- The campaign's national cochairman, Sam Clovis, brought Papadopoulos onto the campaign and received some of the emails but did not tell Gordon or Sessions about them, Gordon said in an interview.
- Clovis "should have told me and the senator" about the emails, Gordon said.
The former director of the Trump campaign's national security advisory committee said that he and Jeff Sessions, then the committee's chairman, "did not know" that a low-level adviser "
And in August, Clovis encouraged Papadopoulos and another unnamed foreign policy adviser to "make the trip" to Russia, "if it is feasible."
Gordon said on Thursday that he is