Updates | The Week of August 21, 2017
Ian Eppler // 8/24/17 //
- Congressional investigators have located an email from Trump campaign aide Rick Dearborn in which he referenced efforts to arrange a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Vladimir Putin (CNN).
- Glenn Simpson, co-founder of a firm behind the controversial opposition research dossier on President Trump, spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors (The Hill).
- Congressional inquiries related to Russian interference gain significance as speculation continues about President Trump’s plans to end Robert Mueller’s investigation; Faiza Patel, at Just Security, offers 20 questions for the investigators.
- When investigating a businessperson like President Trump, you have to follow the money, writes Adam Davidson in a lengthy analysis of President Trump’s business dealings for the New Yorker.
- Donald Trump Jr. is in Robert Mueller’s crosshairs, as the special counsel tries to determine Trump Jr.’s intent when attended the controversial June, 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer (Buzzfeed).
- Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian immigrant who met last summer with senior Trump campaign officials, is under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller, and has deeper ties to the Russian government than previously known (NYT).