Russia States it Will Continue to stay in Touch with Trump & his Staff, as they were during election
 

Russia Says It Was In Touch With Trump & Campaign During The Election




MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The Russian government was in touch with members of President-elect Donald Trump’s political team during the U.S. election campaign and knows most of his entourage, one of Russia’s most senior diplomats told the Interfax news agency on Thursday.

Accused by defeated Democratic contender Hillary Clinton of being a puppet of President Vladimir Putin after praising the Russian leader, Trump has dismissed suggestions he had anything to do with the Russian government during the campaign.

But in comments that could prove politically awkward for the president-elect, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said there had indeed been some communications.

“There were contacts,” Interfax cited Ryabkov as saying. “We are doing this and have been doing this during the election campaign.”

Such contacts would continue, he added, saying the Russian government knew and had been in touch with many of Trump’s closest allies. He did not name names.

“Obviously, we know most of the people from his (Trump’s) entourage. Those people have always been in the limelight in the United States and have occupied high-ranking positions,” he said.

“I cannot say that all of them, but quite a few have been staying in touch with Russian representatives.”

Moscow was just beginning to consider how to go about setting up more formal channels to communicate with the future Trump administration, said Ryabkov.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



FBI INQUIRY

The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a preliminary inquiry in recent months into allegations that Trump or his associates might have had questionable dealings with Russian people or businesses, but found no evidence to warrant opening a full investigation, according to sources familiar with the matter. The agency has not publicly discussed the probe.

The U.S. government has blamed Russia for cyber attacks on Democratic Party organizations.

Trump, who has spoken of his desire to improve tattered U.S.-Russia ties, has said he might meet Putin before his inauguration, but Putin’s spokesman has said there are currently no plans for such a meeting.

Interfax reported on Wednesday that Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, would be in New York this week for a chess tournament, a few blocks from Trump Tower, where the president-elect has his office.

But it cited Peskov as saying he did not plan to pass any message to Trump from Putin.

The Russian parliament erupted in applause on Wednesday when it heard that Trump had been elected and Putin told foreign ambassadors he was ready to fully restore ties with Washington.

Ryabkov was more circumspect though, saying the Russian Foreign Ministry felt no euphoria about the Republican’s win despite wanting to normalize relations with Washington.

Moscow and Washington are at odds over Syria, Ukraine and NATO.

Ryabkov said Trump’s allies had made some tough statements about Russia during the campaign and that his ministry was therefore not harboring any “rose-tinted” hopes.

“We are not expecting anything in particular from the new U.S. administration,” Interfax cited Ryabkov as saying.

Election is over. No need to continue your bias copy/paste articles. Why don't you head to your nearest city and cause some violence like the rest?

This is post election, you gotta play defense now defending your POTUS choice that won, up your game. Offense was easy but you're on the defense team now stud.

Did you read the headline or article? This is about Russia keeping in contact with our president-elect Trump as he transitions to take office. :thumbsup

It's inferring trump colluded with the russians during the election... and it is the left, once again, trying to paint trump as a communist. It's biased and false...

...dipshit

the problem, OP, is credibility. reuters is one of the rags that went thermonuclear hate on trump, abandoned journalism. fudged up polls showing hilary with large lead. it was a fraud. nothing they write can be trusted.

but you gobble up the PC propaganda like a lap dog.

:1orglaugh

No inference. The fact is Trump & his team said nobody on his team was in any contact with Russia, which is a lie.



Reuters picked up the story from Interfax, the Russian government owned news agency, as it states in the article, and it quotes the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

So the story is being pushed by Russia if you disagree with the facts then you say Russia and USA are lying.

Russia Claims Contact With Trump Team During Campaign - WSJ

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...18e_story.html

Crickets from Trump supporters

Nobody cares. And here's another shocker for you... Russia didn't hack podesta emails... another big fat lie.

You already responded Plaster. Lets hear from more than 2 Trump supporters how they feel.

There's so much copy/paste from other supporters it's almost as if they're waiting for a copy/paste response from headquarters and don't have their own independent thoughts on the issue of Russia's ties to Trump.

That looks like a continuation of the game. I'm gonna explain the rules to whose who live outside of Russia.

The government-controlled media was supporting Trump all the way, showing him as a good guy and a commoner, who has rose up against the corrupted US system and the establishment (bad guys). He was painted as a friend of Russia and blah blah blah, which of course he isn't.

All that show was run because the government was 100% sure that Trump will never win, so in case of his defeat, the media had to start the second part of the show called "they stole his victory!" It had to be like: "look, those corrupted bastards have made him to lose because he was so honest and so pro-Russian!" "Now you all can see that the US elections were staged!" "There is no democracy in America!" and so on... The media chiefs had a pre-made scenario for that.

And what has happened? Trump has won the elections (wow!) The show is broken and the game has lost the sense. Personally I do believe that Putin was really shocked as well.

Now it looks like they will play the "he was our project" card in hope that FBI will use it to cancel the results of the elections. So the show could continue and "they stole his victory!" game will get a sense again. Otherwise the people will see that Trump is not pro-Russian at all and a question will be raised: "why the Putin's media has supported that guy so much, if he's not good for us?"

That's IMHO of course, but many here think this way :2 cents:

Wasn't a number of his staff recently employed directly by the Russians?

No. And go watch Clinton Cash now and report back.

Well kind of yeah, Carter Page & Paul Manafort (who is currently under investigation by the FBI)

This should be a HUGE fucking story. Imagine if any other presidential candidate had this info spilled about him.

I dare anyone to find a single a mention of this on FOX news. They're too busy showing what a "gentleman" Donald Trump can be for 5 minutes when he visits the White House to meet with a man who is better than him even on his worst day.

The CIA is hopefully all over this like orange on Trump.

This is the Fox News spin on it today Trump's election boosts Kremlin hopes for better relations | Fox News

The election is over and you can't undo it, no matter how hard you try.

Why in the world would trump campaigners be on payroll of russia? It's the most ridiculous story and as usual... you guys eat it all up.

haha all of a sudden Fox News gives the benefit of the doubt to one of the worst countries on the planet because they think their golden boy has the magic touch. Russia should never be trusted. Any Russian period should never be trusted. I've never met one who can be.

As I've said already, Russia is licking their chops now that they have a Manchurian candidate.

:1orglaugh
http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/as...-large-169.jpg

Russia isn't the enemy.

stupid,infantile,hysterical people hate not only Russia, but also the United States and the laws and Democracy etc...
https://pp.vk.me/c626519/v626519479/...2XuDbkb3qU.jpg

"Clinton Cash " anyone register it yet ?:upsidedow

Lets just see how this plays out

Russian officials said they had contact with Trump and Clinton campaigns



Why would the left try to paint Trump as a communist when the left are mostly communists themselves? Hell, they almost picked a communist as their candidate and now the many misogynists among them are saying he would have been the better candidate and would have easily won.



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And here is the "official confirmation" of my thoughts described in the post above: Putin's spokesman called the Trump's victory "quite unexpected" for the Kremlin

Typical bladewire getting hoodwinked again by the left media and then when the facts settle out, he looks as gullible as ever.

Wow I missed your initial post here thank you for your perspective and intelligent input :thumbsup

The problem with Putin that gets Russia in trouble over and over again is that he doesn't keep his word, so no matter how he jockeys for whatever position he wants, he'll end up fucking things up & getting sanctions if he wiggles out of agreements again.

Agreements? what kind?

I'm not getting into the weeds with you point by point because either you'll disagree with each point to defend Putin or I'll be educating you on international law (what little I know).

Just Google Putin broken agreements or Putin sanctions or Russia violations

you start first (what little I know)

Striking Syria Is Completely Illegal
The fundamental rule of international law is that states cannot attack other states, even for humanitarian reasons
Striking Syria Is Completely Illegal | TIME.com

PS: we write international laws not read

So I was right and you just wanted to get in the weeds defending Putin :thumbsup

Not are putin but a People's.

It's going to be an interesting few years, we can agree on that :thumbsup

not distract us external threats. it will be best help