Senate Intelligence Committee agrees with intelligence community: Russia was trying to help Trump

Published May 16, 2018 5:25pm ET



Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday appeared to concur with the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and did so to help then-candidate Donald Trump.

“Committee staff have spent 14 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft, and analytic work, and we see no reason to dispute the conclusions,” said Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C. “There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections.”

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