{"id":57833,"date":"2017-11-12T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/russia-investigation-focuses-in-on-what-donald-trump-and-top-aides-knew\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:15:25","slug":"russia-investigation-focuses-in-on-what-donald-trump-and-top-aides-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/russia-investigation-focuses-in-on-what-donald-trump-and-top-aides-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew<\/b>
\nSpecial counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s team has questioned Sam Clovis, co-chairman of Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign, to determine if the President or top aides knew of the extent of the campaign team\u2019s contacts with Russia, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday.<\/p>\n

The focus of the questions put to Clovis by Mueller\u2019s team has not been previously reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-electTrump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them,\u201d said one source. \u201cThat is still just a question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clovis testified in late October before the grand jury in Mueller\u2019s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He is also cooperating with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating the same issues.<\/p>\n

Contacted late on Friday, the White House declined to comment, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n

One of the sources described Clovis as \u201canother domino\u201d after former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his own contacts with Russians during the 2016 election campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe investigators now know what Papadopoulos was doing on the Russian front, which he initially tried to conceal, and who he told that to,\u201d said the other source. \u201cNow [they] want to know whether Clovis and others reported these activities and others related to Russia, and if so, to whom,\u201d this source said.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for Clovis did not respond to requests for comment. Lawyers for Papadopoulos had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

According to court documents related to Papadopoulos\u2019 guilty plea, he reported to Clovis in an email on a March 24, 2016, meeting he had in London with a professor later identified as Joseph Mifsud.<\/p>\n

Mifsud in turn introduced him to a Russian woman<\/a> and the Russian ambassador in London, and they discussed setting up meetings to talk about US-Russia ties in a Trump presidency.<\/p>\n

The documents showed Clovis responded to the proposed meetings by saying he would \u201cwork it through the campaign.\u201d While he told Papadopoulos not to make a commitment then to set up those meetings, he congratulated him for \u201cgreat work.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August 2016, after Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, Clovis encouraged Papadopoulos to \u201cmake the trip\u201d when Papadopoulos proposed going to an off-the-record meeting with unnamed Russian officials, the court documents show.<\/p>\n

Victoria Toensing, one of Clovis\u2019s lawyers, said last week her client \u201calways vigorously opposed any Russian trip for Donald Trump and\/or the campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n

After Papadopoulos\u2019 guilty plea, the White House and former Trump campaign officials dismissed Papadopoulos and Clovis as minor figures in the campaign.<\/p>\n

The campaign\u2019s National Security Advisory Committee, which Clovis formed, has become a focus of the investigations by both Mueller and the Senate, sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam built the first group of eight,\u201d J.D. Gordon, the director of the campaign foreign policy group, told Reuters, adding that he and then-Senator Jeff Sessions, now the US Attorney General, had \u201cnearly doubled\u201d it in size.<\/p>\n

However, two other sources familiar with the investigations said investigators have been told the committee Clovis formed did very little, and that other advisers appeared to carry more weight with Trump.
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Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s team has questioned Sam Clovis, co-chairman of Donald Trump\u2019s election campaign, to determine if the President or top aides knew of the extent of the campaign team\u2019s contacts with Russia, two sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday. … Continue reading Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nRussia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/russia-investigation-focuses-in-on-what-donald-trump-and-top-aides-knew\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia Investigation Focuses In On What Donald Trump And Top Aides Knew - 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