They don’t have anything! (Russian collusion)
“In an interview with CBS News, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the committee, said the panel is “close to pushing out the door” a report detailing the Obama administration’s response to Russian interference in the e******n...
“If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia,” Burr said...
“That quote about not having “anything that would suggest there was collusion”– which is what most other news outlets seized upon — was in the 84th paragraph...
“Usually, burying that kind of information in the eighth or ninth paragraph draws attention to itself. The fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman doesn’t believe there’s any evidence of collusion appeared so far down in the story that it’s within putting distance of 100 paragraphs makes this one a special kind of insanity...”
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/chair-intel-committee-beats-mueller-punch-confirms-dont-anything-trump-collusion/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribuneWhat’s really sad is that we probably won’t get to see many, if any, of the looks on faces on all these liberals who are so counting on Russian collusion being their antidote to Trump. It would be as much fun as watching when their hopes for HRC were crushed by the e******n!
We’ll soon see, or not?...
“For now, Burr appears to have arrived at his answer. "If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don't have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia," he said.
“The finality of Burr's assertion was jarring — but he had said a version of it before. He told Fox News in September that the committee had found no "hard evidence" of collusion, though new information could still come to light.
“He now doubled down, adding it was "accurate with everything we've accumulated since then."
“It was the first time the chairman sounded like he was not speaking for the entirety of his committee, given the disconnect between his view of a set of facts and that of the vice chairman. (Warner declined to be interviewed for this article.)
“In January, Warner said the revelation that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a business associate of Manafort's known to have ties to Russian intelligence, was the "closest we've seen" to collusion.
“Warner tweeted, "My question is, what did the President know about Mr. Manafort's collusion with Russian intelligence, and when did he know it?"
“Burr did not use the word then and would not now. Manafort, he said, "shared polling data with a former partner of an effort to do campaign services in the Ukraine." It was a "stretch," Burr said, to call that collusion.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-burr-on-senate-intelligence-committees-russia-investigation-2-years-on/All the l*****ts ever really had was a “stretch.”