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WASHINGTON — Former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he was the unnamed American consultant targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover in a high - profile 2015 New York spy case.

Former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he was the unnamed American consultant targeted for recruitment by Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover in a high - profile 2015 New York spy case.

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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.

All the more so because he was a leading adviser to the Republican nominee's presidential campaign at the time.

The letter ended with a request for «all documents and communications referring or relating» to Flynn's contacts with foreign persons during the presidential campaign, the transition period, and his tenure as national security adviser, and after he resigned in February.

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.

And I don't mean that as a compliment, even though I served as a foreign policy adviser to Rubio's presidential campaign.

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

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.

It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

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.

Private Twitter messages obtained by The Atlantic show that Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Trump, corresponded with WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign.

He met Mark Zuckerberg his freshman year at Harvard, co-founded Facebook and later became a digital adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Long, a Manhattan lawyer and judicial activist, also serves on the Romeny campaign as a legal adviser, and has stopped short of calling on the expected GOP presidential nominee from doing the same.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he believes former President Obama's foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes was aware of a dossier about Trump that circulated during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The grand jury investigating alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign has sent a witness a subpoena seeking all documents involving the president and a host of his closest advisers.

Trump's lawyer, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said there was nothing illegal about Trump campaign advisers meeting with a Russian lawyer purportedly offering dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

@Ame The legality will be decided by the investigating attorneys and judges, but I think it is safe to say that a campaign adviser agreeing to meet with someone alleged to be the representative of a hostile government who wants to help a candidate win a presidential election is HIGHLY unusual, if not unprecedented.

The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

Michael Caputo, a Western New York political adviser and former aide to Trump's presidential campaign, reportedly has been contacted by the FBI regarding the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

Michael Caputo, a Western New York political adviser and former aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has been contacted by the FBI regarding the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the election, according to sources.

Clinton is weak with white men, and Democrats think Biden could be particularly useful with that group in a general election against Republican presidential front - runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE.

«If the Democrats are so desperate to motivate their base that they have to resort to the issue of gun control, then they are in for a long 2016 election cycle,» said Chris LaCivita, a GOP strategist and adviser to Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign.

He was deputy campaign manager for now - Secretary of State John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid, and served as a key adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, despite overtures from then - Sen.

After working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gallagher served as national security adviser to Gov. Scott Walker's presidential campaign.

Republican presidential front - runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE during a radio interview appeared to question the circumstances surrounding Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death.

Republican presidential front - runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE says he has no regrets about his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

Hillary Clinton has said she was «dismayed» by sexual harassment accusations against a senior «faith» adviser to her 2008 presidential campaign, but said the case was «taken seriously and addressed.»

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter late Sunday weighed into the debate over Republican presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE's increasingly physical campaign events, calling for «a little more violence.»

GOP presidential front - runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE suggested boycotting Starbucks over the holiday cup controversy.

One of the major reasons Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign could not compete with the Obama - Biden Internet team was the high - tech community's enthusiasm for the Democratic nominee, advisers to the McCain campaign said Saturday.

The change in direction is being supported by two US advisers recently hired by the Tories, both veterans of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE on Sunday said he wouldn't characterize his second - place finish in the Iowa caucuses a «loss,» arguing that he still did very well and would have come in first if primary rival Ted Cruz hadn't taken votes from Ben Carson.

A top adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, is leaving the Obama administration to manage Clinton's likely presidential campaign in Iowa, four Democrats familiar with the move said.

Trump's campaign has picked up another top adviser as it seeks to professionalize its day - to - day operations, this one coming most recently from Gov. Chris Christie's presidential campaign.

Reuters: «U.S. President Donald Trump's son - in - law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, seven current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.»

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year's presidential race, because he has been galled by Donald Trump's dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton's stumbles and the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.

A fall 2016 application for a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant targeting a former Trump campaign adviser has become the latest front in the partisan struggle over the investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election.

Luke Thorburn, a financial adviser who was recently highlighted in an article in The New York Times as the only Goldman Sachs employee to contribute to Trump's presidential campaign, has been placed on administrative leave, according to people familiar with the matter.

(CNN)- A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates.

These former advisers didn't have hard evidence that Russian trolls were using Facebook to micro-target voters in swing districts - at least not yet - but they shared their theories with the House and Senate intelligence committees, which launched parallel investigations into Russia's role in the presidential campaign in January.

Gingrich, a former Republican presidential candidate who was a Trump campaign adviser, largely used his 17 - minute speech to analyze the often - inscrutable president - elect.

A former adviser to President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonTrump, taxpayers want Title X funding protected from abortion clinics President Trump's historic rescissions package is a welcome step to cut wasteful spending America will be stronger with our immigration policy based on facts MORE predicts «a tough road» for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE as she prepares to possibly announce a 2016 presidential campaign in coming months.

Donald Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon, and promoting a senior adviser in an effort to right his faltering campaign.

The long - awaited move, which comes as Clintonites take the reins of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), could inject more money into Clinton's campaign coffers as she seeks to expand her fundraising advantage over presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE.

A top adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, is leaving the Obama administration to manage Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely presidential campaign in Iowa, four Democrats familiar with the move said Wednesday.

Ms. Farley is currently laying the groundwork to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand this year, and has begun assembling a campaign team, including John Brabender, a former adviser to the presidential candidate Rick Santorum, and the pollster John McLaughlin.

Williams» donor list indicates support, in spots, from the upper echelons of Clinton and Obama worlds: His contributors include Pete Rouse, a senior adviser to Obama, and Maggie Williams, a longtime Clinton aide who helped run the 2008 presidential campaign after the initial leadership was ousted.

The former communications director for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE's presidential campaign said Sunday that the Trump administration is igniting passion in the opposition never before seen in the United States.