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Jan 12
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FBI Investigating Unconfirmed Claims That Trump Was Personally Compromised by the Russians |
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Explosive but unsubstantiated allegations suggesting Donald Trump was compromised by Russian agents and in league with Russian hackers appeared in a dossier given to the FBI in August by Democratic political operatives who later gave it to news organizations, including ABC News.
The document has circulated in the intelligence community and was reportedly raised last week during classified intelligence briefings to President Obama and President-elect Trump.
Trump and his aides expressed outrage yesterday that anyone would take the uncorroborated reports seriously.
“FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!” Trump wrote on Twitter, in an apparent reference to the news reports.
On ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” Trump aide Kellyanne Conway slammed the allegations, saying, “Just to smear the president-elect of the United States, we now have intelligence officials divulging information that they are sworn not to divulge.”
“I don’t even think this is fake news, I think this is just... |
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| Source:http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-investigating-unconfirmed-claims-trump-compromised-election/story?id=44693343 |
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