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A new report suggests that President Donald Trump’s aides may have been floating ideas for lifting at least some of President Barack Obama’s sanctions on Russia in the days prior to the resignation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer and long-time confidant, and Felix H. Sater, a former Trump business associate with ties to Russia, are reported to have met with Ukrainian parliament member Andrii V. Artemenko in New York City days before Flynn’s resignation, according to The New York Times. The plan, which Cohen and Sater …read more
Source: Salon