Russia probe unearths attempted meeting between Trump campaign and Putin: report

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

A top Trump aide emailed campaign officials last year about an individual seeking to arrange a meeting between top campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new CNN report.

The email, sent by Rick Dearborn who is now President Trump's deputy chief of staff, was unearthed by congressional investigators probing possible ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

The identity of the individual who sought to arrange the meeting is not clear. CNN reported that the person was referenced as being from "WV," which one source said meant West Virginia. Another source, however, told the network that the individual may have had political connections in West Virginia.

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The email was sent in June 2016, which is around the time that Trump campaign members, including the president's son Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower who had promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/347732-russia-probe-unearths-email-about-attempted-meeting-between-trump

[ProudLib72]

1. They need to start reporting the calories in these nothing burgers

I've definitely gained a lot of weight since January!

[Honeycombe8]

2. Whoa. That's newsworthy....and damning, if true. nt

[ffr]

3. K&R

[Achilleaze]

4. Lock up the republican TreasonWeasels

who are pissing all over American democracy.

Lock them up.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Between the soho frump hotel fraud case and the verified dossier, he's toast.

There's no surviving this. This morning on am joe Blumenthal said the dossier and the testimony and maybe even the 40K pages will be released to the public.

The gop can't return to the polls without taking sides. THe press won't allow it. He's toxic. They'll have to distance themselves by impeaching the cretin.

He'll resign because his companies can't withstand the scrutiny of the investigators. He's not going to jail, so, he's got to cut a deal to leave. I think that's what his current blather is about: Keeping his numbers high enough with the bubba vote to negociate for a better release and no prosecution.

[Bradical79]

6. WV maybe is Jim Justice?

Link to tweet

Sold to Russian for $600,000,000. Bought back for $5,000,000

https://mountainmessenger.com/justice-buys-back-coal-mines-one-percent-selling-price/

For the sake of accuracy, looks like he got $568,000,000

That seems a tad bit fishy to me...

[ewagner]

9. Smells like money laundering....n/t

[Egnever]

13. Is this the new Clean coal mine cheeto was rambling about?

[Bradical79]

14. No, that was Pennsylvania

This guy is the Republican turned Democrat turned Republican governor. I know, it's tough to keep up with the sleazeball coal barons Trump sucks up to (and scams).

[leftynyc]

7. What is stopping either

Mr. Simpson or Mr. Steele from releasing those 40,000 to a news outlet? Anything?

[Bradical79]

8. I think exposing trusted sources to the public

Russian officials have been ending up dead at an alarming rate since all this started.

[ewagner]

10. Agree. n/t

[leftynyc]

11. That makes a lot of sense

but wont releasing those transcripts do the same thing? I would guess those sources are exactly what he was testifying about.

[L. Coyote]

12. CNN has this report:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/donald-trump-rick-dearborn-email-russia-investigation/index.html

Washington (CNN)Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin .....

.... While many details around the Dearborn email are unclear, its existence suggests the Russians may have been looking for another entry point into the Trump campaign to see if there were any willing partners as part of their effort to discredit -- and ultimately defeat -- Hillary Clinton.

Dearborn's name has not been mentioned much as part of the Russia probe. But he served as then-Sen. Jeff Sessions' chief of staff, as well as a top policy aide on the campaign. And investigators have questions about whether he played a role in potentially arranging two meetings that occurred between the then-Russia ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, and Sessions, who has downplayed the significance of those encounters.

Dearborn was involved in helping to arrange an April 2016 event at the Mayflower Hotel where Trump delivered a major foreign policy address, sources said. Kislyak attended the event and a reception beforehand, but it's unclear whether he interacted with Sessions there. ...............