LEAKED TEXTS show Democrat contacted Trump dossier author through RUSSIANS!!

Fox News dropped an exclusive they got through a Republican leaking information apparently from the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Here’s Jim Jordan doing as much as possible to make this story a thing:

More from Fox News:

Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who was offering Warner access to former British spy and dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages obtained exclusively by Fox News.

“We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country,” Warner texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, on March 22, 2017.

“I’m in,” Waldman, whose firm has ties to Hillary Clinton, texted back to Warner.

Steele famously put together the anti-Trump dossier of unverified information that was used by FBI and Justice Department officials in October 2016 to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of former Trump adviser Carter Page. Despite the efforts, Steele has not agreed to an interview with the committee.

 Secrecy seemed very important to Warner as the conversation with Waldman heated up March 29, when the lobbyist revealed that Steele wanted a bipartisan letter from Warner and the committee’s chairman, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, inviting him to talk to the Senate intelligence panel.Throughout the text exchanges, Warner seemed particularly intent on connecting directly with Steele without anyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee being in the loop — at least initially. In one text to the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would “rather not have a paper trail” of his messages.

This sounds like a lot of nothing to me. Warner is trying to contact Steele because he’s at the center of the controversy of the Trump dossier. That he did some of it furtively is not completely absurd.

Another Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee agrees – that’s Marco Rubio:

Also, I thought these guys were outrageously outraged that anyone would leak information or that any nefarious mainstream outlet would publish leaked info? I guess it’s OK if it’s on the right, just like everything else.

Unless there’s some evidence that he was doing something nefarious, this just doesn’t merit the outrageous outrage that some are giving it…


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