"Trump thinking - again - about running for president May 27, 2013, 2:55 PM"
"Serial presidential campaign explorer Donald Trump is at it again, spending $1 million researching a 2016 run, according to his executive vice president.
"The electoral research was commissioned," Trump's executive VP and special counsel Michael Cohen first told the New York Post and confirmed to CBS News. "We did not spend $1 million on this research for it just to sit on my bookshelf," he said.
"At this point Mr. Trump has not made any decision on a political run, but what I would say is that he is exactly what this country needs. The turnout at these political speeches indicates his following remains very strong and is growing.""
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-thinking-again-about-running-for-president/
""Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President," Trump tweeted as he departed the White House for South Florida, the location of his private Mar-a-Lago club. "The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!""
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/16/trump-tweets-russia-started-anti-us-campaign-long-before-he-ran-for-president.html
So it was known to the Russians that Trump was seriously thinking about running. This gave them plenty of time to set up operations before the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015.
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