Trump’s lawyer and the Venezuelan president: How Giuliani got involved in back-channel talks with Maduro - The Washington Post

Rudolph W. Giuliani participated in a September 2018 phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that was part of a shadow effort to ease him from power.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lawyer-and-the-venezuelan-president-how-giuliani-got-involved-in-back-channel-talks-with-maduro/2019/12/29/289dc6aa-235f-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html

Opinion | What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast? - The New York Times

America’s Christian nationalists have been finding common cause with the Russian government for a while now.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/opinion/maria-butina-putin-infiltration.html

The NRA-Linked Russian Spy Who Isn't Donald Trump - YouTube

A Russian operative was caught cozying up to the NRA to further Putin's interests. No, not Trump, it was Maria Butina....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD8ssT-wsYk

A Financier’s Profit-Minded Mission to Open a Channel Between Kushner and North Korea - The New York Times

The American businessman, who lives in Singapore, took advantage of an unusual opening in an administration where matters of policy and business often seem to blur. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/north-korea-back-channel-kushner-gabriel-schulze.html

Cambridge Analytica linked to Blackwater's Erik Prince -- who allegedly sought back channel for Trump and Putin - Raw Story

President Donald Trump's former digital operation Cambridge Analytica reportedly has links to Erik Prince, the founder of former mercenary firm Blackwater. Prince's sister, Betsy DeVos, serves as education secretary for President Donald Trump. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/cambridge-analytica-linked-blackwaters-erik-prince-allegedly-sought-back-channel-trump-putin/

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Mueller gathering evidence Team Trump sought secret back channel to Kremlin at Seychelles meeting

The Washington Post is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller is gathering evidence that a Seychelles meeting in January 2017 involving a U.A.E. adviser and Trump-connected Erik Prince was aimed at creating a secret back channel between the incoming Trump administration and Russia. The U.A.E. adviser, George Nader, is now reportedly cooperating with Mueller. Prince had originally painted the meeting in a very different light during a Congressional interview last year. The Post writes:...
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/7/1747325/-Mueller-gathering-evidence-Team-Trump-sought-secret-back-channel-to-Kremlin-at-Seychelles-meeting