Donald Trumps Mostly False claim that James Clapper said no collusion found in Russia probe

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Source: PolitiFact

Donald Trump’s Mostly False claim that James Clapper said no collusion found in Russia probe

By John Kruzel on Friday, May 12th, 2017 at 4:50 p.m.

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Our ruling

Trump said, "When James Clapper himself, and virtually everyone else with knowledge of the witch hunt, says there is no collusion, when does it end?"

Some of the public statements by those with knowledge of the FBI investigation do not support Trump’s claim that "virtually everyone" privy to the probe says there’s no evidence of collusion. While Comey has not described specific evidence, he has confirmed that sufficient credible information exists for the FBI to consider the Russia probe a high enough priority to warrant an investigation.

As for Clapper’s statement, it’s apparent Trump has twisted the former DNI’s words to make it appear as if he’s ruled out the possibility that evidence exists showing the Trump campaign colluded with Russian interlopers during the 2016 election. But Clapper’s statement was that he had no knowledge of collusion -- not that collusion didn’t occur. Clapper has since stated that his capacity as DNI would not necessarily give him the kind of access to the FBI investigation that one would need in order to determine whether or not evidence of collusion exists.

We rate Trump’s statement Mostly False.

Read more: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/12/donald-trump/trumps-mostly-false-claim-clapper-said-no-collusio/

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1. he's been spreading that lie all over the place

I don't quite understand why politifact says "mostly" false. Clapper has NEVER stated there was no collusion.

Pity more people did not pay attention to politifact regarding Trump during the campaign. They don't assign a letter grade to their findings, which may be a good thing as they you can't get a grade lower than an F-.