Trump tweets 'Russian Collusion Hoax is dead' as Bannon is interviewed for Russia probe

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY MAX GREENWOOD - 01/16/18 09:54 AM EST

President Trump declared Tuesday that allegations that his campaign conspired with the Russia to influence the 2016 election were "dead" as his former chief strategist was set to testify before a House panel on the matter.

Link to tweet

Trump has repeatedly denied the notion that his campaign coordinated with the Russians to interfere in and influence the 2016 race, and has accused Democrats of improper collusion.

His latest comments came as former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon was set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the election.

Bannon, who was once one of Trump's closest advisers, fell out of the president's graces this month, after excerpts of a tell-all book about the Trump White House were leaked, in which Bannon is quoted as speaking critically of Trump and his family.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/369106-trump-tweets-russian-collusion-hoax-is-dead-as-bannon-is-interviewed

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JANUARY 16, 2018 / 6:03 AM / UPDATED 7 MINUTES AGO

Ex-Trump chief strategist Bannon to meet with House panel on Russia

Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday with a U.S. House of Representatives committee that is probing whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

The interview with the House Intelligence Committee comes after Bannon’s public falling out with the president over comments Bannon made to author Michael Wolff for his new book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

In the book, Bannon is quoted as describing a June 2016 meeting between Trump associates, including the president’s son Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and a Russian lawyer, as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”

The meeting came after Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that the Russian government had dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, to which he replied: “I love it.”

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-congress/ex-trump-chief-strategist-bannon-to-meet-with-house-panel-on-russia-idUSKBN1F5168

[dlk]

1. Bannon May Now Need a Bodyguard

[Iliyah]

2. LOL

asshole. Sing Bannon sing.

[Girard442]

3. I do believe in exoneration. I do believe in exoneration. I do believe in exoneration.

Worked for Tinkerbelle, Donnie, but your chances aren't looking so good.

[L. Coyote]

4. He also just admitted he is an abysmal failure: 90% of Trump 2017 news coverage was negative

Link to tweet

How many US dollars does it take today to buy the same things a year ago?

[SHRED]

5. Deluded shithole

[Auggie]

6. A mission by Republicans to find out what Bannon could possibly admit to if grilled by Mueller ...

I'd bet whatever he spills makes it back to the White House and Trump's lawyers.

IMHO

[Liberalagogo]

7. Once a shithole

Always a shithole.

[jimmil]

8. I guaran-damn-tee you

Bannon has been gotten to and has been paid off. He will only sing the praises of Trump and say it was all Hillary that was in bed with Russia. Trump's stooges on the Intel Committee will be phoning the WH almost as a running commentary. Nothing will come out of this and everybody here knows it even if you don't want to admit it. Political theater is all we have here.

[Paladin]

9. In your dreams, president shithole. (nt)

[Archae]

10. Trump has always lived in his own fantasyland.

"Using Dad's money to start my empire was pulling myself up by my own bootstraps!"

"Keeping them n***** out of my properties makes me not racist!"

"I owe contractors money? I'll pay them what I want to pay!"

"I'm the world's greatest businessman, who went bankrupt over and over!"

"All the votes for Hillary were illegal votes, I was elected in a landslide!"

"My inauguration crowd was the biggest ever!"

"Everything Obama did was evil! That's why even if it's working, I try to repeal it!"

"Putin can do nothing wrong!"

[SWBTATTReg]

11. right...keep on talking tRUMP, Mueller's watching / listening

[truthisfreedom]

12. Your hoax is dead, 45. Youre right about that.

Your hoax presidency was DOA.