— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2018That latter claim hinged on a column by McCarthy from last week speculating about the presence of an FBI informant embedded in Trump’s campaign. A long article published Wednesday by the New York Times bolsters the idea that there was an informant. The FBI’s investigation appears to have focused at the outset on four people associated with the Trump campaign: Papadopoulos; Page, a campaign adviser; retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn; and campaign chairman Paul Manafort. “Putting a cooperating witness or an informant inside the campaign?” he said. “That would be on the outside of what I would think would be acceptable investigative techniques.”It’s not clear how an informant seeking information about people associated with the Trump campaign might have gone about doing so.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2018 14:57 UTC