Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says it’s getting more difficult for him to believe that President Trump didn’t know about at least some of his campaign’s contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential election.
“With each subsequent revelation of yet another meeting between someone from the Trump camp and Russians, it gets harder and harder to believe that he didn’t know about at least some of them,” Clapper told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” Monday. “Just statistically, it’s illogical. … It’s difficult for me to believe that he didn’t know about some of these meetings.”
"Why so many meetings with the Russians? The Russians are our adversaries" – Former DNI James Clapper reacts to former Trump operative Roger Stone's 2016 meeting with Russian who wanted $2M for Clinton dirt https://t.co/C3MawM8Ko9 pic.twitter.com/pFY0WY1iN8
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) June 18, 2018
Clapper’s comments come after it was revealed this week that former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone met with a Russian man ahead of the 2016 election who offered dirt on Hillary Clinton in exchange for $2 million from Trump.
Clapper said the revelation fell into a pattern of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, similar to the famous Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016.
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Ex-Intel chief: It's getting "harder and harder to believe" Trump didn't know about Russia contacts https://t.co/DiZiqRGlUU pic.twitter.com/rTxDwFKOrW
— The Hill (@thehill) June 19, 2018
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