Report: Trump Aide Sent Email About Possible Meeting With Campaign, Putin

Trump deputy chief of staff for policy, Rick Dearborn, left, and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, right, walk down the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, following a meeting. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Trump deputy chief of staff for policy, Rick Dearborn, left, and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, right, walk down the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, ... Trump deputy chief of staff for policy, Rick Dearborn, left, and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, right, walk down the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, following a meeting. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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Investigators in Congress have discovered an email sent by a Trump campaign aide in June 2016 referencing an effort to set up a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

Rick Dearborn, who was Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff in the Senate as well as a Trump campaign aide at the time, sent the email passing along information from an individual from WV, a reference to West Virginia, sources told CNN. The individual was looking to connect the Trump campaign to Putin, CNN reported.

Dearborn (pictured above on the left), who is now the White House deputy chief of staff, seemed skeptical of the attempt to set up a meeting in the email, one source told CNN.

Dearborn was also involved in arranging Donald Trump’s speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., in April 2016, which was attended by then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Investigators are now questioning whether Dearborn helped arrange two separate meetings between Sessions and Kislyak, according to CNN.

The email from Dearborn about the individual looking to set up campaign officials in a meeting with Putin came at around the same time that Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer and Russian lobbyist at Trump Tower in New York.

Another Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, also made several attempts to arrange meetings between Trump campaign staff and Russian officials between March and September 2016, as the Washington Post reported earlier in August.

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  1. Smoke, meet Fire. Fire, Smoke.

    @Illiberal We may have to come to terms with the idea that trump didn’t do anything wrong.
    Aaaand,

  2. Rick Dearborn, who was Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff in the Senate as well as a Trump campaign aide at the time, sent the email passing along information from an individual from WV, a reference to West Virginia, sources told CNN.

    Hard to believe that Jeff Sessions didn’t know about this, which would probably be another thing he didn’t disclose. Maybe its time to look into Sessions emails, if they haven’t already been deleted.

  3. You joined 14 minutes ago just to post that crap?

  4. I do like the fact that he spelled Trump’s name in lower case. It seems appropriate.

  5. @srfromgr He has a bet with one of his basement bros that he can get banned before 0800. Pretty thin sauce however.

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