An email has been unearthed by the Congressional investigators that revealed that United States President Donald Trump's campaign officials made an effort to arrange a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last year.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is leading the FBI's inquiry into Russia's meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and this new email will put President Trump into scrutiny.
President Trump's deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn had sent a brief mail to the campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Trump officials with Putin, CNN reported.
The emails were part of a set of 20,000 that were turned over to Congress a few months ago as part of the investigation into alleged ties between the campaign team and Russia.
The person was only identified in the email as being from "WV," which one source said was a reference to West Virginia.
It's unclear who the individual is, what he or she was seeking, or whether Dearborn even acted on the request. One source said that the individual was believed to have had political connections in West Virginia, but details about the request and who initiated it remain vague.
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The email was sent in June 2016 around the time when Trump Tower meeting took place where Russians having close with Putin government ties met with the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner as well as then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
The group of Soviet-born individuals that top Trump campaign officials met last summer include a cast of characters:
Rinat Akhmetshin, a Soviet-born US citizen who has been tied to the same lobbying scrutiny, Rob Goldstone,Anatoli Samochornov, a translator who reportedly served as the interpreter for the meeting.
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