More republicans diss Trump:
Counter to President Donald Trump’s claims, a number of Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee say he has not been vindicated in the Russia investigation by a controversial intelligence memo they published Friday.
“I actually don’t think it has any impact on the Russia probe,” said South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of the memo on CBS’S Face the Nation Sunday.
Last Friday the committee released a memo crafted by Gowdy and staff from chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, which suggests the FBI improperly spied on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, who authorities suspected of being a foreign agent.
Gowdy, however, said Sunday the memo he helped author hardly vindicated the president in Mueller’s probe and the other strands of the investigation.
“There is a Russia investigation without a dossier. So to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower,” Gowdy said, referring to a June 2016 meeting Donald Trump Jr. set up after being promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
“The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain,” Gowdy continued, noting allegations that Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser, met with a Kremlin-linked professor who told him Russia had thousands of damaging emails on Clinton.
“It also doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice,” Gowdy said, pointing out that Trump is being investigated for whether he tried to stymie the FBI’s investigation by firing former FBI Director James Comey. “So there's going to be a Russia probe, even without a dossier,” Gowdy said.
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Counter to President Donald Trump’s claims, a number of Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee say he has not been vindicated in the Russia investigation by a controversial intelligence memo they published Friday.
“I actually don’t think it has any impact on the Russia probe,” said South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of the memo on CBS’S Face the Nation Sunday.
Last Friday the committee released a memo crafted by Gowdy and staff from chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, which suggests the FBI improperly spied on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, who authorities suspected of being a foreign agent.
Gowdy, however, said Sunday the memo he helped author hardly vindicated the president in Mueller’s probe and the other strands of the investigation.
“There is a Russia investigation without a dossier. So to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower,” Gowdy said, referring to a June 2016 meeting Donald Trump Jr. set up after being promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
“The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain,” Gowdy continued, noting allegations that Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser, met with a Kremlin-linked professor who told him Russia had thousands of damaging emails on Clinton.
“It also doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice,” Gowdy said, pointing out that Trump is being investigated for whether he tried to stymie the FBI’s investigation by firing former FBI Director James Comey. “So there's going to be a Russia probe, even without a dossier,” Gowdy said.
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