I really don't see the issue with the Seychelles meetings, if the idea is to get Russia to pull back from their aggressive warmaking in return for easing sanctions, that's a worthy goal for any administration. Backchannel diplomacy is neither invented by nor exclusive to Trump.
It's pretty tangential to linking the Russians to influencing the election, too. Whether or not it was a week or two in advance of his inauguration.
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