Members of President Trump’s campaign team and the businessman’s associates made repeated contacts by phone with Russian intelligence and government officials in the year leading up to November’s election, though the topics of these conversations remains unknown to the public.

U.S. intelligence officials discovered the paper trail last year while investigating hacks by Russia into the Democratic National Committee’s server, according to a report.

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