“A good starting point for discussion would be Russia discontinuing its ongoing meddling with the US election,” a senior Trump administration official told BuzzFeed News.
imposed by the US Treasury this month on Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker deemed to be an “active Russian agent” who has embarked on a months-long campaign to smear the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“According to Microsoft, Russian groups have attacked more than 200 organizations including political campaigns, advocacy groups, parties, and political consultants,” the official continued. They also pointed to a Washington Postpublished Thursday that said Facebook had removed additional Russian disinformation networks with ties to the country’s intelligence services.
“Various versions of this idea were floated before and it’s come up repeatedly in track 2 dialogues. Recall the ‘cyber unit’ Putin proposed to Trump at the Hamburg G20, which Trump touted as an accomplishment until his staff walked it back,”Mike Carpenter, a close Biden ally who served as the director for Russia on the National Security Council under then-president Barack Obama.
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