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New reports suggest that President Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer personally tried to discredit a story about the Trump campaign’s alleged contacts with Russian intelligence officials.
Spicer asked CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr, R-N.C., and House Intelligence Committee Chairman David Nunes, R-Calif., to contact reporters from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, according to Axios. Their mission was to convince those reporters of the falsehood of a recent story by The New York Times about the Trump campaign having contacts with powerful Russians during the 2016 election. One …read more
Source: Salon
