Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are looking to determine how much President Trump knew about his campaign members’ contacts with Russian officials and representatives — if anything — during the 2016 race.
Investigators on Mueller’s team have questioned Sam Clovis, the co-chairman of Trump’s campaign, to determine what Trump knew during the campaign and subsequent presidential transition, Reuters reported Saturday.
“The ultimate question Mueller is after is whether candidate Trump and then President-elect Trump knew of the discussions going on with Russia, and who approved or even directed them,” one source told Reuters. “That is still just a question.”
Clovis, who currently serves as the senior White House adviser to the Agriculture Department, has already testified before the grand jury for Mueller’s probe, and is said to be “cooperative” in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Clovis has garnered attention in the probes after it was revealed that a former foreign policy adviser to the campaign, George Papadopoulos, told him last year about his connections with Russian representatives that could arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Mueller questions top Trump campaign aide on if Trump approved campaign contacts with Russia: report https://t.co/M8Etqj608L pic.twitter.com/r50kFp1xW8
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