Mueller questioning RNC staffers about the GOP's joint data operation w/ Trump campaign, & coordinat

[MelissaB]

Mueller's team has reportedly begun to question Republican National Committee staffers about the GOP's joint data operation with the Trump campaign, and whether there was any coordination with Russia - Natasha Bertrand

Mueller is reportedly zeroing in on the Trump campaign's data operation and the RNC

*Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly begun to question Republican National Committee staffers about the party's digital work with the Trump campaign last year.
*The report indicates that Mueller may be homing in on yet another facet of Russia's election interference — its social media influence campaign and targeted political advertising.
*Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner managed the Trump campaign's data operation and recently hired a crisis public relations firm to handle all press inquiries.

Special counsel Robert Mueller has begun to question Republican National Committee staffers about the party's 2016 campaign data operation, which helped President Donald Trump's campaign team target voters in critical swing states.

Two sources told Yahoo News that Mueller's team is examining whether the joint RNC-Trump campaign data operation — which was directed on Trump's side by Brad Parscale and managed by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner — "was related to the activities of Russian trolls and bots aimed at influencing the American electorate."

The FBI has been scrutinizing Kushner's contacts in December 2016 with the Russian ambassador to the US and the CEO of a sanctioned Russian bank.

The special counsel's office declined to comment on its ongoing investigation. Multiple requests to various current and former RNC officials on Wednesday went unanswered. A source close to one of the Trump campaign's data firms said they were "unaware of anyone being questioned."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-questions-rnc-digital-operation-trump-campaign-russia-2017-12

[Iliyah]

1. Christie and Bannon both are pointing at

Golden Boy Kushner . . . are the dominoes falling? Yet, t-rump ain't biting nor tweeting attacks against them. Instead, t-rump and his allies are attacking the FBI and of course, like clock work, blaming HRC. Blaming Obama and the Clintons will NEVER stop, RWers do have an unhealthy obsessions with them, but I can see them turning on t-rump and crew when heavy heat is thrush upon them tho.

[L. Coyote]

2. K & R