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Originally Posted by finnbow
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...75e_story.html
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Well, I can certainly understand why the Russians might want this. The Kremlin certainly wasn't getting the facts about the election from US based new sources and polling, so a competing perspective might have been helpful.