Since Donald Trump was a 2016 candidate for the office of President of the United States, multiple suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials were discovered by the FBI, a special
Russian diplomat Sergey Kislyak met with a number of U.S. officials.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
President Trump at the G20
Official Presidential Portrait of President Donald J. Trump
The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was a criminal investigation into associates of 45th U.S. president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin regarding Russian interference in
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
…the office of President of the United States, multiple suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials were discovered by the FBI, a special counsel investigation, and several United States congressional committees, as part of their investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections…
Robert Mueller was appointed in May 2017 as special counsel.
Matthew Whitaker, who served as the Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to February 2019
Manafort speaking to media at the 2016 Republican National Convention