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Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen reveals new Russian outreach in 2016 campaign

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump secretly authorized his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to try to arrange a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in New York just three months after Trump had announced his White House bid, according to new disclosures from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on Friday.

The proposed meeting between the real estate mogul and the Russian leader, who was visiting New York for the U.N. General Assembly in September 2015, did not take place. It's unclear whether Russian authorities considered the offer, which Cohen made in a radio interview.

Two months later, Cohen spoke with a Russian national who claimed to be a "trusted person" in the Russian Federation. The person, who was not named in the court document, offered Trump's

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