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Trump slams 'bogus' Russian dossier and says the FBI is 'tainted' - ABC News

posted onDecember 27, 2017
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Article snippet: President Christmas break, but now that the holiday is over, he's back at it, going after his critics and the integrity of the Russia investigation. This morning, Trump tweeted claims made by Fox News commentators about the infamous dossier that contained potentially damaging allegations about Trump's campaign and the candidate himself. It is unclear what role — if any — the dossier may have played in the Democratic National Committee. The dossier is uncorroborated but not disproved. "WOW, @foxandfriends "Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!" he wrote. The comments that Trump referenced in the tweet were made by both a Fox News reporter who was hosting the morning show, Todd Piro, and former congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz. During this morning's show, Piro asked "Why would you brief members of the FBI before verifying the existence of collusion and really taint the entire FBI in the process?" Chaffetz then responded at length, adding at one point that "the dossier, we have long known, is bogus." Chaffetz also said that the dossier was funded with "nefarious ties," going on to say "perhaps even with the Clinton campaign." ABC News reported last August that Fusion GPS was paid by a still-unknown R... Link to the full article to read more

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