Peskov confirmed that the Russian Ambassador met with the team of trump in the election race – media
Press Secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak met with associates of trump during the presidential campaign.
This writes the Daily Mail, citing CNN.
Peskov admitted that Kislyak met with former White house adviser on security issues Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign after the meeting with the Russian Ambassador.
“He talked about bilateral relations. He spoke about what is happening in the United States, so we have a deeper understanding in Moscow”, – said Peskov.
“This is something that is done every Russian Ambassador abroad, every Ambassador of the United States, including in Moscow”, – said Peskov.
“For more than the Ambassador speaking with people in their country of residence, the better the work he does”, – says the speaker Putin.
The press Secretary added that, probably, Kislyak also met with the people of the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Supposedly, it’s his job.
“If you look at some of the people associated with Hillary Clinton, during her campaign, you, probably, saw that she had a lot of meetings of this kind”, – said Peskov question about Clinton’s meeting with the Russian diplomat.
However, there were no meetings between the Ambassador about the electoral processes. Peskov said that Kislyak met with people “who advise Hillary or consult people who work for Hillary.”
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Recall that Kislyak became the most dangerous diplomat of Washington: a senior official of the trump already retired, the other is in a difficult situation due to a conversation with the Russian Ambassador. The first adviser to trump national security, Michael Flynn, resigned last monthafter he provided inaccurate information to White house officials – including Vice-President Mike Pence – and the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak in December. And attorney General Jeff sessions recused himself from the investigation of the Russian hacker attacks and other interference in the presidential election of 2016, on behalf of trump, after accusations that he was not informed about the meeting with the Russian Ambassador in July and September last year, when he was adviser to the campaign of trump.
We will remind that eks-the adviser of the President of the United States Donald trump, Michael Flynn, as it turned out, had another, previously unknown meeting with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak.
This meeting was held in preparation for the office of Obama’s new sanctions against Russia, writes The Washington Post.
According to the publication, it was also attended by the husband of Ivanka trump – Jared Kushner. “Jared Kushner, trump’s son-in-law and now his senior Advisor, along with Flynn took part in the meeting in the Trump Tower with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. But among the inner circle of the trump, that Flynn, who seems to have been the main interlocutor with the Russian representative,” – said the publication source in the administration.