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"Trump is downplaying reality here. There might not be a vast conspiracy in which Trump is letting Putin pull the strings in the White House to help the Trump Organization’s bottom line. But there is enough legitimate evidence that Russia meddled in the election to compel the FBI to investigate some of Trump’s associates’ ties to Russia, as well as bipartisan calls for a congressional inquiry.
Fueling the story is the fact that several Trump associates have specific Russia connections. Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has long ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, for example. And former national security adviser Michael Flynn — ousted for lying about the nature of his discussions with the Russian ambassador — has a relationship with Russian state media network RT.
Read our full report summarizing the slew of accusations about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
In his tweets, Trump seems to suggest that the Clintons and their associates were working on behalf of Russia’s interests. That’s hard to square with the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election in order to harm Hillary Clinton and elect Trump instead."
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweets about Hillary Clinton and Russia | PolitiFact
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