“U.S. intelligence officials [are] investigating whether … [Page] opened private communications with senior Russian officials to discuss U.S. sanctions policy under a possible Trump Administration.”233 If Page indeed did so, and at candidate Trump’s direction or with his knowledge, Trump’s request for Russian hackers to attack Clinton’s email servers on July 27, 2016—less than three weeks after Page returns from Moscow—would likely be regarded as a federal felony under the aiding and abetting statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2.234
