# Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians, according to US officials

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**Created:** [March 23, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians-according-to-us-officials/782799 "2017-03-23T00:28:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians-according-to-us-officials/782799/157 "2017-04-18T22:29:18Z")

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FISA warrant issued due to that [dossier](http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/fbi-dossier-carter-page-donald-trump-russia-investigation/index.html?adkey=bn). Very relevant part:

“Officials familiar with the process say even if the application to monitor Page included information from the dossier, it would only be after the FBI had corroborated the information through its own investigation. The officials would not say what or how much was corroborated.”

Remember when certain people on this board pretended that this dossier was actually a 4chan hoax?:

> [@Leaked report of Russian blackmail of Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaked-report-of-russian-blackmail-of-trump/776846/27):
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> This whole thing started as a hoax on 4chan /pol/ :
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> [https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/95568919/#95571329](https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/95568919/#95571329)
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> A lot of people are going to get fired 🙂

Turns out he was wrong, but I hope he’s right about that last part.

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