Senators seek new Trump campaign emails in bipartisan Russia oversight

[riversedge]

Source: Politico





By ELANA SCHOR 03/29/2018 02:23 PM EDT


The Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman and top Democrat on Thursday released a request for new emails from two senior campaign aides to President Donald Trump, taking a fresh bipartisan step in their investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the panel’s chairman, and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a letter earlier this week to the Trump campaign’s attorney seeking emails from Rick Dearborn, who went on to play a prominent role in the presidential transition before reportedly leaving the White House earlier this year, and John Mashburn, who served as the campaign’s policy director and remains in the administration.

Grassley and Feinstein noted in their letter that their previous requests for 21 Trump campaign aides’ emails resulted in the receipt of more than 28,000 pages of documents, adding that “information obtained in a recent Committee interview warrants expanding those searches” to include Dearborn and Mashburn.


Dearborn, a former top aide to Attorney General Jeff Sessions during Sessions’ Senate career, reportedly received an email in 2016 from an individual seeking to connect the Trump campaign with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Mashburn, like Dearborn, was among the officials notified of efforts to effect a Russia-friendly change to the 2016 GOP platform.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/29/senators-seek-new-trump-campaign-emails-in-bipartisan-russia-oversight-491530

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umm...a little activity after a long dry spell.

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[Botany]

1. Even republicans are in on the act now?

Trump's blood is in the water.

[Leghorn21]

2. Well I have no clue what the hells going on, but this is GOOD NEWS!!! Thanks, river! nt

[chuckstevens]

3. Don't trust Chuckles

He's a total GOP loyalist and a proven fraud!

[flibbitygiblets]

4. He's just playing "pretend investigator" so he won't look like that toady Nunes

No one's buying it, including DiFi. But she'll take whatever help she can get.

[True Blue American]

5. Grassley has been around a long time

Maybe he does not want to go down with the ship.

Or, maybe he has a grain of love for his own country. Who knows?

Watching Nunes, Gowdy, Chaffetz and others in his party act shamefully he wants no part of it.

Certainly loyalty to this toad in the WH pays off fo no one. Trump’s spiteful actions are now bearing rotten fruit.