Daily Caller: Congress has been investigating possible Trump campaign collusion with the Kremlin for nearly 10 months, but a top Senate Democrat says she has still not seen evidence to support the allegation.
“Have you seen any evidence that this dirt, these emails, were ever given to the Trump campaign?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Sunday.
“Not so far,” replied the Democrat, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Both panels are investigating various aspects of Russian interference in the presidential campaign.
Tapper was asking Feinstein about revelations this week that former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told the FBI that he was in talks with a London-based professor with Kremlin connections who claimed in April 2016 to have learned that the Russian government had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails.
It is still unclear whether Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last month to lying to the FBI, told members of the Trump campaign about the emails. The professor, Joseph Mifsud, has accused Papdopoulos of lying.
The idea that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian operatives to hack into and disseminate Democrats’ emails has been a core theory of the collusion allegation. That theory rests largely on a dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.
The dossier alleges a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russian leadership. It also alleges that Russians hacked Democrats’ emails and gave them to WikiLeaks “with the full knowledge and support of Trump and senior members of his campaign team.”
Feinstein says she has not seen evidence to back up the allegation.
“Have you seen any communications that suggested that the Trump campaign wanted them to release [emails] through a different means? Because obviously they were ultimately released by Wikileaks,” said Tapper.
“No, I have not,” Feinstein responded. WATCH
Congress has a great sense of humor, putting her on the “Intelligence” Committee.
So…George Papadopoulos talking to a London-based professor with Kremlin connections who claimed in April 2016 to have learned that “the Russian government had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails”, THAT is collusion, but Hillary, paying Fusion GPS to work with the Russian Government to manufacture a phony dossier on Trump, and leak it to the FBI, John McCain, and the press, THAT is just “opposition research”, and “Everybody does it”? No wonder DiFi is backing away. Next, she will be calling for Mueller to be fired!
More confirmation that there is no justification for the Special Counsel’s existence.
Feinstein should say that, but won’t.
The Trump Campaign couldn’t even collude with the Republican Party, much less the Russian Intelligence Services and Macedonian Content Farmers. The Clinton Campaign colluded with the Main Stream Democrat Media from start to finish, and still lost the election. It was rigged from the start. It just didn’t end according to the best mislaid plans of the real colluders. Senator Dianne Feinstein has been almost the sole voice of reality coming from the Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee. If there was any evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians, she wouldn’t have been saying this for months.
If she wants to find Russian collusion she’s looking in the wrong party.
Has she had that hair style since birth?
If Trump can’t fire Meuller for political reasons then cut his budget becuase he hasn’t found anything after ten months. Give him one secretary and one lawyer to work with. That’s all.
And yet, we pay and pay
MJA commented on her hair style. I’ll add, what is her obsession with necklaces?
I have white-hot hatred for her because of her unconstitutional, unpatriotic, and un-American stance on gun control. However, I do appreciate that she has been a bit vocal about the total lack of any wrongdoing on the part of Trump and this silly Russian story that the Fake News Media invented.
Well she hasnt pulled an AK out of her ass lately.