The charges filed against a Trump aide shocked the US – but also shed new light on the complex connections that link Russia to Brexit and the Foreign OfficeOn or approximately” 25 April 2016,a member of Donald Trump’s campaign team emailed his line manager with good news. His efforts to produce contact with the highest levels of power in Moscow had borne fruit: “The Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr Trump to meet him when he is alert.”This was George Papadopoulos, a 30-year-old foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign who was arrested by the FBI in July, and it was revealed final week,after lying approximately a series of meetings with a man the FBI described as “a professor based in London”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk