Bolling’s conspiracy theory ignores the US intelligence community’s consensus conclusion — one shared by Trump’s hand-picked CIA director — that Russia interfered in the election on behalf of Trump. It ignores the fact prior to joining the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort — Trump’s campaign chairman at the time of the 2016 meeting, which he attended along with Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner — secretly worked on behalf of Putin and reportedly received millions of dollars of illegal payments from Ukraine’s former pro-Russia ruling party. It ignores reports that Kushner wanted to set up a highly unusual secret backchannel with the Kremlin in the weeks following the election.
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Fox News host rewrites history, wildly speculates that Clinton wanted to collude with Russia
