Trump team was offered political cooperation with Moscow in 2015

The Trump campaign team was offered "political" cooperation with Moscow in November 2015, according to new revelations in the sprawling investigation by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, which Donald Trump continues to want to discredit.

The information comes out of a series of documents filed Friday by the Special Prosecutor and Justice of New York, in anticipation of the sentencing expected Wednesday for Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney Donald Trump, who recognized to have lied to the Congress about his contacts with Russia during the campaign and to have violated the rules on electoral financing.

On this last point, distinct from the Russian investigation, the New York prosecutors pointed out a possible personal responsibility of the American president in illegal payments made to two women to buy their silence and to avoid that a sexual scandal explodes.

But Donald Trump as the White House quickly swept away these new revelations.

"The president is totally whitened, thank you!" Tweeted Donald Trump cryptically.

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