The special counsel’s investigation shows the Trump campaign tried to turn Russia’s election interference to its advantage.
By Shane Harris , Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email Bio Follow Ellen Nakashima and Ellen Nakashima National security reporter Email Bio Follow Craig Timberg Craig Timberg National reporter covering technology Email Bio Follow April 18 at 6:54 PM In what will stand as among the most definitive public accounts of the Kremlin’s attack on the American political system, the report of special counsel Robert S.
Mueller’s findings build on a set of indictments he issued last year against Russians who allegedly participated in the active-measures campaign. Trump campaign staffers and supporters discussed pending releases of emails by WikiLeaks on several occasions, the report shows. Many passages are blacked out because, Mueller noted, they could harm an ongoing matter.
Mueller also found that Trump repeatedly requested that his aides find people who could gain access Clinton’s private emails. “Gates recalled candidate Trump being generally frustrated that the Clinton emails had not been found,” Mueller wrote. The next day, after the site had launched, Trump Jr. sent a direct message to WikiLeaks: “Off the record, I don’t know who that is but I’ll ask around. Thanks.”
The social media campaign began in 2014 as a “generalized program” to undermine the U.S. election system, Mueller wrote. But it evolved into “a targeted operation” that by early 2016 “favored candidate Trump and disparaged candidate Clinton.” Some employees from St. Petersburg traveled to the United States to obtain information and gather photographs to use in their posts. They are among those Mueller indicted last year.
Getting the Trump campaign — or better yet, Donald Trump himself — to tweet or retweet material put out by the Russian disinformation campaign was a closely watched goal for the operatives at the Internet Research Agency, Mueller found.
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