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Trump Says ‘Sneaky’ Feinstein Testimony Release May Have Been Illegal
President Donald Trump said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein’s decision to release a transcript of testimony on the controversial dossier about the president’s connections to Russia was "underhanded and possibly illegal."
President Donald Trump said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein’s decision to release a transcript of testimony on the controversial dossier about the president’s connections to Russia was "underhanded and possibly illegal."
"The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace. Must have tough Primary!" Trump said Wednesday on Twitter.
The comments came after Feinstein released the full transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s closed-door interview with Glenn Simpson, a former journalist who co-founded Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the dossier. Republicans and Democrats have tangled in recent weeks over the origins of the dossier, which was funded in part by Trump’s political opponents, and how the FBI and other agencies may have used it in their investigations.
Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said in an October interview with CBS that it remained an "open question" whether there was any collusion, and that "the proof will likely come with Mr. Mueller’s investigation." Feinstein is running for re-election this year in California.
The 312-page transcript details an Aug. 22 interview with Simpson who told the Senate panel that the author of the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele, decided to approach the FBI in July 2016 to brief the bureau on his findings about Trump. He said that when Steele met with an FBI official in September, the official told Steele the bureau “had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source.”
A spokesperson for Feinstein didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a subsequent Tweet, Trump said "The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!"
— With assistance by Billy House