Jill Stein said Tuesday she is cooperating with the Senate intelligence committee’s probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
Former Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Tuesday she is cooperating with the Senate intelligence committee’s probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
Investigators requested campaign-related documents and committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N. C) said bluntly that he and his colleagues were looking for “collusion with the Russians.”
Stein reportedly piqued the interest of investigators partly because she attended a 2015 dinner sponsored by Russian television network RT with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Stein was photographed with Trump’s ex-national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Putin at the same table during a December 2015 dinner in Moscow.
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Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials earlier this month and is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
Documents turned over to the panel show that Stein “made the trip with the goal of reaching an international audience and Russian officials with a message of Middle East peace, diplomacy and cooperation against the urgent threat of climate change, consistent with long-standing Green principles and policies,” she said.
The Senate investigation has largely focused on Russian interference in the presidential contest and whether President Trump’s campaign, investigators are following multiple leads.
The top Democrat on the panel, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, would not confirm the investigation into Stein but referenced the “infamous dinner” with Putin. Michael Flynn, who later became Trump’s national security adviser, also attended the 2015 dinner in Moscow.
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Warner also said Stein had said complimentary things about Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who Warner said “clearly was being used by the Russians to take some of the hacked information and release into our political system.”
WikiLeaks released stolen emails from several Democratic officials during the campaign.
Assange denies receiving the material from Russia.
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