Senate Intelligence Committee Agrees That Putin Meddled to Help Trump
- Bipartisan report vouches for intelligence findings as ‘sound’
- Committee counters House GOP contention of anti-Trump bias
Vladimir Putin speaks during a rally near the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win.
“The committee concurs with intelligence and open-source assessments that this influence campaign was approved by President Putin,” the panel said Tuesday that endorsed as “sound” the intelligence findings issued in January 2017. The committee said there was a body of intelligence “to support the assessment that Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for Trump.”