officials had formed relationships with Page in 2008 and 2013 and Russian officials may have been focused on Page in 2016. However, the investigation did not establish that Page coordinated with Russia in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election."

June 2016 Trump Tower meeting

Michael Cohen recalled that Donald Trump Jr. "may have told candidate Trump about an upcoming meeting" to receive dirt on Hillary Clinton. According to President Trump's written answers to Mueller, he had "no recollection of learning of the meeting at the time," and Mueller found no documentary evidence that shows he did.

During the meeting, Russian government lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya claimed that "funds derived from illegal activities in Russia were provided to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats," but was unable to provide evidence whenthat Trump campaign national security adviser J.D. Gordon's "efforts to dilute a portion of the Republican Party platform on providing assistance to Ukraine were undertaken at the behest of President Trump or Russia." It also did not establish that Jeff Sessions' meeting with Russian Ambassador Kislyak "included any more than a passing mention of the presidential campaign."

Paul Manafort

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort directed his deputy Rick Gates to share internal campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a business partner who the FBI believes has ties to Russian intelligence.

Because Manafort's credibility was damaged when he broke his plea deal and because Mueller was unable to gather evidence on what happened to the polling data after it was sent to Kilimnik, investigators were unable to establish a connection to Russian