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EXCLUSIVE: Mueller probes an event with Nunes, Flynn, and foreign officials at Trump’s D.C. hotel. @ErinBanco, @swin24, @woodruffbets, and @attackerman report: trib.al/02X3wgU
@ErinBanco @swin24 @woodruffbets @attackerman The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors are scrutinizing a meeting involving Devin Nunes, Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations trib.al/02X3wgU
@ErinBanco @swin24 @woodruffbets @attackerman The breakfast event took place at 8:30 a.m. at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. on Jan. 18, 2017—days before Trump’s inauguration. About 60 people were invited, including diplomats from governments around the world, according to those same sources trib.al/02X3wgU
@ErinBanco @swin24 @woodruffbets @attackerman The breakfast has come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors in Manhattan as part of their probe into whether the Trump inaugural committee misspent funds and if donors tried to buy influence in the White House trib.al/02X3wgU
@ErinBanco @swin24 @woodruffbets @attackerman The Special Counsel’s Office is also looking at the breakfast as part of its investigation into whether foreigners contributed money to the Trump inaugural fund and PAC by possibly using American intermediaries trib.al/02X3wgU
@ErinBanco @swin24 @woodruffbets @attackerman Now Nunes—a key figure behind the right-wing counter narrative that Trump is at the mercy of a “Deep State” conspiracy—finds at least one meeting that he himself attended under the special counsel’s scrutiny trib.al/02X3wgU
