But it is also worth remembering it becomes the third allegation of an effort to surreptitiously aid Trump’s 2016 campaign that violated the law. In February, Mueller’s team obtained indictments against 13 Russians who worked for an organization called the Internet Research Agency. We also do not yet have a full picture of two other key points of contact between the Trump campaign and Russian actors. It was just fewer than 78,000 votes that gave Trump the presidency, 0.06 percent of the votes cast. What became more clear this week is Trump’s campaign was aided by many more surreptitious acts violating federal law than we realized — and President Trump himself is now clearly implicated in aiding at least one.

Source: Washington Post August 24, 2018 21:01 UTC