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She is the former chairperson of the Council's health committee, and one of her campaign advisers is Jennifer Cunningham, is a former top operative with 1199 SEIU.

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Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

By that time, multiple senior members of the campaign had been in contact with high - ranking Russians, including incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

Their letter came on the heels of a controversial memo the House Intelligence Committee released earlier this month, which purports to show the FBI and Department of Justice abusing their surveillance authority to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign manager and an adviser to David Cameron's EU referendum campaign, wrote in 2015 that Jagger was «one of the savviest political observers.»

That was insufficient for Color of Change, a nonprofit racial - justice group that is demanding she resign as a Trump adviser with the #quitthecouncil campaign.

President Donald Trump praised James Comey for his honorable conduct during the 2016 campaign, sought out his loyalty, denied any involvement with prostitutes, and asked if the FBI director could let go of an investigation into his former national security adviser, according to contemporaneous memos Comey made to document those conversations.

The document claims that the Department of Justice and FBI bypassed proper protocol when they sought a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign adviser.

Many of the emails came from accounts belonging to Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, who was also Clinton's longtime aide and a senior adviser to her campaign, The Journal reported.

The memo, which suggests that FBI and DOJ officials misled a judge in seeking a warrant to extend secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, has sparked widespread controversy.

An early conflict - of - interest concern involved his law firm's representation of some of the people caught up in the investigation, including Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, and Jared Kushner, the president's son - in - law and senior adviser.

Trump did so again last month after the House Intelligence Committee released a controversial Republican memo purporting to show surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice in seeking to monitor an adviser to the Trump campaign.

That regulation states, in effect, that department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they have served as a campaign adviser.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said late Thursday.

While lawyers and advisers say it's common to hire investigators to do opposition research in the context of a proxy campaign, executives» kids — of any age — are typically considered off - limits.

Carter Page, the former adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign who is at the center of the memo controversy, boasted about his Russia contacts in a 2013 letter to an academic journal, TIME reported on Saturday.

Democrats on Thursday moved to press White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on his knowledge of Russian contacts with members of President Donald Trump's campaign.

«The fact that they have been included as part of the transition team just shows how inappropriate their role in bridging the gap between him as a businessman and politician is,» Meredith McGehee, a strategic adviser at the Campaign Legal Center, told the Washington Post.

The DOJ informed the FISA court that the Russia investigation was opened after the FBI learned of an interaction during which a Trump campaign adviser boasted that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

Thiel stated during the campaign that Trump offered a better hope of peace than Hillary Clinton, but Trump's closest adviser has said he expects to go to war with nuclear - armed China within a decade and envisions a civilizational clash with the entire Muslim world as well.

The Office of the Special Counsel also revealed Monday that George Papadopoulos, formerly a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contact with a Russian professor.

Carter Page, an early foreign - policy adviser to Trump's campaign, has also become a subject of FBI and congressional investigations.

George Papadopoulos, a former foreign - policy adviser to the campaign, pleaded guilty earlier this year to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and «high ranking sanctioned individuals» in Moscow over the summer as evidence of «significant and disturbing ties» between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.

He was one of the earliest backers of the president's political ambitions, and during the 2016 campaign served as a prominent adviser and spokesman, despite disagreements with others on the campaign.

Mr. Kushner, 35, the husband of Mr. Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, and an influential adviser to his father - in - law during the presidential campaign, had been planning to return to his private businesses after Election Day.

«Barack Obama believes in options: «Maintain my options,» «said Jeh C. Johnson, a campaign adviser and now general counsel of the Defense Department.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and trade adviser Peter Navarro were the co-authors of an important policy paper the Trump campaign put out during the election season that mostly focused on trade issues.

In late March, the campaign paid $ 22,000 to John McEntee, who joined as senior adviser for campaign operations after he was forced out of his position as Trump's personal assistant earlier in the month.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

The complaint also accuses the Tillis campaign and the state GOP of receiving illegal contributions from a super PAC led by John Bolton — now Trump's national security adviser — that also used Cambridge Analytica in pro-Tillis campaign activity.

But Mueller has charged three people who were in the Trump campaign inner circle — former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign chairman Richard Gates — all with ties to Russia and all of whom might be expected to be part of a collusion scheme, had one existed.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

Megachurch pastor Paula White, one of Trump's key evangelical advisers during the presidential campaign and in his administration, cheered the new initiative.

about the FBI's post-campaign monitoring of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

One of the architects of that Kansas plan, Stephen Moore, who was an economic adviser to Trump's presidential campaign, said the tax change would create «near immediate» growth in Kansas.

The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process.

First off, when Clovis first brought him on as a campaign adviser, he directed him that one of the campaign's top priorities would be improving ties to Russia, the document claims.

Flynn, who was Trump's national security adviser for 24 days and was also a top campaign adviser, has admitted to lying to the FBI about two of his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.

The document alleges abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties with Russia; it focuses almost entirely on FBI surveillance of the president's former adviser Carter Page and is thin on evidence of actual wrongdoing by the FBI.

Much of the questioning focused on Page's trip to Moscow in early July, while he was a Trump campaign adviser — because his description of that trip in emails sent at the time looks very different from his description of it now.

The Nunes memo focuses on surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser with business ties to Russia and open sympathies with the Kremlin's foreign policy.

His withdrawal is a casualty of this week's major developments in the Mueller probe — most notably, the revelation that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign whom Clovis supervised as national co-chair, had recently pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

The memo Duncan is referring to is a four - page memo written by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), which allegedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.

The DOJ appropriately provided the court with a comprehensive explanation of Russia's election interference, including evidence that Russian agents courted another Trump campaign foreign adviser, George Papadopoulos.

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

«Their theft costs us over $ 350 billion per year, so the bigger the better,» said Daniel DiMicco, a steel executive and trade adviser to the Trump campaign, referring to the forced transfer of intellectual property and other unfair practices alleged by the administration.