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American intelligence during the 2016 presidential elections intercepted negotiations between officials of the Russian government, which mentioned Russia with some "derogatory" information about the future of US President Donald Trump and his closest assistants. Thiswas reported by CNN with reference to two former intelligence officers and a source in Congress.

According to the sources of the TV channel, it was a question in the intelligence of the negotiations about some financial issues. CNN interlocutors said that the Russian government discussed whether Moscow could, with the help of the threat of publishing inconvenient information, have a lever of pressure on the closest environment of Trump. In intelligence, they came to the conclusion, said one of the sources that in Russia they were sure of the effectiveness of this way to influence the policy of the new American administration. “Russians can exaggerate faith in their influence,” the informant concluded.

Sources did not specify which specific assistants to Trump was talking in intercepted conversations. According to one of the CNN informants, in its message intelligence hid the names mentioned in the conversation from the American side, but from the context it was clear that it was about people from the Trump election headquarters.

However, the interlocutors of the television channel noted, compromising information about Trump and its environment, which Russia has, can be “exaggerated or even faked” as part of the misinformation campaign that Russia led during the elections.

The White House spokeswoman Sean Spicer called information about the presence of compromise in Russia to the surroundings of Trump "with false and unverified statements from anonymous sources made to slander the president." “In reality, the president’s income test over the past ten years has shown that he has no financial connections at all,” Spicer said. According to the spokesman, the use of Trump's opponents of ducking intelligence information "plays into our hands (America. - Ed.) To opponents and puts our country at risk."

The former head of the election headquarters Trump Paul Manafort rejected the prosecution of the illegal receipt of any finance and abuse when working with Trump and previous cooperation with foreign officials. According to Manafort, you need to wait for the results of an official investigation of Russian intervention in the elections conducted by the intelligence committees of both chambers of the Congress.

The FBI refused to comment on the published information. Also, the TV channel could not contact representatives of the US National Intelligence Director and the ex-adviser of Trump on National Security Michael Flynn.

On January 10, CNN announced the presence of Russian special services for Trump . Moscow, the TV channel said, collected materials for discrediting not only democrats, but also Republicans, but published only the information that damaged Trump’s opponent in the Hillary Clinton elections.

Later, Buzzfeed published the full text of the document on which CNN was based. In it, among other things, it was stated that Trump took part in the Sex Vozerinka in the presidential room of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Moscow in 2013, and also gave bribes through the companies affected by him during visits to St. Petersburg.

On February 11, CNN and BuzzFeed reported a partial authenticity of "incriminating evidence". At the same time, it was not about the "most scandalous and obscene" parts of the document.