Rubio's committee's report not only said Russia had interfered in the election, but it had done so to benefit Trump

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Marco Rubio's committee's 2020 Senate Intelligence report concluded that Russia had “engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.”

It not only said Russia had interfered, but also that it had done so to benefit Trump.

“The Committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president,” the report said. “Moscow’s intent was to harm the Clinton Campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential administration, help the Trump Campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, and undermine the U.S. democratic process.”

...Paul Manafort, Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, met several times with a "Russian intelligence officer" named Konstantin Kilimnik and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, with whom the report said Moscow coordinates foreign influence operations.

"On numerous occasions, Manafort sought to secretly share internal Campaign information with Kilimnik...

"Manafort's presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign.

"Taken as a whole, Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat."

...the report mentioned that WikiLeaks published thousands of emails hacked from Clinton's campaign and a top aide:

"Trump and senior Campaign officials sought to obtain advance information about WikiLeaks's planned releases through (Republican political operative) Roger Stone. At their direction, Stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the Campaign and shared his purported knowledge directly with Trump and senior Campaign officials on multiple occasions.

"Trump and the Campaign believed that Stone had inside information... The Committee could not reliably determine the extent of authentic, non-public knowledge about WikiLeaks that Stone obtained and shared with the Campaign."

HuffPo:

___Trump’s use of Russian assistance to win in 2016 was done entirely in the open. That summer, he publicly called on Russia to “find” his opponent’s deleted emails from her private server.

The Russian-aligned group WikiLeaks began releasing the material stolen from the Hillary Clinton campaign the same day that news broke of Trump’s infamous “grab-’em-by-the-pussy” video.

“WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks,” Trump told an audience in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 10. “I’ll tell you, this WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable,” Trump said on Oct. 12 in Ocala, Florida. “It tells you the inner heart. You’ve got to read it and you’ve got to maybe get it, because they’re not putting it out.”

That was the same day the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a direct message to Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., asking his father to highlight the stolen emails and offering a web link for Trump to advertise. Fifteen minutes after that direct message, candidate Trump sent out a tweet praising WikiLeaks. Two days later, Donald Trump Jr. sent out the link WikiLeaks had provided.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-russia-gabbard_n_687ea572e4b0502d85e617c2


...more key Intel report findings:

"Paul Manafort’s presence on the Trump Campaign and proximity to then-Candidate Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign."

"George Papadopoulos was not a witting cooptee of the Russian intelligence services, but nonetheless presented a prime intelligence target and potential vector for malign Russian influence."

"Russia took advantage of members of the Transition Team’s relative inexperience in government, opposition to Obama Administration policies, and Trump’s desire to deepen ties with Russia to pursue unofficial channels through which Russia could conduct diplomacy."


Volume five: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/press-rubio-statement-senate-intel-release-volume-5-bipartisan-russia-report/

Volumes I-V: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/publications-report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures/

also:

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Donald Trump, July 2018: "I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place."

Link to tweet

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