Moscow used Trump associates to try to hurt Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, says a new U.S. report on influence efforts from Russia, Iran and elsewhere.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:23 PM EST

President Vladimir Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election, including intelligence operations to influence people close to former President Donald Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Tuesday.

The report did not name those people but seemed to be a reference to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed allegations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine.
The New York Times