For all practical purposes, Russia was part of the Trump campaign. [...] On Oct. 24, Trump’s team began placing spots on select African American radio stations. They’d like to see a document titled “Plan For Collusion Between Russia and Trump Campaign” that lays out in specific detail what both parties would do and is signed at the bottom by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. When we speak now of “the Trump campaign,” we have to think about it as something larger than just those people who were working at the Trump Tower headquarters. And the Trump campaign was Russian intelligence, echoing the campaign’s messages and working for both the short- and long-term goals the campaign had set out.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2018 17:47 UTC