; (5) Trump campaign senior foreign policy advisor Carter Page, who has ties to Gazprom, the Russian Federation’s state-owned gas company, made a speech in Moscow critical of United States foreign policy while a Trump campaign advisor, and met with Ambassador Kislyak at the 2016 Republican National Convention while serving as campaign advisor; (6) Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone, who had back-channel discussions with Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and had exchanges with hacker Guccifer 2.0, a known front for Russian intelligence, both of whom released documents damaging to Secretary Clinton and her presidential campaign; and (7) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has met a number of times with President Putin and was awarded Russia’s Order of Friendship in 2013, the highest state honor for a foreigner; Whereas, despite being presented with clear and convincing evidence of atrocities committed by the Government of the Russian Federation and its President, President Trump has not only refused to criticize them, but has gone so far as to praise President Putin and his government, and furthermore, President Trump has been exceedingly willing to criticize or offend some of our closest allies, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Mexico; Whereas President Trump, his campaign officials, and some of his cabinet members have openly criticized the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its usefulness, and its future, and this open criticism of NATO only helps Russia by seeming to call into question NATO’s power, influence, and ability to counter the Russian Federation strategically and militarily; Whereas NATO is one of our oldest and strongest military alliances that was created to counter the former Soviet Union’s aggression, and, more recently, provides a needed deterrent capability against an increasingly belligerent Russia