USA : No Evidence Of Collusion Between Donald Trump And Russia: US Lawmaker
WASHINGTON: A panel of Congress has so far found "no evidence" that US President Donald Trump's campaign in collusion with Russia during the 2016 elections, his chairman said on Sunday, before the testimony of the Head of the FBI in possible links Russian President of the United States.
On the basis of "everything I have until this morning - it is evidence of collusion," team Trump and Moscow, Representative Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News.
Mr. Nunes made his comments a day before the Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey is addressing lawmakers on the panel, amid speculation that Trump's associates and associates - and perhaps even the same businessman Of GIR - politics - may have uncomfortably maintained close ties with Moscow.
Monday's hearing was also scheduled to deal with a second explosive theme: baseless accusations of Mr. Trumpet interceptions by Barack Obama - the charges that have exploded into waters of Washington politics for two weeks.
Trump March 4 Twitter that Obama has "exploited" his phone - a charge that has consumed political debate in the US capital.
The US intelligence community has publicly accused Russia of the Democratic National Committee pirate last year, and suggested that cyber attacks are intended to direct the election as a Trump victory.
Moscow has denied its involvement in the cut, and Mr. Trump has denounced the scandal for alleged connections Russia as a "total witch hunt."
A city obsessed with an unsubstantiated claim
But the question of whether the Trump Tower was hampered - an accusation made by the first president of Twitter, however, reached the top of Washington's policy agenda, becoming a kind of national obsession, although a growing number Of lawmakers and senior officials the United States says there is no evidence for this claim.
The question multiplies interceptions last month when national security adviser for Mr. Trump Michael Flynn was forced to resign after it was revealed that senior officials had misled him about his contacts with Russia.
In the same period, the New York Times reported that US intelligence agents had intercepted calls showing that members of the Trump campaign had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the previous year's November 8 choice.
Mr Nunes said the intelligence committee's investigation is focused in part on the fact that Flynn had not made private contacts with the Russians on the issue of international sanctions against Moscow - a revelation that led to his forced resignation Trump national security adviser.
Adding to the intrigue, Attorney General Trump Jeff Sessions has had to refrain from any request related to Russia after it was learned that he had met twice with the Russian ambassador in the months before Mr. Trump took office , And had not managed to disclose this during his confirmation hearing.
Trump's credibility gets hit
On the domestic front, the controversy getting headlines over alleged phone interception drew attention from trying Trump to pass on other key elements of his program, including repealing planned health care law, Obama's tax reform and his controversial ban on travel.
Critics say it has already lowered the tone of the political debate in Washington and eroded the president's credibility at home and abroad.
Some of the consequences have been international concern: The White House was forced to withdraw a repeated charge last week by its spokesman Sean Spicer suggesting that British intelligence services helped the Obama administration in the alleged telephone intervention. This statement has tightened relations with the closest US ally.
However, as recently as Friday, Mr. Trump repeated the claim without basis, in part, during a White House press conference with Angela Merkel.
"As for the interception, I suppose, of this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Mr. Trump said the German chancellor Angela Merkel, referring to a WikiLeak report in 2015 that the United States. Had monitored calls involving Mrs. Merkel and her assistants for years.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz - defeated rival last year by Mr. Trump for the Republican presidential nomination - said the wiretapping accusations are not quite "extravagant" and MUST
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