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Giuliani's scandal: Is the Trump campaign colluding with Russia again?

According to The Washington Post, US intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Giuliani, then searching in Ukraine for dirt about Biden was the target of a Russian operation

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In 2016, the public didn’t know that Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was passing polling data to someone tied to the Russian intelligence directorate.

Michelle Goldberg | NYT

5 min read Last Updated : Oct 20 2020 | 11:58 AM IST

The Treasury Department last month imposed sanctions on four people linked to Russia for attempting to influence the presidential election, including a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Andriy Derkach, who has worked with Donald Trump’s consigliere Rudy Giuliani to smear Joe Biden. According to the Treasury, Derkach has been “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian intelligence services.”

The Treasury said Derkach had worked covertly to cultivate “false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 presidential election” — an obvious reference to Biden. Derkach had released “edited audiotapes and other unsupported information” and

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