Exclusive: Top Trump aide's email draws new scrutiny in Russia inquiry

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN

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, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The aide, Rick Dearborn, who is now President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, sent a brief email to campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Trump officials with Putin, the sources said.

The person was only identified in the email as being from "WV," which one source said was a reference to West Virginia. It's unclear who the individual is, what he or she was seeking, or whether Dearborn even acted on the request. One source said that the individual was believed to have had political connections in West Virginia, but details about the request and who initiated it remain vague.

The same source said Dearborn in the email appeared skeptical of the requested meeting.

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

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Nice how the emails keep surfacing the same way they did to HRC

This is karma

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It's like illustrating their classic projection. nt

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Smoking gun?

[mpcamb]

6. Dunno, but he's going down real soon.

Hope nobody brokers him a good deal.
He deserves a public shaming rivaling Puritan times.
And, many times more importantly, a lasting pusuit over his ill-begotten money, his interest conflicts and tax dodging.
Chase that low-life to the ends of the earth...

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Please let this be true!

[apkhgp]

4. We have not reached the bottom yet

When you have smoke in this many places then I think there is going to be a fire down the road. The investigators are taking out a belt and they keep hitting 45 with it. If you listen close enough you can almost hear him bitch and complain.

[oasis]

5. As Joe Biden would say, "This is a big fucking deal".

[Tanuki]

8. The unidentified person from West Virginia....

sheer speculation on my part and nothing more, but I'm wondering about West Virginia Healy Baumgardner-Nardone. She was re-tweeting Gazprom earlier this week, and has many retweets related to Azerbaijani and other Central Asian gas and oil biggies. And there's this (and I know it relates to Malaysia, but other Trump friendlies seem to multitask their foreign government lobbying):

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN18M1D8

"Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has denied links to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump, after reports emerged that his office hired her company to lobby with the U.S. government.

A U.S. Department of Justice filing under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) last week showed a company called The 45 Group will be paid $25,000 a month to arrange meetings between officials from both countries.

"The 45 Group will also assist the Republic of Malaysia via the Godfrey Group, Ltd. with coordinating public relations efforts," according to the filing on FARA's website.

The West Virginia-based group was set up by Healy Baumgardner-Nardone, a former senior press aide to Trump's presidential campaign, who quit in September last year."....

[BumRushDaShow]

10. This suggests that investigators

need to (although they may have) look at EVERYONE currently or formerly involved in the campaign, and see what links they may have had to lobbying. All sorts of obscure folks are bubbling up now.

[Julian Englis]

9. K & R n/t