Security contractor Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, helped finance an effort to obtain Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails in 2016, according to the publicly released version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
At a July 2016 press conference, Trump asked Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, but according to the report, he privately and repeatedly « asked individuals affiliated with his campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails. » The report said Flynn told investigators that Trump repeatedly asked him about the emails, and that he in turn tried to get them.
