BOMBSHELL: Dem Senator Contacted Russian Firm with Ties to Hillary, Wanted NO ‘PAPER TRAIL’

BOMBSHELL: Dem Senator Contacted Russian Firm with Ties to Hillary, Wanted NO ‘PAPER TRAIL’
By Zack Jefferson - February 9, 2018061
Bad news for Democrats keeps mounting.
It is now being reported that a Democrat senator contacted a Russian lobbyist to get in touch with the author of the Trump dossier.
He wanted no paper trail – plus the firm has connections to the Clintons!
Here are the details…

From Daily Wire:

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who is leading a congressional investigation into alleged ties between President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and members of the Russian government, has been caught communicating privately with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch last year as he tried to get in touch with Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) engaged in extensive communications in 2017 with Adam Waldman, a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who was offering access to Steele, an ex-British spy who was hired by Fusion GPS after the opposition research firm was contracted by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to produce dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.

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Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Warner put out a joint statement condemning the leaks. Burr told Fox News that he was aware that Warner contacted a Russian-connected representative for Steele but was not aware of the content contained in the newly-revealed text messages.

See the texts below…

TEXTS: Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort to contact Christopher Steele by Fox News on Scribd

More from Fox News:

Secrecy seemed very important to Warner as the conversation with Waldman heated up March 29, when the lobbyist revealed that Steele wanted a bipartisan letter from Warner and the committee’s chairman, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, inviting him to talk to the Senate intelligence panel.

Throughout the text exchanges, Warner seemed particularly intent on connecting directly with Steele without anyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee being in the loop — at least initially. In one text to the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would “rather not have a paper trail” of his messages.

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