Trump confidant Stone met with purported Russian

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining a previously undisclosed meeting between Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone and a Russian figure who reportedly tried to sell him dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The meeting between Stone and a man who identified himself as Henry Greenberg was described in a pair of letters sent Friday to the House Intelligence Committee and first reported by The Washington Post.

Stone and Michael Caputo, a Trump campaign aide who arranged the 2016 meeting, did not disclose the contact in their interviews with the committee. But they now suspect that the man was an FBI informant trying to set them up to undermine Trump’s campaign. Greenberg denied that he was working for the FBI when he met with Stone.

The letters written by lawyers for Stone and Caputo state that in late May 2016, Caputo received a call from his Russian business partner introducing him to Greenberg.

At Caputo’s request, Stone met with Greenberg at a Florida cafe, where Greenberg asked for $2 million in exchange for the information, according to Stone’s lawyer. Stone rejected the offer.

Both men say they quickly forgot about the episode, which marks the latest in a long list of unusual contacts between Russians and Trump campaign officials as well as offers of help.

Trump, meanwhile, has tried to discredit the Mueller investigation.

“WITCH HUNT!” Trump tweeted on Sunday, insisting: “There was no Russian Collusion. Oh, I see, there was no Russian Collusion, so now they look for obstruction on the no Russian Collusion.”