House Intelligence Committee Finds No Evidence of Trump Campaign Collusion

The House Intelligence Committee on Friday detailed in a report that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign; however, the heavily redacted report did find evidence of Russian election interference.

The report detailed that there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russian Officials, but it did say that there was poor judgment and ill-considered actions.

“While the committee found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government, the investigation did find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns,” the report concluded.
“For example, the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between members of the Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer who falsely purported to have damaging information on the Clinton campaign demonstrated poor judgment,” the report continues.

“The committee also found the Trump campaign’s periodic praise for and communications with WikiLeaks — a hostile foreign organization — to be highly objectionable and inconsistent with U.S. national security interests. The committee also found that the Clinton campaign and the DNC, using a series of cutouts and intermediaries to obscure their roles, paid for opposition research on Trump obtained from Russian sources, including a litany of claims by high-ranking current and former Russian government officials. Some of this opposition research was used to produce sixteen memos, which comprise what has become known as the Steele dossier.”

Trump responded to the release of the report by saying that the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence that the Trump Campaign colluded with Russia and stated that the Democrat-led investigation is a ‘total witch hunt’ and that it must end now.

The Report comes a month after a summary of the findings was produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.