{"id":1003519,"date":"2019-01-28T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003519"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:10:30","slug":"white-house-lied-about-having-no-contacts-with-russia-they-had-more-than-100-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-lied-about-having-no-contacts-with-russia-they-had-more-than-100-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Lied About Having No Contacts With Russia — They Had More Than 100 Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump and his White House repeatedly denied that there were any contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russia. They were lying.<\/p>\n

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Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisers had more than 100 contacts with Russians before his inauguration.<\/p>\n

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New York Times<\/a>: \u201cDuring the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald J. Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Top Trump officials have been accused of lying to investigators about their Russian contacts. They question is why did they all feel the need to lie?<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s former campaign chairman, deputy campaign manager, former national security adviser, personal lawyer and a campaign foreign policy adviser have all been accused of lying to investigators exploring Russia activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump denied any campaign contact with Russia, \u201cwith a firm \u2018no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jim Acosta<\/a>: \u201cFortunately ABC’s Cecilia Vega asked my question about whether any Trump associates contacted Russians. Trump said no.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NBC News<\/a>: “Trump did not specifically address questions regarding whether members of his staff were in contact with Russian officials during the campaign. When a reporter repeated that question to Trump afterwards as the president-elect approached the elevator to exit the room, he answered ‘No.'”<\/p>\n

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Trump said that nobody he knew of on the campaign had contacts with Russians.<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201c\u2018I have nothing to do with Russia,\u2019 he told reporters on Thursday. \u2018To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Question: \u201cCan you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with Russia during the course of the election?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump<\/a>: \u201cNo. Nobody that I know of. Nobody…\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mike Pence on whether there was any contact between Trump or his associates and anyone associated with the Kremlin: \u201cOf course not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Question: \u201cWas there any contact, in any way, between Trump or his associates and the Kremlin or cutouts?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pence<\/a>: \u201cOf course not. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kellyanne Conway on whether any members of the Trump campaign had contact with Russians: \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Question: \u201cDid anyone involved in the Trump campaign have any contact with Russians trying to meddle with the election?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Conway<\/a>: \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sarah Sanders said \u201cno contacts took place\u201d between the Trump campaign and Russians.<\/p>\n

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Sanders<\/a>: \u201c\u2018This is a nonstory because to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place, so it\u2019s hard to make a comment on something that never happened,\u2019 Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman, said on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hope Hicks: \u201cThere was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hicks<\/a>: \u201cIt never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reince Priebus said there were no contacts between Trump associates and Russia during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n

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Question: \u201cOne, do you flatly deny any contact, any coordination between Mr. Trump, his campaign, his associates and the Russians in interfering?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Priebus<\/a>: \u201cEven this question is insane. Of course, we didn’t interface with the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump and his White House repeatedly denied that there were any contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russia. They were lying.   NOW:   Trump and at least 17 of his campaign officials and advisers had more than 100 contacts with Russians before his inauguration.   New York Times: \u201cDuring the 2016 presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhite House Lied About Having No Contacts With Russia - They Had More Than 100 Contacts - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-lied-about-having-no-contacts-with-russia-they-had-more-than-100-contacts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-28T14:11:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:10:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-lied-about-having-no-contacts-with-russia-they-had-more-than-100-contacts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-lied-about-having-no-contacts-with-russia-they-had-more-than-100-contacts\/\",\"name\":\"White House Lied About Having No Contacts With Russia - 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