Thomas Barrack and Roger Stone both recommended Manafort to candidate Trump. In early 2016, at Manafort's request, Barrack suggested to Trump that Manafort join the Campaign to manage the Republican Convention. v1 p134 #readthereport
Michael Cohen recalled being in Donald J. Trump's office on June 6 or 7 when Trump Jr. told his father that a meeting to obtain adverse information about Clinton was going forward. v1, p115 #readthereport
Both the GRU and WikiLeaks sought to hide their communications, which has limited the Office's ability to collect all of the communications between them. v1, p45 #readthereport
Separately, on August 2, 2016, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met in New York City with his long-time business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who the FBI assess to have ties to Russian intelligence. v1, p6 #readthereport
The Office spoke to every participant except Veselnitzkaya and Trump Jr., the latter whom declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the Office [Grand Jury]. v1, p117 #readthereport
"Michael, Putin gets on stage with Donald for a ribbon cutting for Trump Moscow, and Donald owns the republican nomination. And possibly beats Hilary and our boy is in... " v1, p71 #readthereport
By at least the summer of 2016, GRU officers sought access to state and local computer networks by exploiting known software vulnerabilities on websites of state and local governmental entities. v1, p50 #readthereport
The presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign" or "Campaign") showed interest in WikiLeaks's release of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton. v1, p5 #readthereport
Several individuals associated with the Campaign were contacted in 2016 about various efforts to obtain the missing Clinton emails and other stolen material in support of the Trump Campaign. v1, p61 #readthereport
In communications with Campaign officials, Page also repeatedly touted his high-level contacts with Russia and his ability to forge connections between candidate Trump and senior Russian governmental officials. v1, p98 #readthereport
The Office spoke to every participant except Veselnitzkaya and Trump Jr., the latter whom declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the Office [Grand Jury]. v1, p117 #readthereport
Following his meeting with Mifsud, Papadopoulus sent an email to the members of the Trump Campaign's foreign policy advisory team. The subject line of the message was "Meeting with Russian leadership-including Putin." v1, p84 #readthereport
Even when individuals testified or agreed to be interviewed, they sometimes provided information that was false or incomplete, leading to some false-statements charges described above. v1, p10. #readthereport
Gates also reported that Manafort instructed him in April 2016 or early May 2016 to send Kilimnik Campaign internal polling data and other updates so that Kilimnik, in turn, could share it with Ukrainian oligarchs. v1 p136 #readthereport
Manafort also twice met Kilimnik in the United States during the campaign period and conveyed campaign information. The second meeting took place on August 2, 2016. v1 p130 #readthereport
He proposed a different statement, asserting that he had been asked "by [his] client in Moscow - Emin Agalarov - to facilitate a meeting between a Russian attorney (Natalia Veslnitzkaya) and Donald Trump Jr." v1, p115 #readthereport
Manafort told the Office that he did not believe Kilimnik was working as a Russian "spy". The FBI, however, assesses that Kilimnik has ties to Russian intelligence. v1 p133 #readthereport
According to multiple witnesses involved with the Campaign, beginning inJune 2016 and continuing through October 2016, Stone spoke about WikiLeaks with senior Campaign officials, including candidate Trump. v1 p52 #readthereport#unredacted