Editorial: Caught red-handed: A detailed report confirms Russia's collusion and Trump's lies
A major reason Donald Trump doesn’t deserve reelection: The suspected original sin of this presidency — cheating to win with Russian collusion — has mostly proven true.
So says the near-1,000-page fifth and final bipartisan report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released Tuesday detailing a wide web of contacts between Russian intelligence operatives and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Key findings: Vladimir Putin personally directed the weaponizing of hacked Democratic campaign emails. The Trump campaign received assistance from various Russian pass-throughs, most significantly Roger Stone via his Julian Assange WikiLeaks back channel.
Former campaign chair Paul Manafort is deemed a “grave counterintelligence threat” due to repeated contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, exposed as a Russian intelligence officer. The report also suggests Kilimnik early on tried blaming any campaign interference on Ukraine, a revelation that underscores the case for impeachment and removal made earlier this year.
