# Russia probe reaches White House **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 19, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025 "2017-05-19T19:18:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/1 "2017-05-19T19:18:06Z")
An unnamed current White House official described as being “close” to the president is being viewed as a significant person of interest, according to the Washington Post. > **[Russia probe reaches current White House official, people familiar with the...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-probe-reaches-current-white-house-official-people-familiar-with-the-case-say/2017/05/19/7685adba-3c99-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.23d6fb7aecbc)** > > The probe has intensified in recent weeks, and people say more subpoenas and interviews are on the way. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/2 "2017-05-19T19:40:59Z")
This coincides with another report about someone trying to climb over the White House fence. However, this one was trying to escape. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/3 "2017-05-19T19:50:48Z")
Let’s hear some wild speculation–if it’s someone close to the president, and it’s not the president, who do we think it might be? Sessions? Bannon? Someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/4 "2017-05-19T19:51:42Z")
Jared ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/5 "2017-05-19T19:52:39Z")
Ivanka. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/6 "2017-05-19T19:53:37Z")
All of the above. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/7 "2017-05-19T19:55:11Z")
Melania’s real name is Natasha. > [@elucidator](#): > > This coincides with another report about someone trying to climb over the White House fence. However, this one was trying to escape. Build… That… Wall!!! Build… That… Wall!!! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/8 "2017-05-19T19:59:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Melania’s real name is Natasha. > > Build… That… Wall!!! > > Build… That… Wall!!! Kill moose and squirrel! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/9 "2017-05-19T19:59:20Z")
Jared is certainly plausible. Bannon hasn’t been at it long enough to have been a part of Trump’s businesses, so any financial angle wouldn’t make sense, and all of Trump’s Russian-linked buddies aren’t in the White House (Flynn, Manafort, Stone). I doubt that Ivanka would be guilty of anything that Jared isn’t, and the guy is always the one who takes the fall, so she’s probably safe. That leaves Jared or one of Trump’s bodyguards (Keith Schiller, Gary Uher, etc.) ETA: Forgot about Melania. No idea on her. That’d be a HELL of a surprise to have the FLOTUS arrested. So much for Presidential immunity! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/10 "2017-05-19T20:05:12Z")
The youngsters have no idea what it was like back in the good 'ol days of the Cold War. The Ruskies were the bad guys, but they were the GOOD bad guys. I mean, we had an understanding!!! All that is lost now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/11 "2017-05-19T20:08:23Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Jared > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Ivanka. Barron. It’s always the one you least suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/12 "2017-05-19T20:10:06Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The youngsters have no idea what it was like back in the good 'ol days of the Cold War. The Ruskies were the bad guys, but they were the GOOD bad guys. I mean, we had an understanding!!! All that is lost now. ☹ They pointed nuclear weapons at us. We pointed nuclear weapons at them. And everyone was really polite. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/13 "2017-05-19T20:22:47Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Jared My bet too. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/14 "2017-05-19T20:24:28Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > My bet too. And mine. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/15 "2017-05-19T20:28:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Barron. > > It’s always the one you least suspect. Probably he’s a Russian midget super spy. DT: “But you told me he was our kid!” MT: “No, remember, you introduced us!” DT: “Was that before or after our meeting with Boris and Sergei?” ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/16 "2017-05-19T20:33:16Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Jared > [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > My bet too. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > And mine. Yeah, it would have to be someone who had been with the campaign early on. Bannon wasn’t brought in until after the Russian interference came to light. Let’s hope so, as Jared’s arrest would hurt the Trumps personally, not just politically. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/17 "2017-05-19T20:36:05Z")
White House Counsel Whats-his-face. He’s a lawyer. Any questions? ---
**Author:** ![quimper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7c8e57/32.png) [@quimper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quimper)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/18 "2017-05-19T20:44:27Z")
Probably his bodyguard, Keith Schiller. The current theorycrafting (all unsourced, for what it’s worth) is that [he copied Comey’s computer on May 9th and handed it over to the Russians](https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/17/comeys-fbi-computer-illegally-accessed-data-given-to-russian-diplomats/). [https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/computer-comey-russia/2905/](https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/computer-comey-russia/2905/) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/19 "2017-05-19T20:48:59Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > An unnamed current White House official described as being “close” to the president is being viewed as a significant person of interest, according to the Washington Post. > > … I hope Trump is pleased with the shitty way he treated the Washington Post during the campaign, that couldn’t possibly come back to bite him. The nimrod. Those guys have been relentless. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025/20 "2017-05-19T20:49:41Z")
> [@quimper](#): > > Probably his bodyguard, Keith Schiller. > > The current theorycrafting (all unsourced, for what it’s worth) is that [he copied Comey’s computer on May 9th and handed it over to the Russians](https://patribotics.blog/2017/05/17/comeys-fbi-computer-illegally-accessed-data-given-to-russian-diplomats/). > > [https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/computer-comey-russia/2905/](https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/computer-comey-russia/2905/) > [@](#): > > A piece of removable media containing all the data in question has been recovered from hostile actors, sources say, and is now in the possession of the Justice Department. Breaking into the FBI directors office and stealing his computer files… the comparisons to Watergate are just amazing. But… These allegations are just too good to be true. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-probe-reaches-white-house/787025.md?page=2)