Analysis: What does the Trump team say to Russia behind closed doors? We’re about to get a glimpse.
President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn arrives at federal court on Dec. 18, 2008. By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 17 at 9:38 AM President Trump’s interactions with Russia are largely a black box.
The lie involved his denials that he and the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, had discussed the Obama administration’s newly imposed sanctions. Those sanctions were in response to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and the Trump transition team worried that Russia would poison the well for future relations by responding with a huge sanctions package of its own.
The day after the phone call, which was made when Flynn was in the Dominican Republican and intercepted by U.S. officials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would respond with its own sanctions package. But just a couple hours after that, Putin overruled that and said there would be no retaliation. The Mueller report states that Flynn told McFarland he believed his phone call had helped.
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