UNMASKING RUSSIA: Trump’s Mayflower Address
Unmasking Russia! Trump’s Mayflower Address Chapter 17 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win. Olga Lautman Nov 17 President Trump meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak at the White House on May 10. Russian Foreign Ministry/AP Share Last week, we wrote about Operation Crossfire Hurricane , the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into whether anyone connected to Donald Trump’s campaign had cooperated with Russia’s election attack, and how Carter Page , with his long trail of Kremlin entanglements, further deepened those suspicions. This week, we turn to Trump’s first major foreign-policy address. It was organized by Dmitri Simes , who would later be charged with funneling Kremlin funds and signaling an openness to Moscow, while quietly aligning Trump’s candidacy with Moscow’s strategic ambitions. On April 27, 2016, in the gilded ballroom of Washington’s Mayf...