ADRatcliffe’s effort to suggest that the Russia probe that ensued relied upon Trump’s allies, such as Fox News, connecting the dots he was dropping. ADRatcliffe admits that the centerpiece is Russia’s assessment of what the Clinton campaign was doing. That this was the CIA telling the FBI in September 2016 that it had learned that Russia saw the Clinton focus as a diversion effort? The only unredacted bullet point is next to POTUS and reads, “any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign and Russia.”It’s impossible to tell what that means without the context of the redacted elements. There’s no reason to assume Clinton’s focus on Trump and Russia drove the government’s interest in possible links.

Source: Washington Post October 07, 2020 22:33 UTC