Kremlin papers
[1] The report outlines a plan to put Trump into the White House in 2016 to promote Russian interests and to weaken the United States.Based on the release, it is thought that Vladimir Putin approved of the operation on January 22, 2016, at a private meeting of the Russian national security council.[1] During that meeting, it was determined by a Russian spy agency that they would hack US targets to collect information and prepare measures towards helping Trump.[2] Shortly after the meeting, it is believed that Putin set up a commission to influence the 2016 US presidential election headed by Russia's defense minister Sergei Shoigu."[4] Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the idea of Russia making Trump American president as "a great pulp fiction".