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10. Butowsky and Zimmerman were not in this alone. Rather, in the weeks and months leading up to the publication of Zimmerman's May 16, 2017 article, Butowsky kept in regular contact with Trump Administration officials including Mr. Spicer, Mr. Bannon and Case 1:17-cv-05807 Document 1 Filed 08/01/17 Page 4 of 33 Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, Sarah Flores regarding his efforts relating to Seth Rich. As noted above, Butowsky informed Mr. Wheeler two days before Zimmerman's article came out that President Trump had read it and wanted it published "immediately." 12. Prior to that, Butowsky and Mr. Wheeler met with Mr. Spicer and provided him with a copy of Mr. Wheeler's investigative notes Mr. Spicer asked to be kept abreast of developments and, upon information and belief, Butowsky did keep Mr. Spicer abreast of developments

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EB ED Sun, May 14, 9:10 PM Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It's now all up to you. But don't feel the pressure
because much, much of the information did not come from me." In response, Zimmerman admitted: "Umm, well not not notNot the part ahout the emails.Not the part about I mean about the connection to WikiLeaks, but the rest of the quotes in the story did. A lot of the 23 Case 1:17-cv-05807 Document 1 Filed 08/01/17 Page 24 of 33 quotes in the story did." Later in the same conversation, Butowsky also conceded that the quotes were not made by Mr. Wheeler: "Olne day you're going to win an award forhaving said those things you didn't say" Indeed, in another conversation, Mr. Butowsky read, from the article, to
On April 20, a month before the story ran, Butowsky and Wheeler - the investor and the investigator - met at the White House with then Press Secretary Sean Spicer to brief him on what they were uncovering. The first page of the lawsuit quotes a voicemail and text from Butowsky boasting that President Trump himself had reviewed drafts of the Fox News story just before it went to air and was published. Spicer now tells NPR that he took the meeting as a favor to Butowsky, a reliable Republican voice. Spicer says he was unaware of any contact involving the president. Butowsky now tells NPR he was kidding about Trump's involvement. "Rod Wheeler unfortunately was used as a pawn by Ed Butowsky, Fox News and the Trump administration to try and steer away the attention that was being given about the Russian hacking of the DNC e-mails," said Douglas Wigdor, Wheeler's lawver.
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