2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Trump campaign adviser was in touch in the fall of 2016 with a person he said was a Russian former spy, special counsel Robert Mueller’s office said in a court filing that links cases against top former Trump aides with the wider probe into Moscow’s election meddling. Richard Gates, the campaign adviser, told London-based lawyer Alex van der Zwaan that his longtime business associate in Ukraine was a ‘former Russian intelligence officer,’ with the GRU, Russia’s military-intelligence agency, prosecutors on Mr. Mueller’s team wrote in a memo filed in federal court late Tuesday [3-27-18]. The three men communicated in September and October 2016, when Mr. Gates worked with Donald Trump’s campaign, according to the prosecutors’ document. Mr. van der Zwaan has admitted he hid from prosecutors the fact that the three men were in touch that recently. The conversations among the men concerned the potential criminal prosecution in Ukraine of Mr. van der Zwaan and others, according to court documents.”
–Aruma Viswanatha, “Robert Mueller Links Trump Campaign Aide With Russian Ex-Spy,” The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 28, 2018 5:31pm