The Senate Intelligence Committee Chair and Ranking Member sent a message to Donald Trump by refusing to rule out Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) responded when asked if he ruled out Trump/Russia collusion, “We would be crazy to try to draw conclusions from where we are in the investigation. I think Mark and I have committed to let this process go through before we form any opinions, and I would hope that’s what you would like us to do. As much as we’d like to share minute by minute, even the snapshots we get as a team going through it are not always accurate when we find the next piece of intelligence. So, let us get a little deeper into it before you ask us to write the conclusions. That’s clearly something that we intend to do down the road.”
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The Trump White House’s level of worry about the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation was doubled by this press conference. What the White House witnessed was committee chair (Burr) and ranking member (Sen. Mark Warner) standing side by side and ruling out the Trump claim that there is zero evidence of collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Contrast the behavior of the Senate committee with its House counterpart where Chairman Devin Nunes has already said that there is no evidence of Trump collusion with Russia. Nunes has gotten information from the White House and refuses to share information with his own committee. The Senate investigation looks like it will be a problem for Trump, and the Senators’ promise to dig deep in their investigation will only mean bad things for this president.
Trump’s Russia problem is about to get a lot worse.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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