Key aide wrote of Putin meet

RUSSIA WAS really reaching out.

A newly unearthed email sent to Trump campaign officials last summer from an aide close to the President detailed possible plans for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report on Wednesday.

Rick Dearborn, currently serving as White House deputy chief of staff, sent the email to fellow senior campaign staffers about a person who wanted to connect them with Putin, sources told CNN.

The email was sent in June 2016, the same month Donald Trump Jr. set up a meeting with the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.

Dearborn, who was a policy adviser to the campaign at the time, was reportedly skeptical of the request. The person offering to set up the confab only identified as being from “WV.” A source told CNN the “WV” may refer to someone with political ties in West Virginia.

“We aren’t going to comment on potentially leaked documents,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN.

The revelation comes as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.