U.S Senate didn’t find any Direct Evidence to link Trump with Russia

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The Intelligence Committee of the U.S Senate is near the end of its 2-years investigation into interfering in the 2016 election. Both Republicans and Democrats in the committee didn’t find any direct evidence to link the Trump campaign in a conspiracy with Russia. However, the investigators are split into party lines regarding how much can be gleaned from the patterns of evidence. They gathered over the past two years through over 200 interviews.

The evidence includes contacts made between Donald Trump associates and Russians before, during, and after the Russian-link Democratic emails. U.S Senator Richard Burr (the Republican chairman of the committee) informed CBS News. He said, “If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia”. He added, “We know we’re getting to the bottom of the barrel because they’re not new questions that we’re searching for answers to”.

A ranking member Mark Warner has shown his disagreement with the characterization but denied on Tuesday to draw conclusions from the evidence. Warner said, “I’m not going to get into any conclusions I have. There’s never been a campaign in American history … that people affiliated with the campaign had as many ties with Russia as the Trump campaign did”.

Democrats speaking NBC News said that they also dispute the way that Burr spoke regarding the committee’s findings. One informed the news network, “We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, ‘Hey Vlad, we’re going to collude’”. The U.S Senate committee probe is just one of several investigations launched since 2016 to find into Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 campaign. Democrats recently reopened an investigation in the House and the special counsel probe is ongoing.