US intel report accused Putin of thinking Trump would help form international coalition to fight the Islamic State (ISIS). As if that's a bad idea-DNI report, 1/6/17, page 11 (Defeating ISIS is obviously unacceptable to the US)

Jan. 6, 2017, p. 11, "Russia’s Influence Campaign Targeting the 2016 US Presidential Election," DNI, CIA, Dept. of Justice, NSA...

"We assess Putin, his advisers, and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump over Secretary Clinton.... 

Moscow also saw the election of President-elect Trump as a way to achieve an international counterterrorism coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) [ISIS]."...p. 11 of 25






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