Trump denied the media reports of FBI 2017 investigation if he acted as a Russian agent while Kremlin said the idea that Donald Trump could have worked for Russia is stupid
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VietPress USA (Jan. 16, 2019): On Jan. 13, 2019, Jan. 13, 2019, a senior Democratic aide on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said the Washington Post's new reporting that Trump seized notes from the interpreter at his meeting with Putin in Hamburg, "has changed the calculus."
"This raises a new host of questions," the aide told ABC News. "We're looking into the legal implications of that, and we'll discuss our options. Our lawyers are sitting down with intel committee lawyers to hash it out."
“Every time Trump meets with Putin, the country is told nothing," House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel said in a statement.
On the same day, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va, the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning that whether Trump ever worked on behalf of Moscow is “the defining question” of both the committee’s investigation and the probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The Intelligence Committee’s initial findings released last summer show that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an “extensive and sophisticated” influence campaign to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton and undermine the American public’s belief in the democratic process.
“You had Trump say only nice things about Putin. He never spoke ill about Russia,” Warner told Tapper. “Republican campaign doctrines softened on Russia and decreased their willingness to defend Ukraine.”
A day earlier, Trump had insisted he "never worked for Russia" following two bombshell reports. "It's a disgrace that you even ask that question," he told reporters on the White House's South Lawn. "It's all a big fat hoax."
Today on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, insisted he "never said there was no collusion" between Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign and Russia -- only that Trump himself was not involved. Giuliani said: "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign," and he added: "I said the President of the United States"
"There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here, conspiring with the Russians to hack the DNC." Rudy Giuliani said.
And also today, the Kremlin said on Wednesday the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump could have worked for Russia was stupid. Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide when asked to address whether Trump had or was working with Russia, he said: "This is stupid, what is there to comment?"
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Kremlin: The idea that Donald Trump could have worked for Russia is stupid
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump could have worked for Russia was stupid.
"This is stupid, what is there to comment?" said Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov when asked to address whether Trump had or was working with Russia.
Trump on Monday denied media reports at the weekend that the FBI in 2017 investigated whether he acted against U.S. interests, and that he had concealed details about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters he never worked for Russia.
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Tom Balmforth, Editing by William Maclean)
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