Trump compared the alleged bugging to the Watergate scandal, but he has not offered any evidence to back up his claims. The White House cited reports “from BBC, Heat Street, New York Times, Fox News, among others” to justify the claims. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)After combing through these news reports, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler concluded that the piece by Mensch in Heat Street was “the most important” of the lot. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia.” She cited “two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community” as evidence for those claims. She helped to launch Heat Street last year but left that role in December and is focusing on creating digital media projects for the company.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 17:07 UTC