WASHINGTON (AP) – Key pieces of the special counsel’s Russia investigation appear to be falling into place.
In three court filings Friday, prosecutors for the first time connected President Donald Trump to a crime involving hush money payments to a porn actress. They revealed new outreach from Russia early in the Trump presidential campaign. And they vividly laid out how they say two central figures in the Trump orbit – Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort – were continually tripped up by lies.
Here are the key takeaways from the latest round of court documents from Robert Mueller’s investigation:
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