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Part 83, some of Russian meddling, and related, material from F6 big ones. These from Tuesday,
December 19, 2017, headed, North Korea and Russia unite before possible U.S. peace talks
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=137029075

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Flynn and Russia: Trump associates don’t recall campaign details
AM Joy
12/3/17
Michael Flynn admits to lying about Russian contacts, but some Donald Trump associates claim not to remember
any of Flynn’s actions during the Trump campaign. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. Duration: 11:15
©2017 NBCNews.com
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/flynn-and-russia-trump-associates-don-t-recall-campaign-details-1108696131537

Add: Trump plugs the Lewandowski-Bossie book ..
https://nypost.com/2017/12/16/trump-plugs-Lewandowski-book-about-campaign/ .
Meaning it probably isn't worth reading.

From "stashed December 3, 2017:"

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Trump Attacks The FBI On Twitter, Urges Followers To Sue ABC News
Just another Sunday morning for the president on social media.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-attacks-the-fbi-on-twitter-urges-followers-to-sue-abc-news_us_5a2413a5e4b03c44072e3038

Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ Using N.R.A. Ties
WASHINGTON — A conservative operative trumpeting his close ties to the National Rifle Association and Russia told a Trump campaign adviser last year that he could arrange a back-channel meeting between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, according to an email sent to the Trump campaign.
A May 2016 email to the campaign adviser, Rick Dearborn, bore the subject line “Kremlin Connection.” In it, the N.R.A. member said he wanted the advice of Mr. Dearborn and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, then a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump and Mr. Dearborn’s longtime boss, about how to proceed in connecting the two leaders.
Russia, he wrote, was “quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the U.S.” and would attempt to use the N.R.A.’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., to make “‘first contact.’” The email, which was among a trove of campaign-related documents turned over to investigators on Capitol Hill, was described in detail to The New York Times.
Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, secured a guilty plea on Friday from President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, for lying to the F.B.I. about contacts with Moscow’s former ambassador to the United States. But those contacts came after Mr. Trump’s improbable election victory.
The emailed outreach from the conservative operative to Mr. Dearborn came far earlier, around the same time that Russians were trying to make other connections to the Trump campaign. Another contact came through an American advocate for Christian and veterans causes, and together, the outreach shows how, as Mr. Trump closed in on the nomination, Russians were using three foundational pillars of the Republican Party — guns, veterans and Christian conservatives — to try to make contact with his unorthodox campaign.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-nra-campaign.html