I'm tempted to stop reading right there, because it's all I need to say that
1.) This is exactly what Nunes said,
2.) Steele is not American, therefore this is foreign influence,
3.) Hillary paid for it, so there's your collusion, and
4.) Any intelligence officer who denied this to Congress under oath then lied under oath.
I don't know what else there is to say about any of it.
bttt!
Reuters joins NYT & AP re “without evidence”, but Reuters - with a whole pile of their writers/editors - uses the phrases:
“offers no evidence” and “offered no evidence”
22 Jul: Reuters: Trump says his campaign was spied upon illegally, offers no evidence
Reporting by David Stamp in London; Additional reporting by Pete Schroeder and Amanda Becker in Washington, and Roberta Rampton in Bedminster, N.J.; Editing by David Goodman, Jason Neely and Daniel Wallis
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that documents released by the FBI relating to a former advisers ties to Russia showed that his campaign for the 2016 presidential election had been illegally spied upon by U.S. law enforcement, but offered no evidence to support his assertion...
A White House spokeswoman referred questions on why Trump believed the documents proved the FBI and DOJ demonstrated illegal conduct or were misleading courts to Trumps personal counsel. His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, did not respond to a request for comment.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to requests to comment on Trumps allegation. The FBI declined to comment. ..
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-page-doc/trump-says-carter-page-documents-show-doj-and-fbi-misled-courts-idUSKBN1KC0EP
the original:
Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents
New York Times · 12 hours ago