Corey Lewandowski previously denied the Trump campaign had paid actors to appear at the future president’s 2016 campaign-launch announcement at Trump Tower, but Lewandowski recently admitted to Insider that people were indeed hired to show up.

Kremlin documents show Russian president Vladimir Putin personally authorized a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, The Guardian reports. The key meeting took place

“The U.S. intelligence community has developed new information about Konstantin Kilimnik, whom they call a Russian spy, that leads them to believe the associate of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort passed internal Trump campaign polling and strategy information to Russian intelligence

The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday that Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate and ex-employee of Paul Manafort, “provided the Russian Intelligence Services with sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy,” during the 2016 election, Just Security reports. It’s the first definitive

“I think you’d have riots. I think you’d have riots. I’m representing a tremendous many, many millions of people.” — Donald Trump quoted by NBC News in March 2016, warning what would happen if he failed to secure the Republican presidential nomination.