Joe McCarthy would love it

Here's your witch hunt.

The top congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has set its sights on the Green Party and its nominee, Jill Stein, according to a former campaign employee.

  Buzzfeed

The Democratic party can't win on its own merits. What to do? Take out the party to your left while the party to your right is destroying itself. That's the ticket.

Trainor, who has done on-and-off work for Stein since formally leaving the campaign in 2015, said he is inclined to cooperate with the committee’s request but wants to first seek legal counsel. He said he believes Stein plans to comply as well and post the documents on her own website “in an effort to show complete transparency and kind of wage her own war against [...] what I imagine she thinks is an overblown investigation into collusion.”

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Trainor, who has done on-and-off work for Stein since formally leaving the campaign in 2015, said he is inclined to cooperate with the committee’s request but wants to first seek legal counsel. He said he believes Stein plans to comply as well and post the documents on her own website “in an effort to show complete transparency and kind of wage her own war against [...] what I imagine she thinks is an overblown investigation into collusion.”

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The Senate Judiciary mentioned her in a letter to Donald Trump Jr. in July, requesting copies of “all communications to, from, or copied” to the president’s son that related to Stein and a long list of other, more prominent figures in the investigations. Trainor said he would be surprised if Stein ever communicated with Trump Jr., who participated in an interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors for more than nine hours last Wednesday. “Don Jr. has been incredibly cooperative with the committee,” Burr said Thursday.

Stein’s name has also come up in the context of a 2015 dinner hosted by RT in Moscow. Stein sat at the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn.

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Stein has said that unlike Flynn, she was not paid to attend the dinner and paid for her own travel costs.

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Trainor said he believes the committee is primarily interested in Stein’s appearances on RT, “vilifying anyone who’s ever appeared on or talked with anyone on the RT network.”

A January assessment from the Intelligence Community on Russian election meddling called RT a “propaganda outlet.” And the Justice Department recently ordered RT to register as an agent of the Russian government.

For all I know, the Green Party looked into working with the Trump campaign as an angle to knock back Clinton and the Democrats. I'd be very surprised if they were actively and knowingly working with Russia.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/07/intercepted-podcast-the-woman-democrats-love-to-hate/

Spoiler:  She was there to talk about peace and reducing nukes, with Russians and other countries.  Putin sat at the table between 5-20 minutes waiting to make a speech and barely spoke to anyone.  She was not one of them.  He didn't return to the table after his speech.  There was no intention to have a table discussion amongst the specific people there.  She was offered money for travel and board, but she turned it down and spent her own.