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Leaked Kremlin documents support claim that Russia has compromising material on Trump, report says
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The Guardian said Kremlin documents it obtained claim that Russia had compromising info on Trump.
The paper said that it verified the documents and that they discuss a plan to help Trump win in 2016.
Unproven rumors have long swirled that Russia got lurid information about Trump on a business trip.
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Documents from a top-level Kremlin meeting in 2016 appear to say that Russia had compromising information about Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, The Guardian reported on Thursday.
The documents are said to be from a Russian national security council meeting on January 22, 2016, attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and top intelligence and military officials.
The Guardian said it took steps to verify the documents through expert analysis. It said they also included verifiable circumstantial details.
The newspaper said Western intelligence agencies were also aware of the documents.
The documents suggested the main subject of the closed meeting was a plan to deploy Russian intelligence in an audacious bid to help Trump win the election against Hillary Clinton, The Guardian said.
The documents, according to The Guardian, said Russian officials believed that a Trump victory would aid Russia by badly destabilizing the US.
The documents provided a psychological profile of Trump that described him as "mentally unstable," The Guardian reported