Trump targets former attorney-general in tweets about Russia collusion
Washington — US President Donald Trump has insisted there is no evidence he colluded with Russia after a Senate hearing that highlighted warnings that his former national security advisor was vulnerable to Russian blackmail. With the issue of the president’s ties to Moscow back in the spotlight, Trump took to Twitter to dismiss the Senate testimony on Monday by former acting attorney-general Sally Yates about his former national security advisor Michael Flynn as "old news". Instead, Trump chose to play up former director of national intelligence James Clapper’s acknowledgement during the same hearing that he was not aware of any evidence of collusion between the president and Russia, which American intelligence has concluded tried to sway the US election in Trump’s favour. "Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump," Trump said on twitter. Clapper, however, had added that he had not be...
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