2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked four foreign policy advisers to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign for documents about their contacts with Russians and discussions about Russia.
Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday sent letters to former Trump campaign advisers Carter Page, Sam Clovis, J.D. Gordon, and Walid Phares asking them for a range of materials about their contacts with Russians, as well as with each other and other Trump campaign advisers.
Feinstein also asked some of the advisers to turn over any documents they have related to efforts to obtain or share ‘hacked’ emails or other electronic data belonging to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Clinton herself, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee.
She asked Gordon about efforts during the 2016 Republican presidential convention in Cleveland to soften proposed party platform language related to Russia and Ukraine.
Convention delegate Diana Denman told Reuters in August 2016 that she had proposed platform language urging the United States to provide ‘lethal defensive weapons’ to Ukraine’s armed forces, but that Gordon told her he was going to speak to Trump about her proposal, which was not added to the platform.”
-Mark Hosenball, “Senate Democrat presses Trump campaign advisors for Russia contacts,” Reuters, Nov. 29, 2017 11:20am