Republicans incriminate Trump, decimate his ‘Russia hoax’ narrative
...thanks to the
Republican-led Senate, we know that his characterization of the Trump campaign’s links to Russia was spot-on.
In a bombshell
report, the GOP-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that Trump campaign contacts with Russian spies amounted to “
a grave counterintelligence threat.”
But that stunning conclusion is merely the tip of an iceberg of
lies and treacherous behavior by Trump and his top advisers detailed by the report.
Over the course of nearly 1,000 pages,
the Senate report pulverizes President Trump’s endless claims that the “Russia collusion hoax is the greatest political scandal in the history of this country.”
Indeed,
new evidence makes it abundantly clear: Not investigating the vast number of “alarming” Trump connections to Russian intelligence operatives would have amounted to a “dereliction of duty and responsibility” by America’s law enforcement agencies.
More importantly, the
Senate report shows that the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign and special counsel Robert Mueller did not go nearly far enough. More on that shortly.
First, the collusion. “On numerous occasions,” former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort passed “sensitive Campaign polling data and the Campaign’s strategy” to a man who – according to the Republican-led committee – was a Russian intelligence officer....
