Senate tips off it may already have exchanges between Trump Tower email server and Russian bank
Back in October of last year, Slate first reported on an email server inside Trump Tower that was only communicating with a Russian bank and a handful of other specifically chosen entities (link). In February of this year, Palmer Report was the first to piece together that one of the server’s other targets was a Michigan company controlled by Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (link). Now we have evidence that the Senate is focusing squarely on that server, and may already have its contents.
Last night the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter (link) to Donald Trump Jr. demanding that he testify about his role in the Russia scandal, and that he surrender any communications he had with a list of Trump-connected and Russia-connected individuals and entities. Among them: Alfa Group. That’s the Russian bank that the Trump Tower email server was communicating with all along. The committee also sent a letter to Eric Trump, on the basis that he’s the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, demanding that he turn over any communications the Organization had with Alfa Group.
I’ve spoken with trial attorneys who have experience in sending letters like this to the opposite side, demanding that documents and communications be preserved. They’ve told me that often times, they make these demands because they already have their own copies of the records in question. They’re hoping the other side will panic and delete those records, because it’ll make them look guilty. So the Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to ask Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization for its communications with Alfa Bank is a sign that investigators may already have those communications.
As Palmer Report has previously pointed out (link), at least one data expert who has examined the data trail between the Trump Tower server and the Russian bank has concluded that it couldn’t have merely been email, and was instead a method of sharing stolen voter registration data. If this is the case, and if the Senate has that data, then Trump has already been nailed on election collusion and much worse, and he just doesn’t know it yet.
