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sidents—more change in the first 13 months than his four immediate predecessors saw in their first two years.14361 Notable early departures included National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (after just 25 days in office), and Press Secretary Sean Spiceriag Close personal aides to Trump including Steve Bannon, Hope

burn its rivals. The Kremlin can also =se a knowntapped phone line to its advantage. Consider, for =xample, the tapped phone of Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. On =ecember 1, 2016, Kislyak went to Trump Tower to meet Jared Kushner and =ichael Flynn. According to Kushner's version of that meeting, =islyak s

in the U.S. intelligence community. Nor was this the only =istrust Kislyak cultivated: the conversations on the monitored phone =ed to the firing of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and =onversations that Kislyak had with Attorney General Jeff Sessions led =o Sessions's recusing himself from the Russian i

ls between the Trump campaign an= Russia during the final seven months of the 2016 campaign. Several of these involved Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The Trump team =as previously denied any contact with the Russians during the campaign on multiple occasions. =ere's a sampling: "There wa= no com

ngulf Trump's administration=at a speed not seen since he took office. =onday: We learned that then-President Obama warned Trump not to hire former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. We =lso learned that Trump gave the Russians highly classified information. Tuesday: Trump fired FBI Di=ector James Comey, w

kely someone from the Obama White House) saying that the new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, had, on two occasions, met with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. When the president was shown the story, he didn’t see its significance. “So what?” he said. Well, during his confirmation, it was explained to the

December. Hicks missed this point; later, it had to be highlighted for the president by Bannon. Three people in the Trump administration—the former National Security Advisor, the current attorney general, and the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law—had now been directly connected to the Russian diplomat. To