"From the
beginning, I repeatedly said the charge that the Trump campaign colluded with
the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential
election was a lie. The president’s description of it as a 'witch hunt' was
accurate.
I regularly
acknowledged that I was putting my credibility on the line by stating that it
was all a hoax. But how did I know that? After all, I wasn’t privy to any
confidential intelligence.
One answer
is I used common sense. The Trump-Russia collusion charge and the
Donald-Trump-is-an-agent-of-the-Kremlin charge struck me — and tens of millions
of other Americans — as absurd. Vladimir Putin’s influence on the 2016 election
was negligible, and as president, Trump has been harder on Russia — in
supporting Ukraine’s anti-Russian government, in fighting Syria’s pro-Russian
government and in confronting Iran’s pro-Russian regime — than Barack Obama
was."
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