WaPo: FBI Informant Is Ex-Professor Who Met With Three Trump Campaign Aides

on August 25, 2015 in Dubuque, Iowa.
DUBUQUE, IA - AUGUST 25: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) listens as Sam Clovis speaks at a press conference at the Grand River Center on August 25, 2015 in Dubuque, Iowa. Clovis recently quit his ... DUBUQUE, IA - AUGUST 25: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) listens as Sam Clovis speaks at a press conference at the Grand River Center on August 25, 2015 in Dubuque, Iowa. Clovis recently quit his position as Iowa campaign chairman for Rick Perry. Trump leads most polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The unnamed FBI source that President Donald Trump hopes to hunt down reportedly met with another Trump campaign adviser as a government informant in 2016.

The Washington Post reported Friday that in addition to Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, which the New York Times first reported Wednesday, the FBI informant also met with campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis.

The informant reportedly met Clovis for coffee in Northern Virginia in the summer of 2016 and offered to provide foreign policy expertise to the Trump campaign.

Described by WaPo as a “retired American professor” and a “longtime U.S. intelligence source,” the FBI informant began working for the agency as it “investigated Russia’s interference in the campaign” and “aided the Russia investigation both before and after special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s appointment in May 2017,” people familiar with his activities said.

However, it’s unknown when exactly the informant began working on the case.

Although Trump took to Twitter Friday to rail against the “all time biggest political scandal” of an FBI informant “implanted” into his campaign, WaPo reports there is “no evidence to suggest someone was planted with the campaign” and that “the source in question engaged in a months-long pattern of seeking out and meeting three different Trump campaign officials.”

WaPo notes that despite confirming the identity of the FBI informant, his name is not being reported in light of the FBI taking steps to protect the informant if their identity is revealed.

Read the full Washington Post report here.

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  1. Yep, bigger than Watergate.

    Now how’s about doubling those postage rates for Amazon?

  2. Stefan Halper— long time Bush family retainer and CIA operative who teaches at Cambridge and most likely operates a CIA station on that university campus. Poetic justice: Bush family loyalist outs Trump. Lovely.

  3. The Trump campaign meeting with an agent of US law enforcement is the “all time biggest political scandal”.

    But the Trump campaign repeatedly meeting with dozens of Kremlin agents is a “phony, made-up scandal”.

    Orwell was an underachiever.

  4. it’s unknown when exactly the informant began working on the case

    Bit it’s well known when Carter Page began working for the Kremlin.

  5. It’s interesting that according to Trump, FBI counterintelligence investigations of Russian interference with a few of his campaign aides constitute an investigation of him and his campaign, but the malfeasance done by those same people (and likely others) had nothing to do with him or his campaign.

    Which is it, did they operate on his behalf or not? (Not that I’m expecting any coherent or consistent explanation from his team)

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