A top Russian official tried to set up a video teleconference between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russia on the day after Trump’s inauguration, according to a senior FBI agent’s interview notes
Peter Strzok, at the time a lead FBI agent investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, heard about the attempt to connect Trump and Putin while he and another bureau agent interviewed the president’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, at the White House just days into the new administration.Flynn relayed that he’d gotten the request to arrange a Trump-Putin call from Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
“The positive call was a significant start to improving the relationship between the United States and Russia that is in need of repair,” the White Houseat the time, describing a conversation lasting about one hour and involving issues including Syria and fighting Islamic terrorism. Strzok, a deputy FBI assistant director at the time of the Flynn interview, has been a top target for the president and his Republican allies after the disclosure that he’d sent a series of anti-Trump text messages to one of his colleagues. The FBI in August 2018Strzok over the exchanges, a disciplinary move that Trump cited as reason to wrap up the Russia investigation that Strzok in its early stages had a senior role in leading.
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