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Trump campaign adviser: Sessions 'would have told me' if he knew about Papadapoulos' push for Trump-Putin meeting

Top Trump campaign officials "did not know" that a low-level adviser "continued to try and arrange" a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
  • 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

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