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james clapper also said there was no russia collussion. who do you believe?WASHINGTON â American democracy is âunder assaultâ on separate fronts from President Donald Trump and Russia, the former U.S. intelligence chief warned Sunday, expressing dismay over the abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey amid a probe into Moscowâs meddling in U.S. elections and possible ties with the Trump campaign.
As Trump works to fast-track Comeyâs successor, lawmakers from both parties urged him to steer clear of any politicians for the job and say he must âclean up the mess that he mostly created.â
âI think, in many ways, our institutions are under assault, both externally â and thatâs the big news here, is the Russian interference in our election system,â said James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence. âI think as well our institutions are under assault internally.â
When he was asked, âInternally, from the president?â Clapper said, âExactly.â
Clapper spoke following Trumpâs sudden firing of Comey last week, which drew sharp criticism because it came amid the FBIâs investigation into Russiaâs interference in the 2016 presidential election. Clapper said Americaâs founding fathers had created three co-equal branches of government with checks and balances, but with Trump as president, that was now âeroding.â
Lawmakers from both parties reprimanded Trumpâs actions, which included shifting explanations from the White House for Comeyâs dismissal and an ominous tweet by Trump that warned Comey against leaks to the press because he may have âtapesâ of their conversations. The lawmakers called for a new FBI director without any political background and said Trump would need to hand over to Congress any taped conversations with Comey, if they exist.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the Judiciary Committee, said selecting an FBI agent to lead the agency would allow the nation to âreset.â He dismissed as less desirable at least two of the 14 candidates under consideration by Trump, former Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan and Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, explaining that âthese are not normal circumstances.â
James Clapper: U.S. government âunder assaultâ by Trump after Comey firing â The Denver Post
And the pounding goes on--this from James Clapper who Trump tweeted out last week--claiming he stated there was no evidence against him--when Clapper stated "he knew of no evidence" and then clarified the next day that he would not have been privy to any information regarding the Russian investigtion, and in fact didn't know that there was an ongoing investigation into Trump & his surrogates that started last July.
The FBI Has Been Investigating Trumpâs Russia Ties Since July
Well if you didn't have reading comprehension problems along with an attention span of a gnat you would have seen that Clapper did NOT say that. He stated he hasn't "seen" any evidence of collusion, not that it didn't exist.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Friday he doesnât know whether evidence exists of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the presidential election, contradicting President Trumpâs tweeted claim that Clapper âand virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch huntâ said there is no collusion. Earlier Friday, Trump tweeted, âWhen James Clapper himself, and virtually everybody else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?â
âI donât know if there was collusion or not,â Clapper said in an interview on MSNBC. âI donât know if thereâs evidence of collusion or not, nor should I have known.
Clapper rebuts Trump: âI donât know if there was collusion or notâ
The CIA was too busy spying on Conservatives to pay attention to the Russians
