Lest we all forget, in the midst of the insanely crazy couple of weeks popular vote loser Donald Trump is having, there is still a rather large and active investigation into his connections to, and collusion with, Russia and the Kremlin.According to a new report from CNN, 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.
Rick Dearborn, the aide in question, either misguidedly or unwittingly relayed info about an individual referred to only as “WV” who was “seeking to connect top Trump officials with Putin.” Some sources suggest that “WV” means West Virginia, but other identifying factors are yet to be revealed.The e-mail was dated June of 2016, which is, of course, around the time Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort were also present in that meeting, which has become a central focus of Mueller’s in the Russia probe.From CNN:
Intelligence experts say the request made by the unidentified West Virginian fits a pattern of Russians trying to gather human intelligence and seek unwilling — and sometimes unwitting partners — as part of their covert operations.“The Russians are really experts at this,” said Steve Hall, a retired CIA chief of Russia operations.