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CNN analyst accuses Trump admin of aiding Russia by releasing ‘cherry-picked' intel on Trump-Russia collusion investigation
CNN National Security Analyst Beth Sanner accused the Trump administration of aiding Russia after the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified a report prepared by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence back in 2020 on Wednesday. Sanner slammed the administration on Wednesday for releasing the report, which she claimed included 'cherry-picked examples' that ran contrary to the intelligence community's assessment at the time that Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 election in hopes of helping President Donald Trump win. Advertisement 'What I don't appreciate is that these are cherry-picked examples that they are quibbling, angels dancing on the head of a pin when we have volumes of reporting,' she asserted. 'You're always going to find one report that's different, OK, whatever.' The report revealed that the intelligence community did not have any direct information that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help elect Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, but, at the 'unusual' direction of then-President Barack Obama, published 'potentially biased' or 'implausible' intelligence suggesting otherwise. 3 CNN National Security Analyst Beth Sanner says the Trump administration aided Russia after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a previous report. MediaPunch / BACKGRID Advertisement The report states that then-CIA Director John Brennan 'ordered the post-election publication of 15 reports containing previously collected but unpublished intelligence, three of which were substandard—containing information that was unclear, of uncertain origin, potentially biased, or implausible—and those became foundational sources for the ICA judgements that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton.' The CNN analyst disputed these findings, arguing that the 'big message' for Americans is that 'Russia tried to interfere in our election processes with the point of undermining our confidence in our democracy and, by bringing this up again, the Trump administration is doing the work of our adversary Russia.' 3 Sanner claimed the report had 'cherry-picked examples' that ran contrary to the initial assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help secure President Donald Trump's win. Fox News 3 The current report indicates that Putin didn't have direct access to help elect Trump in 2016. AFP via Getty Images Advertisement Sanner's claims stand in stark contrast to Gabbard's statements made at a White House press briefing Wednesday, alleging the Obama administration promoted a 'contrived narrative' that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. 'There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false,' Gabbard said. 'They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn't.' Fox News' Brooke Singman and Diana Stacey contributed to this report.
The Hill
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Schumer condemns DOJ meeting with Maxwell: ‘Stinks of high corruption'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday condemned the Justice Department meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. 'Sending Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to interview Ghislaine Maxwell while she's in prison, a woman who's been convicted of abusing people, to offer some kind of corrupt deal so that she can exonerate Donald Trump just stinks of high corruption,' Schumer said in a video posted to the social platform X on Thursday. Blanche met with Maxwell on Thursday in Tallahassee. The Trump administration has been facing heat in the last few weeks over its handling of information related to Epstein from both Democrats and Republicans, with the saga throwing Congress into chaos. On Wednesday, the House broke for its weeks-long August recess, shutting down a day earlier than planned as the chamber was stuck in a logjam over the Epstein controversy. 'It's the first day of House Republicans fleeing town for their Epstein Recess. They high-tailed it out of here hoping to hide the story. But the story is growing louder by the hour with Trump and the administration's lies,' Schumer said in another Thursday post on X. The Hill has reached out to the White House and the House Republican Conference for comment.
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Gingrich: Trump should appoint someone ‘to go through every single angle' of Epstein controversy
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said President Trump should task someone with going over 'every single angle' of controversy around convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 'I think in the end, the president will have to appoint somebody to go through every single angle,' Gingrich, a Trump ally, said during his Wednesday appearance on 'Cats & Cosby' radio show on WABC 770 AM. The former Speaker said the administration should make an effort to talk to longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted on sex trafficking charges and is serving a 20-year sentence. 'And frankly, I think they're going to have to get Ghislaine Maxwell to talk, and if that means cutting some kind of a deal, whatever it takes, they're going to have to find out from her, because she was there for over 20 years,' the former House speaker told hosts John Catsimatidis & Rita Cosby. 'She knows, and she has information.' Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell in prison in Tallahassee on Thursday. On Wednesday evening, Maxwell's brother Ian Maxwell said in an email to The New York Post: 'She will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome.' Trump's MAGA base has pushed for more transparency regarding the Epstein files, particularly after a joint Justice Department and FBI memo said the late financier did not have a 'client list' and that he died by suicide in 2019 in prison while awaiting trial. Gingrich said he finds it 'hard to believe' that Epstein committed suicide The administration is looking to move on from the Epstein controversy, as some House Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for the release of all documents related to the Epstein case. Last week, the White House said that Trump 'would not recommend a special prosecutor' to review the handling and documents related to Epstein's case.
