# 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:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-associates-may-have-coordinated-with-russians-according-to-us-officials/782799/5520 "2019-01-18T20:37:17Z")

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This is an update to a ten months-ago post:

> [@A Thread for the Mueller Investigation Results and Outcomes (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-the-mueller-investigation-results-and-outcomes-part-1/800093/2834):
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> [Well, well, well… what have we here](https://apnews.com/7ebe25d613a745b18404c41980511eac/Jailed-Instagram-model-wants-to-trade-secrets-for-freedom)?

I just noticed [this headline](https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/russia-seizes-model-who-made-trump-claim/ar-BBSqP1i):

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> A Belarusian model [Anastasia Vashukevich, aka Nastya Rybka, who was deported by Thailand and placed on a flight transiting Moscow] who said she had evidence of Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s election campaign is now in Russian police custody. … A woman resembling her and looking sedated struggles as four men push her into a wheelchair [at Moscow’s main airport], then carry her.  
> … [She] had planned to get a connecting flight to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, but had been seized and dragged from the transit zone on to Russian territory, then whisked away to a police station.  
> … While in custody [in Thailand], Rybka and Kirillov sought help from the US embassy, fearing extradition to Russia…  
> **Rybka said she had evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election campaign** , allegedly obtained through an acquaintance with Russian billionaire industrialist Oleg Deripaska.

Russia didn’t want that evidence to get out?

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