be very close to the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak) his National Security Advisor inspite of a warning from Former President Barack Obama, an action that has come back to haunt him.
Donald Trump Jr has admitted he met at the Trump Tower in New York, on the 9th June, 2016, with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya (representing the Russian government) who promised to provide damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Emails have been presented as evidence of how the meeting was set up, but the president’s son has since claimed that no meaningful or useful information was provided and/or collected, this however, does not take away the fact that it’s a clear indication that the Trump campaign and eventually his winning the election had seeked or perhaps even received help from the Russians.
Robert Mueller, (a reputable and widely respected man, an ex FBI director and the second longest-serving director in history) was appointed Special Council by the department of justice to investigate the Russia matter. He has since begun an investigation on the president’s possible obstruction of justice after he, Mr Trump asked for an inquiry on the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s ties to the Russians to be dropped, an enquiry that was spearheaded by the then FBI chief James Comey. James Comey who testified to a senate that indeed the president asked him to drop an investigation he was doing on Michael Flynn was later fired too ( only a few months later). There’s another enquiry on his firing.
So, how exactly were the Russians involved in the elections? On two fronts:. 1. The Democratic National Committe’s system was hacked and classified, official information on Clinton’s campaign and how her office worked were leaked- this included emails with sensitive and embarrassing ‘dirt’ on Hilary meant to weaken her campaign and therefore her chances of winning the election. 2. Using Facebook ( and this takes us back to Cambridge analytica) to reach more than 120 million people with made up dirt on Hilary and her campaign, again in an effort to weaken her campaign.
This is all a big puzzle and these people are just smaller fish to fry in uncovering what could potentially be the biggest conspiracy we’ve yet seen in an American president. And having said that, maybe this is exactly what Trump wants to achieve, he prides himself in doing things that ‘ have never been done/seen before’! He believes he’s going to make history and do things that’ll get people talking about him for years to come, something that’s perhaps come about from his life of TV – being a celebrity with his reality TV shows.
REFERENCES :
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-russia-inquiry
time.com › Politics › Russia Investigation
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/07/politics/donald-trump-jr-full-emails/
TRAMPLEGATE.COM 