Trump-Russia emails suggest Moscow's attempt to infiltrate the campaign may have gone further than we knew

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Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos reportedly tried to set up multiple Trump-Russia meetings during the campaign, according to newly-reported emails.

Revelations on Monday that George Papadopoulos, a short-term foreign-policy adviser on President Donald Trump's campaign, tried to set up multiple meetings between candidate Trump and Russian leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin, may shed more light on the extent of Russia's efforts to recruit those within Trump's orbit perceived as sympathetic to Moscow.

Although it appears that Papadopoulos' attempts yielded no results after multiple campaign officials expressed concerns about the legality of such meetings, the requests themselves signify that Russia's efforts to infiltrate the Trump campaign may have extended to more than just high-ranking advisers.

"Part of the reason active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander-in-chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents," Watts said, pointing to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's and Trump's citations of fake-news stories pushed out by Russian-linked entities last year.

Since the FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow, several other prominent members of Trump's inner circle - like son-in-law Jared Kushner, attorney general Jeff Sessions, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn - have attracted scrutiny for communicating with Russian officials in ways that raised red flags with the US intelligence community.

While working on Trump's campaign, Papadopolous sent the first email proposing a Trump-Russia meeting to seven campaign advisers in March 2016 with the subject line "Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin." His requests were reportedly met with hesitancy from multiple campaign officials, including retired Navy Rear Adm.

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