DNC collusion: Spicer claimed that the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia, but Democrats did collude with the Ukrainian government, for taking a meeting at the Ukrainian embassy.
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"If the Russians were attempting to collude with him, they were attempting to collude with someone who had no influence on the Trump campaign," said Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Mr. Trump.
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Trump has said his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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Employers can collude more easily when there are few competitors.
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"The president did not collude with the Russians," he added.
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He didn't collude with the Russians, he didn't obstruct justice.
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Today's show asks, did the Trump campaign collude with Russia?
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Whatever the Russians did, they didn&apost collude with Donald Trump.
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"The cybercriminals collude when their business model merits it," said Anderson.
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And federal officials did not all collude in facilitating the atrocities.
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But Tess is a character you root for and collude with.
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Did the Russians and Trump administration collude to affect the election.
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The Washington Post editorial board: Trump did not collude with Russia.
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"There was clearly an intent to collude," said Oregon Democratic Sen.
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"The president did not collude with the Russians," Giuliani told CNN.
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I can tell you Roger did not collude with Julian Assange.
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He has not alleged a conspiracy to collude with the Russians.
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Here are the looming questions: Was there a conspiracy to collude?
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He didn't need to, nor did he, collude with the Russians.
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He has also said his campaign did not collude with Moscow.
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"If the Russians were attempting to collude with him, they were attempting to collude with someone who had no influence on the Trump campaign," Roger Stone, a GOP strategist and longtime Trump ally, told the Times.
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I did not collude, whatever the heck that means, with the Russians.
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Trump has said the report shows he did not collude with Russia.
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Whoever she was, whatever the outcome, the intent to collude is plain.
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GIULIANI: No. If you collude for criminal purposes then it&aposs conspiracy.
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Give him a collusion chicken regenerator, he will collude for a lifetime.
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What that means is that Comey allowed the Clinton witnesses to collude.
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Why do you -- why do we think you collude with the Russians?
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Schools don't trust each other, so they collude not to pay athletes.
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Not only have they succumbed to official power, they collude with it.
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When women compete to "stay young," we collude in our own disempowerment.
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All of those factors are expected to collude to boost worker pay.
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ACT NOW, and they will collude with Russia at no extra charge.
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Here's what you need to know: • "I did not collude," Kushner says.
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"I did not collude with any foreign government," Donald Trump Jr. said.
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The timeline, he insists, proves he did not collude in the hack itself.
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He has insisted he did not collude with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
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I didn't collude with them and there was no impact on the outcome.
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Mr. Barr repeatedly said that the president's campaign did not collude with Russia.
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Forget colluding with the Russians, he couldn't even collude with his own staff.
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The dossier alleged that Cohen traveled to Prague to collude with the Kremlin.
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So if the Russians really wanted to collude, who would they go to?
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Which Democrat will Kimmel collude with next, and will we even find out?
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He has insisted he did not collude with Russia during the 85033 campaign.
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"Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election," Sanders said.
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"Vladimir Putin is too smart to collude with Donald Trump," Nunberg told CNN.
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And even if he did collude, it probably would have been by accident.
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Patel, who oversees competition authorities, said the amendments make it a criminal offence for directors or managers of a firm to collude with their competitors to fix prices, divide markets among themselves or collude in tenders or to acquiesce in collusion.
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Russia denies the allegations and Trump says his team did not collude with Moscow.
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So was the Trump team trying to collude, or are they just bumblingly incompetent?
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Irregular migration is considered a crime in Libya, though authorities often collude with smugglers.
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Where is the media outrage over the attempt to collude and conspire with Russia?
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I believe that Sessions did not collude with the Russians during the Presidential campaign.
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Mr. Trump claimed that the memo proved his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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He didn't collude with the Russians, obstruction of justice in this situation is absurd.
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The new narrative is, 'Well, he didn't collude with the Russians but he's crazy.
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Today's episode of The Daily podcast asks, did the Trump campaign collude with Russia?
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That they now collude with one another may be unpleasant, but it's hardly surprising.
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Your father is trying to discredit our media, collude with Russia and destroy the environment.
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But the question he was appointed to answer — Did the Trump campaign collude with Russia?
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Moscow has denied it and Trump has said his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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"They thought we colluded, but we couldn't even collude with our local offices," Kushner said.
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In response, I would tell him that Trump did collude with Russia, using several hashtags.
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The film is a compelling account of how special interests collude to weaken public universities.
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Trump has said his campaign did not collude with Russia and Moscow has denied meddling.
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During the press conference, he said he did not collude with Russia in the election.
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It won't matter that Manafort knows the Trump campaign did not collude with the Russians.
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Moscow has denied any interference and Trump says his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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Barr repeated his finding that President Donald Trump's election campaign did not collude with Russia.
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Stone has denied any effort to collude with Russia to swing the election to Trump.
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Notably, the Clinton controversy not only has allegations of Russian influence but efforts to collude.
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Moscow has denied any interference, and Trump says his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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They could collude without the sort of direct communication that would make such behavior illegal.
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Read more: The Mueller Report shows just how badly Trump wanted to collude with Russia.
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Gail: I've always nurtured the theory that Trump doesn't have the mental capacity to collude.
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Today's episode of the podcast The Daily asks, did the Trump campaign collude with Russia?
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He was specifically alleged to collude with Russia in its interference with the Ukrainian election.
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Your father is trying to discredit our media, collude with Russia, and destroy the environment.
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In a statement earlier Monday, Kushner said he "did not collude" with any foreign government.
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The message, if true, would bolster claims that Trump's campaign attempted to collude with Russian interests.
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The city and the state collude to use eminent domain in ways that really are unconstitutional.
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The Trump administration has said it did not collude with Russia to encourage such hacking efforts.
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Trump has repeatedly and emphatically insisted that his campaign did not collude with Russia in 2016.
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An Italian court has also suggested they collude with Libya-based smugglers, which the charities deny.
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Moscow has denied any interference, and Trump has insisted his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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The owners are all trying to push their ability to collude as far as they can.
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Perhaps in the future, machines will even collude with each other to rig prices without humans knowing.
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It actually ran a story showing how a Trump associate chose not to collude with the Russians.
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"I don't think [Trump] colluded with the Russians because he doesn't collude with his own staff," Sen.
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"Roger Stone did not conspire, collude, or do any action to subvert the electoral process," Buschel wrote.
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I&aposve been cautioning and many others have that there really isn&apost a crime to collude.
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Trump's tweet: Jared Kushner did very well yesterday in proving he did not collude with the Russians.
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And what is clear is that the president's campaign was willing to collude with Russians and did.
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Right-wing media has latched onto the conspiracy theory as evidence that Trump didn't collude with Russia.
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Plotting to collude with governments to censor the internet never goes down well, especially in double helpings.
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The Trump campaign's efforts to collude with the Russian government against Hillary Clinton have now been established.
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Do you think that place was organized enough to collude with the lunch counter across the street?
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In an article titled "The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians," Tait told Lawfareblog.
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Trump earlier this week claimed on Twitter that it's "commonly agreed" he did not collude with Russia.
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The DOJ has a duty to make sure companies don't collude to the detriment of their customers.
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Putin didn't need to collude to make him president, but he needed to blackmail him into running.
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Moscow has denied any interference, and Trump has said that his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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The steep steel price volatility, the CCI's investigation arm said, provided the companies an "incentive to collude".
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And the facts are pointing in a very bad direction for the gang that can't collude straight.
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The point is, could they have simply been hiding attempts to collude, because we now know there were several attempts to collude, whether you&aposre talking about Cambridge Analytics, whether you&aposre talking about Papadopoulos, whether you&aposre talking about Donald Trump Jr., whether you&aposre talking about Paul Manafort and his willingness to brief Putin cronies about these things, it seems that there were attempts to collude, but what we have not yet seen is evidence of actual collusion right now.
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For months, he has insisted that he did not collude with the Russian effort to influence the election.
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They collude, and they fight dirty, and they have prevented their industry from moving into the 21st century.
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Trump maintains that his campaign did not collude with Russia and has repeatedly attacked the investigation on Twitter.
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It explores Italian art between the wars and how the avant-garde came to collude with Mussolini's government.
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We believe it presents overwhelming proof that the president did not collude with regard to the 2016 election.
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Russia denies trying to interfere in the election, and Trump says his team did not collude with Moscow.
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They thrive in a corrupt environment where local politicians either collude or are too fearful to push back.
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I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government.
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Trump has repeatedly called the probe a "witch hunt" and insisted that he did not collude with Russia.
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Trump has repeatedly blasted the investigation as a "witch hunt" and insisted he did not collude with Russia.
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Will The Vixen collude with a group of Russian drag queens and take the crown in an upset?
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Why he still seems to want to collude with Putin to reshape U.S. foreign policy remains a mystery.
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What we don't know: Did Trump campaign officials collude with Russian agents on the release of the emails?
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Flag-waving super-patriots who called Democrats unpatriotic are perfectly OK when Republicans actively collude with foreign dictators.
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In tweets, Trump stated that the informant "never" reported on potential Russian efforts to collude with his campaign.
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In fact, however, Congress and presidents purportedly collude to avoid votes in Congress if the decision is controversial.
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Moscow has denied interference in the U.S. election, and President Trump has said his campaign did not collude.
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He sought to collude — or, more accurately, extort — a foreign government into helping him win a domestic election.
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The president has repeatedly said that he and his campaign did not collude with Russia in the effort.
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And then he tried to characterize the report as one that says Trump did not "collude" with Russia.
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To find out whether pricing algorithms manipulate markets or even collude, regulators should run simulations on their own computers.
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Instead, McConnell highlighted that after a lengthy investigation, Mueller found Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what they say, give a man a roast chicken, he will collude for a day.
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Investors largely shrugged off Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that President Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia.
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If the U.S. government wants to do something about the environment, it doesn't need to collude with foreign nations.
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If the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia, as Trump maintains, where would this sense of obligation come from?
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Trump has denied he directed Cohen to break the law, and has insisted he did not collude with Russia.
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Trump has consistently denounced the probe, calling it a "witch hunt" and insisting he did not collude with Russia.
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Sometimes things collude to create beauty; components merge and hatch at just the right moment and excellence is born.
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By this logic, American carmakers have failed to penetrate the Japanese market because dealers and regulators collude against them.
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This I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government.
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"I did not collude with Russians, nor do I know of anyone in the campaign who did," he said.
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Trump has repeatedly said he did not collude with Russia and has sought a quick conclusion of the probe.
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This show is a study in ultra-refinement in which art, craft and invention collude in a burnished glow.
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The fact is that the Russians did not have to collude to achieve their purpose of disruption and influence.
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The existing system practically forces anyone who wants to build something to collude in the destruction of the rivers.
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But in politics, because it's a rigged system, because it's a corrupt enterprise, in politics you're allowed to collude.
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In terms of intent to collude (and possibly conspiracy), Trump Jr.'s e-mail chain is the smoking gun.
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Read more " _____ Bob Dreyfuss in The Nation: "Did Trump's campaign collude with the Russians to subvert the US elections?
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The owners would seem to be far too canny to collude against players as they did in the 1980s.
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One that Democrats have spent insufficient time exploring is the possibility that Mueller will conclude that Trump did not collude.
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Certainly it seems that this particular effort to collude, if it was one, doesn't seem to have been very effective.
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Fox News has spent the week downplaying Trump Jr.'s attempt to collude with the Russian government during the election.
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" Key quote: "I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government.
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Trump has often raged about the Russia investigation and asserted that he did not collude with Russia or obstruct justice.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said.
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That by no means proves that the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia, or that Russia didn't impact the outcome.
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Trump has said his campaign did not collude with Russia, which flatly denies allegations it meddled in the U.S. vote.
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This concentration makes currencies vulnerable to rapid swings should small groups of powerful investors decide to collude to manipulate markets.
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Start with the biggest question of all: Did the president and his campaign collude with Russia to sabotage Clinton's candidacy?
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Russia denies trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and Trump says his team did not collude with Moscow.
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"There is a feeling among workers that the old unions collude with the bosses and the government," Mr. Hilburger said.
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Just three weeks later, his lawyer unveils their 2020 plan: to collude with a foreign power to fix the election.
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Op-Ed Contributors Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election?
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," he wrote.
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"It's hard to collude with someone if you don't know you're dealing with someone with the Russian government," said Rep.
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"I deeply resent any allegation that I would collude with the oppressive Russian state," the Republican strategist Roger Stone harrumphed.
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The Journal story is the strongest evidence yet that Flynn may have actually attempted to collude with Russia against Clinton.
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Uber told CNBC the "greyballing" is for "fraudulent users," including "opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings'" by local authorities.
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But another more important question remains: Did the Trump campaign collude with Russia in its efforts to subvert America's democratic process?
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At least three current and former ISU officials said judges sometimes collude to down-vote certain countries and up-vote others.
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And he insisted he did not collude or coordinate with Russians as part of an effort to meddle in the campaign.
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Contrary to Trump's vindication assertions, we know, to a certainty, that senior members of his team sought to collude with Russia.
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One question looms above all others: Did Trump and his inner circle collude with Russia to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential bid?
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But the president insists his campaign did not collude with Russia and that his firing of Comey did not obstruct justice.
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"They thought we colluded, but we couldn't even collude with our local offices," Kushner said, according to notes on the speech.
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"They should feel free to talk to each other and collude and drive as stingy a bargain as possible," he said.
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That being said, it's satisfying that the special counsel found that Trump campaign members did not collude with the Russian government.
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Trump later said he holds Putin responsible for election interference, but continued to stress that he did not collude with Russia.
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"Roger Stone did not conspire, collude, or do any action to subvert the electoral process," Robert Buschel, Stone's lawyer, said Friday.
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Personally, I think it's ridiculous that NFL owners would ever collude against anyone, especially players, whom they love and care about.
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That's a win for the squeaky-clean, honestly run NFL, even if the ruling never says the NFL didn't actually collude.
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And, I just want to know to what extent and what degree did they try to collude or interrupt his services.
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In an interview in Mumbai, the bank's chief executive, P. S. Jayakumar, said branch employees did not collude with the Guptas.
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Moscow has denied interference in the U.S. election, and President Donald Trump has said his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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"We couldn't collude amongst ourselves," argued the former Trump campaign adviser J.D. Gordon (himself stealing a line from Senator Lindsey Graham).
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Months after the election, every time I heard the words "Russia" and "collude," this realization swirled in my head, enveloping everything.
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Yet, when put in context, it simply follows through on Mitch McConnell's intent to collude with the administration's corrupt cover-up.
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He emphasized at a rare press conference Monday that he did not collude with Moscow or have improper contacts with Russians.
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Democrats said the timing of Donald Trump Jr.'s emails and his meeting with the lawyer showed an intent to collude.
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NANCY STARK, NEW YORK To the Editor: Re "Kushner Says He 'Did Not Collude With Russians' " (front page, July 25): Reading your article on Jared Kushner's meeting with Senate investigators, I cannot help but find it curious that the Trump administration is attempting to explain away a clear attempt to collude with Russia by claiming gross incompetence.
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The news industry is readying a lobbying push with a straightforward, but audacious request: Please let us collude against Google and Facebook.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," the special adviser says.
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Cuban cultural officials collude with Cuban state security by insisting publicly that he is not a real artist, but merely an activist.
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David Cicilline — sponsor of a bill that would essentially let the media collude in negotiations against the likes of Facebook and Google.
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The credit agencies collude with many local employment agencies to offer loan schemes with interest rates of up to 60 per cent.
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It turns out, the government argued that AT&T and Comcast would collude to… black out their networks from rival streaming services.
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Margaret Flowers is demanding #OpenDebates in a two party system in which media and Democrats collude to exclude candidates on the ballot.
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" Asked whether Trump would have "the potential to cooperate or collude with a foreign power to win the presidency," Cohen answered: "Yes.
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His admission comes after months of blanket denials from Trump officials about a willingness to collude with Russians during the 22017 campaign.
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"I did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did," Trump Jr. said in his testimony.
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Another key exception for attorney-client privilege is when a lawyer and his or her client collude on potential crime or fraud.
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"Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election," White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Monday.
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But I ask you not to collude with the criminal Kim regime or to obstruct others from working toward my people's freedom.
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Plenty of evidence in the public record also suggests that Trump's campaign may indeed have sought to collude with the Russian government.
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The full report, the key findings of which were published in March, finds that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia.
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But instead of just repeating his claim that he didn't collude with Russia, Trump is now targeting the man leading the probe.
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The fact that the president did not collude with Russians to pervert our democratic process is an outcome every American should cheer.
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One of his former foreign policy aides has pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about his attempts to collude with Russia.
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When officers use excessive force, the report found, they sometimes collude to falsify documents as a way to cover up the truth.
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To counteract your fears and paralyzing perfectionism, it can be useful to find people to collude with in your push toward completion.
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Does it really track that Russian intelligence was running a disinformation and hacking campaign but sought to collude with Donald Trump Jr.?
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Democrats have seized on the meeting, claiming it as evidence that Trump officials sought to collude with the Russians in the campaign.
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Nunberg told Tapper that he thinks Page is a "scumbag," and said he suspects Page of trying to collude with the Russians.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," the special adviser said.
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And Comey&aposs notes, the single biggest unreported part of it was Trump saying to Comey, hey, I didn&apost collude with Russia.
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I think what we have seen in the Papadopoulos indictment and what we&aposve seen several other times is a willingness to collude.
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Devin Nunes of California claiming the committee's investigation was thorough and showed that the Trump campaign did not collude with the Russian government.
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Trump also said that Cohen's testimony "proved" that Trump's campaign did not collude with Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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The White House contended this week that "nothing has changed" following Comey's statements, maintaining that Trump campaign associates did not collude with Russia.
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Trump also hit back against Mueller's charges on Monday, arguing his campaign did not collude with Russia and that Manafort was old news.
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Manafort has denied attempting to violate his bail agreement, and maintains that he did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Christie's theory -- these guys weren't smart enough to collude -- isn't exactly the most flattering when it comes to the President and his family.
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Kushner said after the meeting all of his actions in the 2016 campaign were proper and that he did not collude with Russia.
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So, for the sake of the Trump family, let me be clear: Opposition researchers do not attempt to collude with foreign powers. Ever.
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It reached out to Trump aides like George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone and, yes, Donald Trump Jr. So there was plenty to collude with.
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Yes, the Russians tried to disrupt the election, but I have seen no evidence that Mr. Trump tried to collude with the Russians.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in the statement.
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Kushner said after that meeting that all of his actions in the 2016 campaign were proper and he did not collude with Russia.
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The president and his allies have regularly called the investigation a "witch hunt," and Trump has insisted he did not collude with Russia.
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While I am doubtful that any competent Russian spy would go to Trump Jr. to collude, Manafort would seem an almost irresistible target.
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But you know, my colleagues had a habit of asking three questions: Did you conspire, did you collude, did you coordinate with Russians?
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I didn't collude or cooperate or coordinate with any Russian, Russian agency, Russian government or anybody else, to try and impact this election.
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Kushner said after the meeting that all of his actions in the 2016 campaign were proper and he did not collude with Russia.
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Technically, that is often true: So far none of the trio has been charged with a conspiracy to collude with Russia, for instance.
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Put another way, the Trump administration is paying a heavy political price for its apparent willingness to collude with Moscow during the campaign.
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Trump and his team insist to this day that they didn't collude with Russia in its attempts to interfere with the presidential election.
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The Trump campaign did not collude with Russian operatives, according to Mueller, and now, 2,374 of the items on Etsy are essentially worthless.
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A congressional committee, led by Trump ally Mike Conway, announced in mid-March that Trump's 2016 campaign did not collude with Russian operatives.
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" In a tweet he wrote that it was desperation for the two to "collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination.
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Von Spakovsky's story, published January 5, argues that Democrats did collude to deprive black voters of access to the ballot in Perry County, Alabama.
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The attendings collude in a lounge to block the new doctor and her student surgeons from every Operating Room she tries to get into.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in the prepared remarks.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in his written statement.
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Trump has long decried the special counsel's investigation, often calling it a "witch hunt" and maintaining that his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in his July testimony.
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Trump has floated this argument in recent days as possible logic for why his campaign did not collude with Russia to influence the election.
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"It's confirmation of everything we knew: that he was essentially trying to collude with a foreign government to interfere with an election," said Rep.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in the statement Monday.
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But with Trump under new scrutiny for seemingly trying to collude with a foreign government, he appears to be back in the limelight again.
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For those people who think that collusion is not going on, these folks said they would be happy to collude with a foreign power.
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "The guy who has spent two years screaming tweeting, 'No collusion!' is now saying 'If anyone's down the collude, I'm your guy!
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Watch the video above to see how Fox News circled the wagons to defend Trump Jr.'s effort to collude with the Russian government.
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They had another case that went to the heart of whether the Trump campaign had attempted to collude with Russia officials during the 2016 campaign.
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They do not want to seem like killjoys, and yet they do not want to collude with activities that make a mockery of their doctrines.
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"Asking someone to collude with you in privacy is not the norm in relationships, so there has to be a pretty big reason," Brateman says.
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Instead, schools are free to collude with each other to fix player compensation at the value of athletic scholarships and small cost-of-attendance stipends.
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More importantly, Republicans inclined to believe he didn't collude with the Russians seem quite willing to believe he might have obstructed justice after canning Comey.
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So, first Trump asked Comey to collude with him in obstructing justice — thus giving Comey the ammunition to torch Trump if he were ever crossed.
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Virginia Tech researchers have produced evidence showing that thousands of Android applications can "collude" to share and leak information stored on smartphones without user permission.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner writes in the 11-page statement.
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"I did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did," Trump Jr. told the panel, according to a transcript.
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"Let me very clear: I did not collude with Russia nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so," Kushner said.
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Based on this first lackluster effort, one could easily conclude that NBC is using back channels to collude with the Russians for crass ratings benefits.
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The president has repeatedly railed against the probe as a "witch hunt," and has insisted that he did not collude with Russia in the election.
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The president has insisted he did not collude with Russia and has regularly called the probe a "witch hunt" and a "hoax" perpetuated by Democrats.
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The Trump associates at the meeting were offered an invitation to collude and coordinate with Russians in their campaign to defeat Clinton and elect Trump.
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The second wife to collude with her husband's clandestine adventures (the first, Donna, even brought him the occasional snack), Ms. Foos remains a placid enigma.
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Trump repeated his assertion that his campaign did not collude with Moscow's effort to interfere in the 2016, the central question of the Mueller probe.
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Nadler pointed out that while the Trump campaign did not collude with the Russians, the campaign was aware of the efforts and didn't discourage them.
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The airlines said the litigation should be dismissed because there was no proof of an agreement to collude, or that they reduced capacity in tandem.
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"Let me very clear: I did not collude with Russia nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so," he said.
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There could be more indictments connected to other attempts to collude with the Trump campaign that may include intent on the part of campaign officials.
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"There may be an open question as to whether the President, then the candidate, sought to collude with the Russian government in 2016," O'Rourke said.
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The implications of these indictments do not prove that the Trump campaign —not to mention the president — did not collude with Russian agents in 2016.
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First: Thank God the president of the United States, whatever else we may think of him, did not collude with Russia to get himself elected.
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In advance of that testimony he released a prepared statement to make it absolutely clear that he did not collude with Russia; that, if he did collude with Russia, it was only because he is inexperienced and super-overworked and the Trump campaign was a mess that was never properly staffed; and that he is an innocent creature at heart, like a (very tall) baby.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: MUELLER INTERVIEWS CYBERSECURITY EXPERT WHO CLAIMS HE WAS "RECRUITED TO COLLUDE WITH THE RUSSIANS": A cybersecurity expert who claimed he was "recruited to collude with the Russians" to meddle in the 85033 election has been interviewed by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, Business Insider reported.
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We should say on the left, they believe the theories are much simpler, that Trump really did collude or that Vladimir Putin has something on him.
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Did I really know that competing private defense agencies wouldn't just collude and establish a new state more oppressive and coercive than the one we've got?
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Last week, Der Spiegel published an explosive report alleging that the major German automakers formed a secret cartel in the 1990s to collude on diesel emissions.
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WATTERS: Hillary was the one that paid millions of dollars to dig up Russian dirt to collude, and to influence an election, and possibly an investigation.
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Corrupt cops have been found not only to tamper with (or concoct) witness statements, but also to plant evidence and collude with victims or their families.
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In summarising the Mueller report he offered a less radical argument, that Mr Trump could not have obstructed justice because he did not collude with Russia.
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The second assumption was that all case workers do is process paperwork and collude with folks who are requesting resources in order to defraud the system.
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" Wasserman Schultz followed up, asking, "In your opinion and experience, would he have the potential to cooperate or collude with a foreign presidency at all costs?
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"The people who collude to keep people like this in positions of power, that's the real problem, the people who keep turning blind eyes," Munn says.
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Wyden said he viewed Trump Jr.'s statement on Sunday as an "admission" of attempting to collude with a Russian person to bolster the Trump campaign.
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The president has frequently decried the Russia investigation as a "witch hunt," and has maintained that his campaign did not collude with the Kremlin in 2016.
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Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer says recent revelations make it abundantly clear that the Trump campaign sought to collude with Moscow to influence last year's presidential election.
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Democrats are pointing to the meeting as proof that Trump's campaign sought to collude with Moscow amid its efforts to meddle in last year's presidential election.
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" What it comes down to, Noah marveled, is that "Donald Trump Jr.'s defense is that he tried to collude, but instead he got Russian catfished.
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"I did not collude with any foreign government and did not know anyone who did," Donald Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017.
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Trump's critics have said the meeting is evidence that campaign officials were eager to collude with the Russians, even if that effort failed in this instance.
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Here was proof that members of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign had, at the very least, been eager to collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
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While one militia may brag about not having fired a shot, others say they are "hunting Mexicans" and collude with Border Patrol agents providing unauthorized assistance.
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"When the deportations begin, anybody that voted for that bargain Thursday also voted to collude with Republicans to lead to the deportation of Dreamers," Gutiérrez said.
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The government, employers and the main Mexican autoworkers union, the Confederation of Mexican Workers, frequently collude to maintain a system of "protection contracts" without workers' consent.
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For starters, the US President is under investigation from a special counsel digging into whether members of his campaign tried to collude with a foreign government.
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Trump has denied collusion, but evidence made public so far points to at least a desire to collude, even if Trump's cronies weren't successful in doing it.
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Last night, most people were talking about the explosive revelations that Donald Trump Jr. sought to collude with a Russian lawyer to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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Here's a theory: Because it takes two to collude, and if one party doesn't know what the other is doing, that's a way out politically and legally.
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But the emails, first obtained by The New York Times, are the clearest evidence yet that the Trump campaign was willing to collude with the Russian government.
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" Trump reiterated his position that he did not assist Russia in allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election that he won, saying, "I don't collude with Russia.
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For years, we faced the stigma of mental illness and how denial plays out when the patient, the family and society collude to maintain the status quo.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has interviewed a cybersecurity expert who claims he was "recruited to collude with the Russians" in the 2016 election, Business Insider reported Tuesday.
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The president said Mueller shouldn't testify because the report found that neither Trump nor his campaign conspired to collude with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
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For over two years, President Trump has repeatedly and emphatically stated that he did not collude with Russia, vigorously defending himself from waves of slanderous partisan accusations.
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The human-trafficking trial is an opportunity for Thailand to end the impunity that has allowed traffickers, and the officials who collude with them, to operate freely.
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Short of Mueller producing an email from Trump saying "Yes, let's collude with Russia ASAP!" those people will not change their view — either on Mueller or Trump.
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Mr. Mueller is investigating two chief issues: Did the Trump campaign collude with the Russians, and has the president obstructed justice by interfering in the Russia investigation?
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These stories suggest that at least some on his team were ready and willing to collude with the Russian government on some sort of anti-Clinton shenanigans.
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Right-wing politicians and newspapers have spread a sense that the nongovernmental organizations are essentially profiteers who collude with human traffickers to aid and abet illegal immigration.
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He was not a risk to collude with the Russians or to be blackmailed but was at risk of adversely affecting the integrity of our intelligence institutions.
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There are some signs that Manafort tried to use his role on the campaign not to collude with Russia but instead to enhance his future business prospects.
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The British-based environmental group Global Witness found that government and forest agency officials collude with businessmen to illegally cut Cambodian timber and transport it to China.
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In a sense, the politicians and the business people would collude and then they'd sort of split the difference and keep some of the profits for themselves.
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Meanwhile, Trump asserted it's now "commonly agreed" that his campaign didn't collude with the Kremlin, though he predictably cited no evidence to back up his grand claims.
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Residents of Farah city have complained bitterly about security in the province, where some police units are alleged to collude with Taliban fighters, selling them weapons and ammunition.
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Given the recent news stories about Donald Trump Jr.'s attempt to collude with the Russian government, the eldest Trump son has been in the news a lot.
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Donald Trump Jr.'s own defense of himself is that he attempted to collude with Russian agents but they didn't have any useful information and so he didn't.
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The point, then, is not that Trump and Russia apparently didn't collude — but that Moscow found a way to get uncomfortably close to a major US presidential campaign.
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But in the new interview, Trump chose not to go as far as his conservative colleagues and instead said Mueller will likely find Trump didn't collude with Russia.
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The currency markets showed limited response to an official report that concluded that U.S. President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia during the presidential elections in 2016.
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Investors largely shrugged off Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that President Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia, despite S&P 23.4 futures initially rising on Sunday.
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" She started off by saying, "Trump had his bodyguard take a dismissal letter, complete with a totally normal digression on how the president didn't collude with Russia, okay?!
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But they repeatedly declined to comment specifically about media reports that Trump asked them to publicly say that evidence showed that Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia.
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The facts are that the president has been cleared of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to collude with the Russians to interfere with the presidential election of 85033.
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First, he did collude with Americans in the form of voluntarily assisting and meeting with the FBI, the DOJ and people such as Ohr between 2628 and 28503.
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They were quick to say that such a meeting was, at best, phenomenally stupid and, at worst, showed a willingness to collude with Moscow to tilt the election.
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Steele's raw intelligence reports cited unnamed sources alleging these communications were part of a widespread effort to collude on the election and secure the White House for Trump.
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He accused the Obama administration of using settlements on regulatory matters to collude with environmentalists and obligate the agency to write rules, thus thwarting the usual regulatory process.
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Contrary to the DNC's false reports, I have never met those Russians, and I did not know of any effort to coordinate, collude or conspire with Russia. Period.
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The federal bribery statute -- 22017 U.S.C. § 21962(b)(21962)(B) -- makes it a federal crime for a public official to "collude" in a fraud on the United States.
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Investors largely shrugged off Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that President Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia, despite S&P 25.8 futures initially rising on Sunday.
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It is bad news for everyone who cannot obtain a passport without the requirement imposed by the UK government that they should collude in their own social invisibility.
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Finally, we have allowed too much common ownership, permitting large shareholders to take a stake in each of the major airlines, creating incentives to collude instead of compete.
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Professors who denounce campus political correctness as the greatest threat we face to free speech collude with right-wing activists to conduct opposition research on left-wing students.
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Fact Check of the Day President Trump has repeatedly pointed to the findings of a House Intelligence Committee report to insist his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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Of course, not all teams would collude if given the opportunity, but even suspicions of coordination could damage the World Cup, and the reputation of soccer in general.
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In interviews prior to the partnership, Jay-Z was an outspoken Kaepernick supporter, alleging that the NFL did collude against the quarterback to keep him off the field.
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More likely, Pence is waiting for the gang that can't collude straight to drop even more damning evidence into the special counsel's lap — enough to make him president.
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These groups do collude with each other occasionally in order to ramp up attacks on foreign forces, yet each one of them would dearly like to be dominant.
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On Monday, President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani consistently presented a third line of defense: Even if Mr. Trump did collude with the Russians, he committed no crime.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in a prepared statement released ahead of Monday's meeting.
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"If this was an effort to try to collude with the opposition then we're guilty of colluding with the ruling party as well," NDI president Kenneth Wollack told Reuters.
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Bus drivers collude with gas station operators to skim money off the top of the order, charging for 50 liters of fuel but only getting 40 liters pumped in.
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In the back of the gallery a group of bright pink lulus collude in a corner, partially obscured by a wall, nestled together as if engaging in girlish gossip.
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Mark Warner of Virginia asked Coats and Rogers about media reports that Trump asked them to publicly say that evidence showed that Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia.
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President Trump on Saturday insisted Russia never wanted him to be president, a claim he says means Moscow did not collude to influence the 2016 election on his behalf.
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It's evident in the increased concentration of companies and their unchecked ability to collude against workers, through anti-poaching and mandatory arbitration agreements that preclude worker-based class actions.
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We got the Democrat Congresswoman at Reagan National and raised the issue ... isn't it a good thing for the country if the Prez didn't collude with Putin and Co.?
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On Monday, his lead lawyer in the special counsel investigation, Rudolph Giuliani, presented a new argument: Even if Mr. Trump did collude with the Russians, he committed no crime.
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It said Buhari had fully cooperated with INEC and that the council hoped the commission would "remain neutral and impartial in this process" and not collude with the PDP.
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Yes, it would be good if there were a stronger commitment to free speech from team owners, and if they weren't so willing to collude against their players' activism.
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"He didn't collude with Russia, he doesn't know anything about it, and if anyone in his campaign did, he wants the public to know it," Gowdy said on CBS.
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Over the holiday weekend, Trump made clear his frustration with the indictment, unleashing a series of tweets claiming the charges prove his campaign did not collude with the Kremlin.
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During that meeting, the California Republican said Assange offered him "firsthand" information purportedly proving that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to help sway the 85033 election.
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That you have to pick one option or the other: Either Trump was a great candidate (and therefore didn't need to collude to win) or his side was colluding.
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How and when exactly Mueller's investigation will finally conclude has captured significant public attention as President Donald Trump fiercely maintains that his campaign did not collude with the Kremlin.
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"The emails are the end of the idea pushed by the administration and the president that there is absolutely no evidence of intent to coordinate or collude," he said.
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Orrin Hatch's response to Donald Trump Jr.'s emails revealing that the top echelons of the Trump campaign were trying to collude with the Russian government to win the election.
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To have any impact, you'd need a labyrinthine network of local election officials to collude against a candidate and then bamboozle the bipartisan poll watchers tasked with keeping them honest.
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Cases of double ownership of land are common in Kenya, where cartels collude with officials to create parallel titles for parcels of land they want to acquire illegally, experts said.
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On Monday he met with staff on the Senate intelligence panel and said afterward that he didn't collude with Russia and didn't know anyone from the campaign who did. Rep.
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However, the potential that Trump could feel emboldened by the apparent conclusion from the Mueller report that the president's campaign did not collude with Russia might delay progress with China.
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This makes it easy for cartels to collude with land officials to create parallel titles for parcels of land they want to acquire illegally, public land being the prime target.
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Because for the everyday man to accept [the prevalence of sexual misconduct] means looking inside at themselves for the ways they either collude or benefit from what's happening to women.
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White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters off-camera earlier Monday Trump Jr. "certainly" did not collude with Russians to influence the election, according to NBC.
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The strike force will use data - such as selective bidding that suggests companies are splitting a market - to seek out and prosecute government contractors who collude, according to the department.
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The president highlighted the senator's comments as proof that his campaign did not collude, but did not mention that Burr was referring to evidence the committee has reviewed to date.
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Barr in a letter wrote Mueller and his team concluded that Trump and his campaign associates did not collude or conspire with Russian officials leading up to the 2016 election.
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"Wow," he wrote on Twitter late Sunday night, "just announced that Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!"
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Collusion or the intent to collude has already been proven by Don Jr.'s enthusiastic response to taking a meeting with the Russians that promised damning information on Hillary Clinton.
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The individual also said that Trump is comfortable with participating in the questioning and believes it will show that his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 election.
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"Legally exported US firearms have been used in massacres, disappearances, and by security forces that collude with criminal groups in Mexico on a broad scale," according to the Intercept report.
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In one common scheme, agents collude with property owners to sell homes and then race to petition judges that the sale should be invalidated because the seller was temporarily insane.
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Allies of Trump have pointed to the fact that none of the indictments against the Trump associates were tied to any conspiracy to collude with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
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The opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia alleged that Cohen had traveled to Prague to collude with Moscow, although Cohen has denied being in Prague ahead of the election.
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There is no such partisan agreement on the question of collusion: 87% of Democrats say Trump's campaign did collude with the Russian government, 88% of Republicans say it did not.
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The fact is that you do not need actual Russians in the United States for Russian collusion, as any more than being Russian means you are more likely to collude.
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Democrats say that Trump Jr.'s willingness to accept opposition research portrayed as part of Russia's support for the president shows a clear intent to collude with the Russian government.
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While Mueller's team backed the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia worked to help Trump win the 2016 election, it concluded that Trump's team did not collude with Moscow.
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A conspiracy theory is the belief that a group of people — often powerful people — collude in secret in order to make plans that are widely seen as malevolent or evil.
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There was speculation that Mueller's case against Manafort for financial crimes was an attempt to pressure him to flip on the Trump campaign and spill about efforts to collude with Russia.
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On Thursday, Giuliani sought to clarify his statements, saying once again in a tweet that he had not backed away from his claims that the campaign did not collude with Russians.
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" The National Association of Probation Officers revealed that "prison staff collude with the use of cannabis unless it becomes so virulent that a purge is necessary for credibility to be retained.
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Trump said Comey's statements vindicated his claims that he did not collude with Russia to tip the election in his favor and that he did not interfere with the federal probe.
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The emails make Trump Jr.—and by extension the effort to collude with Russia—look like sheer incompetence, and incompetence is much better than malevolence when you start talking about treason.
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Woodward told New York Magazine for a story published Saturday that a reporter wishing to uncover whether Trump campaign associates attempted to collude with Russia's government would need to visit Moscow.
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A source close to Trump Jr. also said the president's son viewed the end of the probe as proving that he didn't collude with Russia or lie under oath to Congress.
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Following the indictment, Trump has sent roughly a dozen tweets about the Russia investigation, claiming his campaign did not collude with Russia and blaming the Obama administration for not doing more.
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"I think he's going to be fair," Trump said, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the probe, while repeatedly insisting that his associates did not collude with Moscow.
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"The intention of some forces in Taiwan to collude with separatists seeking 'Tibet independence' and to create disturbances will have a severe impact on relations across the Taiwan Strait," Ma said.
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The Turkish president needs to be assured that a semiautonomous region for Syrian Kurds, a long-marginalized minority, would not threaten his country and would not collude with the Turkish Kurds.
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The league regularly repeated that argument, saying there was no effort to collude against Kaepernick and that any team's decision to keep him off the field was a decision made independently.
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Look, if you spotted Donald Trump two pieces of bread and behind him was a refrigerator full of ham, he couldn't collude with the Russians to make a ham sandwich. Right?
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"There is no evidence of collusion, or even the desire to collude with the Russians, by anyone in the Trump campaign … is something that was true 48 hours ago," Colbert said.
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Fresh from allegations of collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election, Trump turns out to have been trying to collude with Ukraine to arrange foreign interference in the 2020 election.
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The former special counsel found insufficient evidence to charge Trump with conspiracy to collude with Moscow but declined to make a prosecutorial judgement as to whether the president obstructed subsequent probes.
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Disorderly distribution and scant oversight have also allowed many of the country's 244,2000 state-approved farm retailers to collude amongst themselves to sell subsidized fertilizers at higher prices, the investigator added.
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There is one guy in the world who believes that she tried to get the Ukrainian embassy to collude with the Democrats and every other person says that did not happen.
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He has since said that he was informed by an intermediary about the plans of the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and has denied allegations that he helped collude with foreign powers.
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"Executives at Teva Pharmaceuticals allegedly orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to collude surreptitiously with competitors, artificially inflate the prices of over a hundred generic drugs, and destroy evidence of criminal conduct," they wrote.
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C.: It was President Trump himself who said, number one, I didn&apost collude with Russia, but if anyone connected with my campaign did, I want the FBI to find that out.
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Hannity claims he "hasn't yet been wrong yet in all of this," asks Nunes how "it's possible in the United States of America" for Clinton to collude *both* with Russia & the FBI.
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So the DOJ claimed that AT&T would collude with Comcast to block out rivals to services like DirecTV Now, and AT&T's argument in defense was that it… launched DirecTV Now.
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Given the recent news stories about Donald Trump Jr.'s attempt to collude with the Russian government, the eldest Trump son has been in the news a lot the past few days.
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Trump's position was possibly strengthened by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion after a 22-month investigation that the Republican president's campaign team did not collude with Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Standing behind a White House logo outside the West Wing, he said "I did not collude with Russia," adding "I do not know of anyone else" on the campaign who did so.
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They found roughly 16,000 pairs of apps that could potentially "collude" in this way, according to the study released on Monday, a relatively small amount when considering the number of apps analyzed.
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These trusted agents are often regarded as a threat by the blockchain community, in that they might possibly collude into centralized control points that would harm the trustless nature of the network.
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The MSM, which loves to criticize Sinclair media when Sinclair has its TV stations carry the same editorial message, collude to act like Sinclair - so long as the message is anti-Trump.
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"It was President Trump himself who said, No. 1, 'I didn't collude with Russia, but if anyone connected with my campaign did, I want the FBI to find that out,'" Gowdy said.
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The end of the Mueller investigation and the conclusion that the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia may allow Washington and Moscow to begin to try to fix diplomatic and business relations.
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It doesn't actually matter whether Trump's campaign did or didn't collude to influence the election, or whether Trump illegally fired the FBI director, because Republicans want him to be cleared of everything.
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This prospect horrifies leaders throughout the democratic world who are terrified by what could transpire if Putin and Trump collude in concert, without free-world witnesses, on whatever ventures they secretly discuss.
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He has long expressed a belief he should be able to deliver his argument personally to Mueller, which is that his campaign did not collude with Moscow's election-meddling efforts in 2016.
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Details: Transport for London, which regulates taxi and private hire services, cited a flaw in Uber's system that let unauthorized drivers collude with authorized ones to pick up riders under their account.
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Trump and his administration are facing multiple investigations in Washington focusing on the Kremlin's role in the 2016 presidential election and whether members of Trump's campaign possibly sought to collude with Russia.
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Those in the Trump camp use it regularly: "I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Jared Kushner told Congress this summer.
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In an eight-page letter, Cohen refuted, point-by-point, the salacious dossier from earlier this year that alleged Trump's campaign did collude with Russia and portrays Cohen as a central figure.
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Since there isn't a union, there hasn't been any type of collective power to sort of push back against the owners' ability to collude and set salaries at an artificially low level.
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Just last Friday, for instance, he falsely told reporters during a White House event that it "was proven" during Paul Manafort's sentencing hearing earlier in the day that he didn't collude with Russia.
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Markets might not be very competitive at all, some economists reckoned, because it is costly for workers to find and switch jobs, or because large firms dominate markets or collude to suppress pay.
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Let's be really clear about what Trump is saying now: He and his team didn't collude with Russia to win the White House — but even if they did, it wouldn't be a crime.
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Yet as 2017 winds down, there is still no clear answer to the central question at the heart of the probe: Did Trump's team collude with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign?
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A very simple question that should be asked is did Donald Trump or any of his associates in the campaign collude with Russia in hacking those emails and releasing them to the public?
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So, yes, he probably should come back and answer the question yet again, did you know anything about an effort by the Trump campaign to meet with Russia, not just collude with Russia?
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The people of The Deuce fall into roughly three categories: The women of the Deuce, the men of the Deuce, and the men who collude with Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli), a mob boss.
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He also stirred controversy on "Fox & Friends" by claiming collusion is not a crime; he later stood by the remarks but stressed that their position is the campaign did not collude with Russia.
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He would tell you, I don&apost know any Russians, I didn&apost talk to anyone, I didn&apost collude and if anyone in my campaign did, I didn&apost know about it.
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Obviously, he is annoyed by that investigation continuing to go on because it&aposs about him, and he believes and has said repeatedly and emphatically that he did not collude with the Russians.
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The far-right and pro-Trump media, like Fox News, latched on to the false information as proof that President Trump's campaign didn't collude with Russia to tip the election in his favor.
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One way to raise expectations of inflation and boost aggregate demand is for a central bank and its finance ministry to collude in printing money to pay for public spending (or tax cuts).
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" Maloni offered further comment to CNN after the initial publication of this story, saying: "Paul Manafort did not collude with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 election or to hack the DNC.
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He strikes the familiar notes: that his campaign did not collude with Russia, that he did not obstruct justice as president, that Hillary Clinton is the real criminal, and, of course, WITCH HUNT.
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There was some speculation that the sentencing memo would show the special counsel's pursuit of a criminal conspiracy to collude with a foreign power, but there were few new details in the document.
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Trump said Comey's statements vindicated his long-held claims that he did not collude with Russia to tip the election in his favor and that he did not interfere with the federal probe.
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Trump on Twitter Sunday alleged Democrats seeking to have Mueller testify are looking for a "redo" after the special counsel's report concluded Trump did not collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
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The result may be increasingly crooked governance, as state actors collude with criminal groups to provide the protection and services — and gain the legitimacy — that they cannot provide or achieve on their own.
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His comments about WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign have attracted the attention of Russia investigators, but Stone has insisted he did not talk to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or collude with the Russians.
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Simply by using the internet, we inadvertently give enormous amounts of data to corporations that collude with state actors who desire to attain a kind of omniscience about our individual lives and intentions.
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It also cited occasions when the tuna companies would have had opportunities to collude on prices, such as a joint advertising campaign through the National Fisheries Institute's Tuna Council from 2011 to 2012.
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Yet he keeps failing to disclose things that raise real questions about whether he tried to collude with Moscow during the campaign — and whether he's been trying to cover it up ever since.
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And I was instinctively acting out a familiar, but also ridiculous, paradigm of marriage, one in which we collude in the fiction that no one of the opposite sex ever draws our interest.
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The Competition Commission said Takata worked with other firms to fix prices, divide the market and collude in their bidding for four different seat belts and airbags contracts with as three auto makers.
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The Trump campaign did not need to collude with the Kremlin for Russia's cyber and covert influence campaign to be considered a serious breach of our electoral process, and hence our national security.
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In July 2017 following his meeting with Senate Intelligence Committee staff, he said "I did not collude with Russia," adding, "I do not know of anyone else" on the campaign who did so.
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"You would need a time machine in order to collude, and, as I said yesterday, Putin has not yet perfected a time machine," he said, referring to the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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Speculation is also mounting that Trump could seize on his new momentum from the report to pardon associates caught up in Mueller's web in crimes unrelated to a conspiracy to collude with Russia.
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Urban industrialization upended rural tradition, and populist uprisings, like the Pullman Strike and the Haymarket Riot, pitted an exasperated working class against a government that seemed to collude with the corporations exploiting it.
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If we are not to collude in this obnoxious distinction, people of Irish descent must celebrate their heritage in a radically different way: as the ultimate rebuke to a paranoid frenzy about immigration.
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GOWDY: It was President Trump himself who said, number one, I didn&apost collude with Russia, but if anyone connected with that the campaign did, I want the FBI to find that out. SEN.
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From manipulating LIBOR, a benchmark interest rate, to rigging the daily fix of foreign-exchange (FX) rates, traders have shown themselves ready not just to stretch the rules, but to collude in outright illegality.
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One matter that will be taken up is the FTC's use of Section Five, a portion of its authority that it uses to investigate companies which urge rivals to collude with them on price.
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Gardiner said he and the three defendants used an online chatroom dubbed "the cartel" to collude in influencing daily euro-dollar benchmark exchange rates, known as "fixes," in order to benefit their own positions.
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STUDY SHOWS ANDROID APPS ARE COLLUDING TO SHARE INFO: Virginia Tech researchers have produced evidence showing that thousands of Android applications can "collude" to share and leak information stored on smartphones without user permission.
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Before Mr. Weinstein's conviction on Monday, many black women assaulted by African-American men have had to make a difficult choice: suffer quietly or seek justice by appearing to collude with a racist system.
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This week brought another test of Fox News's willingness to defend the Trump administration in the face of growing evidence that the Trump campaign attempted to collude with the Russian government during the election.
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For instance, the more consumers are pushed to deal directly with price-bots (to thwart the transparency that allows rival sellers to collude), the more the algorithms will learn about the characteristics of individual customers.
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Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collude -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting -- though collusion never came to fruition.
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To pay illegal excessive agency fees, many women are given payment cards by employment agencies to transfer money each month at a 7-Eleven over to loan sharks the agencies collude with, Allan's organization found.
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In his most violent play, Aaron the "blackamoor" is a typical representation of villainy; he is an unrepentant outsider, refusing to collude in social codes by his "murders, rapes and massacres | Acts of black night".
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In politics -- Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators he did set up a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton, but that he "did not collude" with Russia's government.
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Instead, Trump asserted that he did not collude with Russia in the election, recounted his victory over Hillary Clinton and called the special counsel investigation "ridiculous" and a source of tension between the two countries.
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When Mike Conaway (R-TX) decided to end the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation last week by saying the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia, it vaulted the little known Republican into the spotlight.
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Indeed, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has said, "I did not collude with Russia," and he has advised that he does not know of anyone in the campaign who did.
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Speaking about the election and Trump with more openness than before, Clinton said she was "leaning" toward the belief that Trump's campaign did, in fact, collude with Russia to undermine her chances at the presidency.
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Waymo, which filed the lawsuit that is being heard, contends that Uber's purchase of Otto in August 2016 was part of a plot to collude with former Google engineers to steal the company's trade secrets.
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Also: Saying that Manafort was being sentenced for the financial crimes of which he was convicted last fall isn't some sort of blanket statement that Manafort never colluded -- or tried to collude -- with the Russians.
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Hours before Flynn was sentenced, Trump wished him "good luck" in a tweet that also again reiterated the president's claim that his campaign did not collude with Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
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The revelations underscore the fundamental issue for federal investigators as they probe Russia's interference in last year's election: Did the Trump campaign collude with Russians in an effort to hurt Clinton and win the White House?
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Trump regularly derides the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign as a "witch hunt," and has insisted he did not collude with Russia.
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The NSC's role to staff the President & coordinate the interagency on foreign policy—it is NOT the job of the NSC to map and target domestic political opponents or collude with outside allies to do so.
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In a prerecorded video for Stephen Colbert's Tuesday episode of "The Late Show," Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien "collude with each other on how to respond to the president," the show said in a tweet.
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Johnson is essentially telling us if the league is abusing the anti-trust exemption to collude to keep players like Colin out of the league, Congress should investigate to decide if the exemption should be revoked.
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"Let me be very clear: I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so," Kushner said at the White House after his interview in the Senate.
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In theory, if the friends I chose all know that they are my picks for account recovery, and if they're feeling devious, they could collude to get into my account without my email or phone number.
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"There is no evidence of collusion or even the desire to collude with the Russians by anyone in the Trump campaign — is something that was true 48 hours ago," Colbert began, shaking his head in amazement.
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Nearly two years later he ruled on a new union grievance: The owners, the union said, had devised another way to collude against the players by forming a databank to compare salary offers to free agents.
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"Unwitting" members of Trumpworld working with Russians, who didn't identify themselves as Russians, is not the same as a willful effort on behalf of members of the Trump campaign to actively collude with the Russian government.
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It's also very clear that it didn't have an impact on the election, and it's also very clear that the Trump campaign didn't collude with the Russians in any way for this process to take place.
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The billionaire businessman took to Twitter Sunday night to blast Cruz and Kasich's arrangement: Wow, just announced that Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!
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"As will become clear, I did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did," the statement said, promising to "set forth the sum and substance" of what happened at that meeting.
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It would mean his son and his son-in-law and his campaign manager had tried to collude with the Russians — endangering his campaign and giving a foreign government blackmail material over his presidency — without telling him.
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Vladimir Putin has not, as far as we know, managed to convince reporters or members of Congress to do his bidding, though there's plenty of evidence that some members of Trump's campaign staff did collude with Russia.
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On Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, O'Rourke said Trump invited Russia to interfere, even if Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded after a 22-month investigation that Trump and his campaign did not collude with Moscow.
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Not only did Paul Manafort directly collude with Russian intelligence to hack the D.N.C., the evidence confirms, but Jeff Sessions was in such frequent contact with Sergey Kislyak that they would often both fall asleep while FaceTiming.
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Trump has repeatedly insisted his campaign did not collude with the Russian government, writing on Twitter early Saturday that it is time for the "witch hunt" — a term he regularly uses to describe Mueller's investigation — to end.
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" This is true in the literal sense: there is no section in the criminal code that says "it is a crime for a political campaign to 'collude' with a foreign power in order to win an election.
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Why it matters: The revelation of the concerns come as the Justice Department is also arguing that AT&T could collude with a competitor, Comcast, in the case to block its $85 billion purchase with Time Warner.
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The trouble here is that we have, so far, no proof of anything but a willingness to collude with a foreign power's interference; and no clear evidence at all of the president's personal involvement with foreign actors.
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Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, claimed the emails did not offer any evidence of actual collusion, only that Donald Trump Jr. was, in theory, willing to collude with Russia.
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At times during his two-year investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller seemed to be laying out a broad conspiracy case that could ensnare Trump associates in a scheme to collude with Russia during the 26 presidential election.
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At times during his two-year investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller seemed to be laying out a broad conspiracy case that could ensnare Trump associates in a scheme to collude with Russia during the 27 presidential election.
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Eleonora Cassella, a member of Defend Europe based at the mission's headquarters in Catania, Italy, told VICE News that the crew would try to gather evidence to prove their suspicions that NGOs collude with the human traffickers.
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The president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner told some interns in July 2017, for example, that the campaign was so disorganized or decentralized "we couldn't even collude with our local offices," according to Foreign Policy.
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Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, told Senate investigators on Monday he had met with Russian officials four times last year but said he did not collude with Moscow to influence the 2016 U.S. election.
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I'm sympathetic to this view in theory; the report supports the interpretation that the president's campaign attempted to collude with a hostile power's interference in a US election and the president then engaged in a cover-up afterward.
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President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Monday that he "did not collude" with Russia and had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.
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It did not give any detailed examples of how it had come to this finding, but said the banks had a general agreement to collude and had used instant messaging, phone conversation and meetings to coordinate their activities.
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"I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in a written statement released before his appearance in closed-door meetings with members of the U.S. Congress.
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But let's say Kushner did, somehow, totally forget that he accompanied his brother-in-law to a meeting that, by his brother-in-law's own account, showed the Trump campaign's willingness to collude with Russia to damage Clinton.
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It's possible that these firms could collude to execute the attacks themselves, but many argue that compromising the blockchain is not in cryptocurrency miners' best interest since it could wreck the value of the coin they were mining.
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In fact the scheme is a cash machine that spews public money into the hands of fuel importers, employees of the state-owned oil company and government officials who collude to pocket cash paid to subsidise fictitious imports.
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"If employers collude to hold wages to a fixed, below-market rate, or if monopsony power increases over time, then wages could remain stubbornly resistant to upward pressure from increased labor demand in a booming economy," Krueger said.
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A majority of voters — 2628 percent — say that they believe the meetings with Kislyak were part of normal contact with a foreign government, compared to 28503 percent who said the meetings were arranged to collude over the campaign.
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The comments by European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager underline the unease among policy enforcers about technologically-advanced tools such as computer algorithms that make it easier for companies to collude without any formal agreement or even human interaction.
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The release of the documents will "give finality to everyone who wants to know what their government did to a political campaign" and verify that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during the election, Nunes said.
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But in his statement on Thursday, he described his decision to agree to the meeting as the byproduct of the chaotic, seat-of-the-pants campaign assembled by his father, rather than any attempt to collude with Russia.
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Instead, the mix of inexperience, incaution and conspiratorial glee on display in the emails suggests that people in Trump's immediate family — not just satellites like Roger Stone — would have been delighted to collude if the opportunity presented itself.
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"Let me be very clear: I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so," Kushner said to reporters after a closed-door conversation with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election on Tuesday, reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not a crime anyway.
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They thought the Russians were trying to, you know, play fast and loose and try to mess with the election, so they set out a bunch of traps, and then they try to lure the Russians in to collude.
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The Mueller report's findings that President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election should help to improve relations between the U.S. and Russia, Andrey Kostin, the chairman and president of VTB Bank, told CNBC.
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Over the weekend, Barr released his "principal conclusions" of the Mueller report, writing that the special counsel determined that President Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with the Russians to undermine the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said in a statement to congressional committees on Monday that he "did not collude" with Russia or seek back channels with Moscow last year.
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The Commission alleged that from at least 2007 traders had a general agreement to collude on prices for bids, offers and bid-offer spreads for the spot trades in relation to currency trading involving the dollar and rand currency.
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On Monday, Kushner released a lengthy statement ahead of his appearances, saying flatly that he did not collude with anyone from Russia or any other foreign government and has not used Russian money to finance his real estate deals.
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"The mix of inexperience, incaution and conspiratorial glee on display in the emails suggests that people in Trump's immediate family—not just satellites like Roger Stone—would have been delighted to collude if the opportunity presented itself," Douthat wrote.
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Washington (CNN)Despite President Donald Trump's claim that it is "commonly agreed" that his campaign did not collude with Russia during last year's election, Senate intelligence committee member Angus King said there's still plenty of investigating left to do.
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Prosecutors have accused the men of being part of a group of traders known as "the Cartel" or "the Mafia" and using telephone calls, emails and chat messages to collude with one another to manipulate the price of currencies.
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To the antifederalists, the historian Jack Rakove notes in "Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution," the Senate "loomed as a conspiratorial den" that could collude with the executive against the rest of the government.
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"Let me very clear: I did not collude with Russia nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so," Kushner said, speaking slowly and deliberately from notes, and often quoting directly from his written statement.
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Mr. Moon has also promised to make prosecutors more independent and to make it more difficult for a president to abuse the power of the office, limiting the ability of chaebol to collude with the authorities and escape justice.
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Trump's best wishes for Flynn came with yet another claim by the president that his campaign did not collude with Russian agents in their widespread efforts to influence the outcome of the 663 election that sent Trump to the White House.
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"For any group to collude to take advantage of the pain & anguish that African Americans — or any group — are experiencing in this country in order to sow further discord is disappointing & revolting," Solomon told BuzzFeed News in a Facebook message.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi called on Thursday for the creation of an outside, independent commission to investigate what she said was "cold, hard evidence" that President Donald Trump's family intended to collude with Russians to influence the election.
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Gubarev and his companies were named in the dossier on Russian election interference written by Steele, a former British intelligence agent, which linked them with attempts to use cyberattacks to influence the US elections and collude with Donald Trump's campaign.
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Without adequate tenure or security, farmers are not only less likely to invest in their land but also become vulnerable to powerful outsiders who have been found to collude with corrupt village leaders to seize property, the charity has found.
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Donald Trump's campaign didn't collude with Russia to win the 229 presidential election, according to the attorney general's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, and it doesn't seem like Trump obstructed the investigation into whether or not it did.
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In a four-page letter to Congress two days after he got Mueller's report, Barr said the report did not find that Trump or his campaign entered into a criminal conspiracy to collude with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election.
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For starters, civilian witnesses will come on the stand—usually people who want closure—and their worse angels will get the better of them and cause them to collude and do the wrong thing when the prosecutor has an agenda.
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Over the summer, Kushner submitted a statement to congressional committees, in which he denied any collusion with any foreign government: "I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," he said.
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Barr sent a letter to Congress late last month announcing the end of Mueller's probe and outlining the core conclusions of the special counsel's investigation, including a finding that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during the 85003 election.
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His story cuts across local politics, perverse incentives, and the limits of the welfare state, to arrive at that uniquely unloveable point where the caring classes tacitly collude with the managerial classes to create a mirage of both caring and competence.
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On May 17, German media released a secret video showing the head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party — which was a core part of Kurz's ruling coalition — trying to collude with a supposed Russian national to influence the 2017 Austrian elections.
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Amid repeated denials of collusion with Russia, the president freewheeled on his relationship with the media, trade with China, health care, still no collusion with Russia, the tax bill, North Korea, and how he definitely did not collude with Russia.
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If it could be proven, Mr. Wigdor said, that the two lawyers did collude with one another — especially for Mr. Trump's benefit — then Mr. Avenatti would have "a stronger argument" for asking Mr. Trump what he knew about the deal.
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When workers have few potential employers to choose from, he said, they may have less ability to demand higher pay, and it becomes easier for employers to collude to restrict pay, whether through explicit back-room deals or more subtle signaling.
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If reports based on those leaks are to be believed, Mr. Baker testified that a former senior Justice Department attorney came to him weeks before the 2016 election with information regarding possible Russian efforts to collude with the Trump campaign.
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And yet, the broader problem of inequality along with the various hurdles imposed by bureaucracy can collude to impair how and where children might be placed, leaving the project of foster care another social burden assumed largely by the less affluent.
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On Monday, Kushner met behind closed doors with staffers on the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation, saying in rare public remarks after that he did not collude with Russia during the presidential campaign and had no improper contacts.
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" She added, in an emailed statement, "It's very disappointing, yet not surprising, to learn that you would solicit leaks, and collude with union officials in an effort to distract from the work we are doing to implement the president's agenda.
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Instead, he's become a major wild card, raising questions about whether he'll ultimately conclude there was a concerted effort between Russians and the Trump campaign to collude in the 2016 elections -- or join his GOP colleagues in saying there's nothing there.
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Democrats are calling the emails and meeting, which was also attended by Kushner and Trump's then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the smoking gun in the ongoing Russia investigation, proving the campaign sought to collude with Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election.
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In the meantime, I did some research and learned about spring tides (when the earth, moon and sun align every two weeks) and tidal resonance (when the shape of a bay and the Continental Shelf collude to amplify the tide).
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Schiff, who is not ready to concede that Trump did not collude with Russians, has emerged as a top target for the pro-Trump conservative media machine, which has pivoted seamlessly from demonizing Mueller to attacking the President's political enemies.
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That event kicked off one hell of a political news cycle: health care votes in the Senate, Jared Kushner's "I did not collude" speech from the White House driveway, and President Trump's tweets attacking Jeff Sessions and transgender people in the military.
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The Greek tragedy in Washington became a little more oedipal than usual last week when it was revealed via Senate transcripts that Donald Trump Jr. seems to have been willing to collude with Russia for dirt on Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.
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Hey, if Donald Trump Jr. can tweet out emails showing intent to collude with Russia, why can't Anderson try to use her cooking skills to save a man who is convicted of rape and hiding out at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London?
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Comey, whose investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server helped lift Trump into the White House, was leading the federal counterintelligence investigation into whether advisers to the President had sought to collude with Russian officials in their efforts to swing the 2016 election.
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"They thought we colluded, but we couldn't even collude with our local offices," President Donald Trump's son-in-law said during an off-the-record meeting at the Capitol Visitor Center on Monday, according to notes obtained by the website Foreign Policy.
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He believed strongly, he says he knows for a fact, obviously, that he did not collude with the Russians, and he thinks this investigation that Mueller is conducting is solely about collusion, and that&aposs how he feels very strongly about that.
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Washington (CNN)White House senior adviser Jared Kushner offered an explanation to congressional interns earlier this week as to why it was not possible for the Trump campaign to collude with Russia during the election: It was too disorganized for such a conspiracy.
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The story that Trump Jr. was offered potential information from the Russian government to aid his father's campaign came after months of staunch denials from members of the Trump campaign that they had been willing to collude with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
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Some trade policy observers believe the end of Mueller's probe — and Barr's letter saying the special counsel concluded that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election — put Trump in a stronger position in talks with China.
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Appearing on Sean Hannity's program last night, the White House adviser held up white pieces of paper "to help the people at home" understand an ongoing controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.'s attempt to collude with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign.
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As always with Trump, the question is whether he is doing what he is doing on purpose or simply because he is absolutely and totally fixated on the idea that he did not collude with the Russian government during the 2016 election.
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Though only 13 percent of the voters believe that members of the Trump campaign did work with Russians for campaign help, 77 percent of the Trump voters said they think Trump should stay in office even if the campaign did collude with Russia.
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"I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign," the former New York City mayor said on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time," before adding that he has only said Trump did not collude with the Russians.
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It also might be, at this point, the best defense Trump and his team have when it comes to charges of collusion -- they might have been being worked by skilled Russian operatives but they were totally clueless about it and, therefore, didn't collude.
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Do you have any concern that the NCAA will point to your league, even if it is a relatively small startup, and say, "See, college-age football players have choice, we're not an effective monopoly, we should be allowed to continue to collude"?
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Cohen has knowledge of certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election.
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The investigation closed last year, finding insufficient evidence of a conspiracy by the Trump campaign to collude with Russia in 2016 but declining to make a prosecutorial decision as to whether the president obstructed justice by trying to hinder subsequent probes into collusion.
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He has been adamant that his campaign did not collude with anyone, including other segments of his campaign to get out the vote in certain states," Gowdy said, adding later "If you have nothing to hide, sit down ... tell him what you know.
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Mr. O'Rourke, asked if he supported impeaching Mr. Trump, said he believed the president and his 2016 campaign "at least sought to collude with the Russian government to undermine our democracy" and that Mr. Trump "sought to obstruct justice" once in office.
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So while the report did not establish conspiracy or coordination, it does not make a determination on "collusion" — and in fact, it strongly suggests that there was at least an attempt to collude by Trump's campaign and agents of the Russian government.
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"So if Trump did not collude with Russia, then why is he so subservient to Vladimir Putin?" asked Hassan Ali, a 30-year-old nursing student as he ate an early dinner at a Middle Eastern eatery in an area home to many Muslim-Americans.
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Uber responds: "This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings' meant to entrap drivers."
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It's of course possible, if not entirely likely, that Trump's inner circle and Russians close to the Kremlin didn't collude during the campaign — that there was a lot of interaction, but no real plan to work together to help get Trump into the White House.
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" Positive outcome Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria Limited, through its spokesperson, Precious Okolobo said in an email to CNN: "SPDC did not collude with the authorities to suppress community unrest and in no way encouraged or advocated any act of violence in Nigeria.
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After a gig, they're in their hotel rooms, alone, scrolling through social media wondering, like the rest of us, why the United States is being overrun by politicians who collude with Vladimir Putin, think people can pray the gay away, and deny climate change.
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Minutes before they started, though, Jared Kushner -- President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser -- stepped to the microphones outside the White House to say he'd just told Senate intelligence committee staff that he did not collude with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
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"This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service—whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings' meant to entrap drivers," a spokesperson said.
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The Republican report details the major revelations of the past year over connections between Trump's team and Russia, from the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting to contacts with WikiLeaks and meetings with Russians, repeatedly clearing Trump's associates of trying to collude in the election.
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House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.) drilled into Mueller with specific questions as to whether his report established that Trump did not collude with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, leaving Mueller tripping over words at times.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion that U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia in the 2016 election is a serious blow to Democrats who had hoped Mueller's report would boost their own wide-ranging probes into Trump's business dealings.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE — Rosneft oil executive Igor Sechin and senior government official Igor Divyekin — as part of the effort to collude with the Trump campaign, as Steele reported.
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The special counsel is examining three core issues: Did Russia attack the 2016 elections to aid Mr. Trump; did Mr. Trump or members of his campaign collude with the Russians to do so; and did Mr. Trump or others obstruct the investigation of these matters?
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Preoccupied with defending the legitimacy of the 2016 results, Mr. Trump repeatedly insists not only that his campaign did not collude with Moscow, but also that Russia's effort to torque that election was either "a made-up story" or had no impact on the outcome.
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"Let me be very clear: I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the campaign who did so," Kushner said, speaking to reporters at the White House after a closed-door conversation with the Senate Intelligence Committee Monday morning.
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The full thread — posted by Trump Jr. himself in two tweets in an effort to preempt a story by the New York Times' Jo Becker, Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo — makes indisputably clear that Trump Jr. was trying to collude with the Russian government.
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The 25.4% overall in the new poll saying the President has been exonerated is about the same as the 42% who said in a CNN poll earlier this year that Trump's campaign did not collude with the Russian government to help get Trump elected.
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Maleek Washington and Yusha-Marie Sorzano, borrowing from the Lindy Hop, veer between explosive and tender; Mr. Washington and Timothy Edwards collude like exuberant brothers; Beatrice Capote and Juel D. Lane prop up and protect each other; Catherine Foster revels in her own power.
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Brennan, who led the CIA for most of President Obama's second term, said that just like Russian government denials that they did not interfere in the 2016 US election are "hogwash," Trump's claims that he and his associates didn't collude with Russia aren't credible.
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A lack of competition depresses interest in voting, and where incompetent election administration and Democratic dominance converge is that the city's Democratic political machines are happy to collude with their Republican counterparts to run the Board of Elections with preference for patronage and power over all else.
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Don Jr. admits he was willing to collude with Russia to take down Hillary Clinton In one exchange with the Senate panel, Donald Trump Jr. admits that he took the meeting at Trump Tower with Kremlin-aligned Russians in order to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
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Goldstone set up a meeting at New York City's Trump Tower on June 9 between a Russian lawyer and members of the Trump campaign, including Trump Jr., in what now should go down as the event that proved the Trump team sought to collude with Moscow.
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" After detailing the timeline, process, background, and his related thoughts about the circumstances of the meeting and its aftermath, Trump Jr. reiterated his opening point: "As is clear from the above, I did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did.
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Trump's eldest son cast his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year as simply an opportunity to learn about Hillary Clinton's "fitness, character or qualifications," insisting Thursday to Senate investigators behind closed doors that he did not collude with Russia to hurt her campaign against his father.
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The supporters of the Identitarian movement, which says it wants to preserve Europe's identity, have rented a ship to take them to international waters off the Libyan coast so they can monitor humanitarian rescuers, who they say collude with people smugglers who cram migrants onto dangerous boats.
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"This program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings' meant to entrap drivers," Uber said in a statement.
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" Today, he brushed away the suspicion that this meeting could show the Trump campaign sought to collude with Russia: "As much as some have made of my using the phrase 'I love it,' it was simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob's gesture.
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Sanders' statement comes at the beginning of what will almost certainly be a victory lap for the White House, the president's allies and, of course, Trump himself – who has often claimed that he did not collude with Russian operatives and that he did not obstruct justice.
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It was and is perhaps the most infamous single moment in pro wrestling history, nearly 20 years later, and poor, betrayed Hart was there at the center, watching his real-life enemy and the man he considered a second father collude to strip him of his dignity.
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The eldest son of President Donald Trump said in a prepared statement that nothing came of the meeting at Trump Tower and that he did not collude with the Russian government campaign meddling operation, according to the Times, which obtained a copy of Trump Jr.'s statement.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Justice Department is set to announce a strike force aimed at identifying and prosecuting companies that fix prices or collude to push up the cost of the billions of dollars worth of U.S. government purchases, according to a Justice Department official.
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Whitaker, who as acting attorney general oversees the Mueller investigation, has written opinion pieces and appeared on cable news to advocate for curbing the scope of the Mueller investigation, suggest the attorney general stifle funding for the probe and assert Trump did not collude with Russia.
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King told AM 970's "The Answer" host John Catsimatidis that he believed there was "no legal basis" for the Justice Department under President Obama to begin an investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign were attempting to collude with Russia during the 85033 election.
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Moreover, the practice opens the door for government agencies to collude with sympathetic outside advocacy organizations to intervene when the agency faces litigation — essentially outsourcing the government's obligation to defend its own laws to ideologically aligned private actors, which is a failure of transparency and accountability.
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Celebrating the holiday at the White House instead of his Palm Beach estate, Trump used a phone call session with American troops to advance his case for a border wall, his isolationist foreign policy views and his insistence that his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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The White House letter was transmitted to Barr a day after the release of the Mueller report, in which the special counsel determined that Trump did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign but pointedly did not say whether the president committed obstruction of justice.
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"We need to understand that the powerful collude within the political economy, and to find the right spot and hammer on it relentlessly," Mr. Chung, the 26-year-old former student leader, said in a statement that was translated from Chinese by Hong Kong Free Press.
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How Trump will spin the outcome It must have come as a huge relief for the President that no one in his immediate family was indicted and Mueller did not lay charges on the question of conspiracy to collude with Russia to interfere in the election.
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"Companies that collude and fix prices for generic drugs in order to pad their profits must be held accountable for the very real harm they inflict on New Yorkers' ability to pay for life-saving medications," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said under oath Wednesday that he had never traveled to Prague to collude with Russian officials in 2016, denying a key claim of the infamous "dossier" that alleged a conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin.
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Manafort has agreed to fully cooperate, and so could potentially tell us whether the official story about the meeting is true — or whether it's a cover for a much more significant interaction, one that might prove the Trump campaign did in fact collude with the Russians.
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Cohen has been in the spotlight of the Trump–Russia investigation since January 2017, when BuzzFeed News published a dossier that was circulating at the highest levels of the federal government and that alleged Cohen helped the Trump campaign collude with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
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Giuliani's new talking point is also at odds with what he said last July, when he claimed that "when I say the Trump campaign [did not collude], I mean the upper levels of the Trump campaign … top 4 or 5 people" — a group that presumably would have included Manafort.
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Other aspects of the GND, such as its pro-union provisions, have nothing to do with the "green" component of the GND, but they hearken back to the New Deal of the 1930s, when many manufacturing industries agreed to substantially raise wages provided that they were permitted to collude.
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These disciples, instead of calling for an "Islamic holocaust," can argue that rootedness in one's homeland matters, and that immigration, miscegenation, and the homogenizing forces of neoliberal market economies collude to obliterate identities that have taken shape over hundreds of years—just as relentless development has decimated the environment.
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There may be an open question as to whether the president, then the candidate, sought to collude with the Russian government in 2016," O'Rourke told the audience, before explaining that Trump's defense of Russia during a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin earlier this year was "collusion in action.
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"There are non-ideological, nonpolitical debates that are evidentiary in nature — scandals like Benghazi or is Obama really a U.S. citizen or did Trump collude with the Russians — that don't have an ideological component to them, it is just evidentiary," Greenwald, co-founding editor at The Intercept, told Hill.
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Given Mr. Manafort's history of working with Russian oligarchs and his close ties to Roger Stone, an informal Trump adviser, Mr. Manafort was well-placed to know about any attempts by the campaign or its allies to collude with Russian operatives and others engaged in illegal election interference.
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" The former Trump campaign official added that he had "nothing to hide, and what I want to do is make sure that if anybody did collude or cooperate to try to impact the outcome of a US election, those people spend the rest of their lives in jail.
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This is all the more interesting since Thursday, when the Wall Street Journal reported that a Republican operative who claimed to be working on behalf of Flynn was asking around for stolen Clinton emails during the campaign — which smells a little like a plot to collude with Russian hackers.
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"This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service—whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings' meant to entrap drivers," Uber said in a statement, according to Bloomberg.
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"It's beyond a shadow of a doubt to me that, if there was not collusion, there was at least the effort to collude with a foreign power, beyond the shadow of a doubt that if there was not obstruction of justice, there certainly was the effort to obstruct justice," O'Rourke responded.
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Here are key takeaways from Wednesday's Trump Tower document dump: Trump's team was willing to collude Democrats, still hoping for a smoking gun on collusion, will rejoice at the revelations that Trump's team was willing to take dirt from the Russians, and were angry when the goods never came through.
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A look at the last year and what may lie ahead: There's no doubt Mueller's investigation is far-reaching, but at its core, prosecutors have remained focused on two central questions: Did the Trump campaign collude with the Kremlin to tip the 2016 presidential election in the Republican candidate's favor?
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"The prime minister is not going to comment on the discussions held with President Trump in private, but I can give him the assurance that of course neither the prime minister... or any member of this government would collude in the way that he described," Raab told the House of Commons.
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"You're saying constantly there was no effort to collude with the Russians in any way, shape or form, and suddenly, you have your son, your campaign manager, and your senior adviser all in a meeting with Russians who have promised to bring you dirt," said CNN's chief political analyst Gloria Borger.
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" Lewandowski insisted that he "didn't collude or cooperate or coordinate with any Russian, Russian agency, Russian government or anybody else, to try and impact this election" and said that he'd "be happy to come out and set the record straight about my lack of involvement with any type of foreign entity.
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What Uber says: A company spokesperson said last week that the Greyball software "denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings' meant to entrap drivers."
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"This week we saw cold hard evidence of the Trump campaign, indeed the Trump family, eagerly intending to collude, possibly, with Russia, a hostile foreign power, to influence American elections," Pelosi said, referring to emails released this week by Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Doina Chiacu
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Due to his unique ties to both the Trump campaign and the Trump White House, Flynn is particularly well-suited to answer the two central questions in the Mueller probe: Did the Trump campaign knowingly collude with Russia, and did Trump obstruct justice by trying to limit or derail the FBI's investigation?
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"This week we saw cold hard evidence of the Trump campaign, indeed the Trump family, eagerly intending to collude, possibly, with Russia, a hostile foreign power, to influence American elections," Pelosi said, referring to emails released this week by Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Doina Chiacu
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To Democrats, Monday's indictment of Trump's former campaign chairman and the guilty plea of a foreign policy adviser who was offered "dirt" from the Russians on then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shows evidence of at least an intent to collude, and the developments provide the congressional probes new avenues to explore.
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On one hand, the association will tell anyone who will listen—most notably, federal judges overseeing antitrust lawsuits—that it's perfectly legal and acceptable for schools to collude and limit player compensation to scholarships and small cost-of-attendance stipends, because athletes are students and amateurs and not professionals and blah blah blah.
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But in outlining the previous scenario I've conceded that people around Trump, including his own family members, did show a willingness to collude with dubious figures — and this concession alone means I can't go along with Trump apologists and anti-anti-Trumpers who insist that collusion theories don't have any evidence behind them.
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If Mueller's report reveals a willingness by Trump to collude with Russia or contains evidence of direct coordination involving the Republican president, such findings could be the starting gun for the Democratic-led House of Representatives to launch the impeachment process set out in the U.S. Constitution to remove a president from office.
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Crossing over the highway, weaving through the masses of housing and the still-sleeping suburbs, I sensed it rising behind the low walls and privet hedges on the outskirts of town like a great wave — that strange space beyond the streetlights; the tangled, messy border where human and nature collide and collude. Edgeland.
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For Fraser, the amount was symbolic, which is why she will never disclose it; the piece was about the desires and fantasies that drive artists, patrons and dealers to collude in a market that reduces art to a transaction and a meditation on the experience of selling intimate parts of one's self.
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If we, as a country, knew a year ago what's now understood to be an avalanche of well-reported facts, published emails and legal documentation, the behavior of the president's family and associates would have crossed any reasonable line of what might be meant by an attempt to collude with the Kremlin.
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That defense of Trump Jr.'s meeting — conflating contacts with foreign governments and a clear attempt to collude with a hostile foreign power to affect the outcome of an election — demonstrates that Fox News is willing to normalize even an attack on a basic democratic norm in order to defend the Trump administration.
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The media won't let this go, the public won't let this go, and if the Trump administration insists that it did not collude with Russia to affect the election outcome, it too will not want to let this go until the truth has been brought thoroughly into the light and the American public reassured.
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John McCain's return to Washington, here's how Trump's tweets line up with this morning's episode of "Fox & Friends": "Fox & Friends" aired both Kushner's statement at the White House Monday, where he said he didn't collude with Russia, as well as Lara Trump's Monday night appearance on "The Story" where she commended Kushner for his transparency.
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The company provided TechCrunch and the NYT a statement, which reads as follows: This program denies ride requests to users who are violating our terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret 'stings' meant to entrap drivers.
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Just ask Ted Cruz, by whose strange and self-serving logic it is "the will of the people" (his actual words) that he and John Kasich collude to prevent Trump from amassing a majority of delegates so that some runner-up with less demonstrable support can leapfrog past him to become the Republican presidential nominee.
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Sen. Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) on Sunday refuted President Trump's claim earlier in the week that it's "commonly agreed" he didn't collude with Russia.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE claimed the latest indictment proves his campaign did not collude with Russia.
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" The suit contends that because of the editorial, Trump's campaign has been forced "and will continue to force" its operatives to "expend funds on corrective advertisements and to otherwise publicize the fact that the campaign did not collude with, have a deal with, or have a 'quid pro quo' with Russia regarding the 2016 election.
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After all, there is growing evidence that members of the Trump inner circle did indeed collude with Russia during the election; meanwhile, Trump's statements and tweets strongly suggest that he's willing both to abuse his pardon power and to fire Robert Mueller, provoking a constitutional crisis, rather than allow investigation into this scandal to proceed.
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As for Russian collusion, Mr Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said his client is eager to tell prosecutors what he knows—including whether Mr Trump had advance knowledge that Russians would hack into Democratic officials' e-mails and about ���the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election.
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A memo that Cohen's attorneys sent with a letter Thursday to top Democrats in Congress details what Cohen has told special counsel Robert Mueller's team and the House Intelligence Committee about circumstantial evidence that the attorneys say suggests Trump was involved in or knew about a criminal conspiracy to collude with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
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"I could also see the Mueller team having a whole lot of investigative terrain to cover," said Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. The president The pinnacle question surrounding the investigation is what it ultimately reveals about the president: Was Trump involved in any effort to collude with the Russian government?
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It is a $2100 billion-a-year industry in New York, according to the Building Congress, a trade group, and like much of the construction world, it is vulnerable to abuse, as companies can unknowingly overpay for services when the general contractor or construction managers collude with subcontractors to rig bids, inflate bills and pocket the proceeds.
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Mueller has not yet alleged a conspiracy to collude with Russians or detailed what he learned about the other key issue he investigated: whether the President obstructed justice, either by pressuring then-FBI Director James Comey in 2017 to go easy on Flynn or by later firing Comey -- which is what prompted Mueller's appointment in the first place.
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In the QAnon reality, Trump only pretended to collude with Russia in order to create a pretext for the hiring of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, who is actually working with Trump to take down an inconceivably evil and powerful network of coup-plotters and child sex traffickers that includes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros.
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President Trump on Friday morning claimed it's "commonly agreed" he didn't collude with Russia during the 2016 election, instead accusing Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE of working with the Kremlin.
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Mark Warner of Virginia said Wednesday that investigators are under pressure from both the far right — which insists that the federal inquiries into President Trump's relationship with Russia are a mere "witch hunt" — and the far left — which is eager to jump to conclude that Trump and his associates did collude with Russia during the 2016 election.
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The discovery of an email thread proving the Trump campaign's eagerness to collude with the Russian government to beat Hillary Clinton has served to underscore what you might call first-order lies that President Donald Trump and his top aides have told over the past year—about meetings with Russians, collusion with Russia, and even, in the past days, about the meeting itself.
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" He argued that a recently revealed meeting in the summer of 2016 between Donald Trump Jr. and an emissary for two Arab princes only muddies the waters of a possible Russia-Trump partnership, adding, "One could go mad trying to prove that Donald Trump Jr. tried to collude with the Russians or the Saudis or the Emiratis, as opposed to being a dunce.
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Kushner has repeatedly emphasized that he "did not collude" with the Russian government or any other government, and that a meeting he attended with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer was not improper, despite the meeting being set up on the premise that the attorney had damaging information about Hillary Clinton, as part of the Russian government's support for Trump's presidential campaign.
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Donald Trump Jr. found himself in a potentially bottomless pool of shit on Tuesday after he published a series of emails (obtained beforehand by The New York Times) that show he sought to collude with a Russian government effort to help his dad win the White House, and yet the president's son is far from the most interesting character at the center of this story.
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The particular conspiracy theory outlined in this book holds that President Donald Trump pretended to collude with Russia precisely to ensure that he would be investigated, which would give him a chance to secretly collaborate with special prosecutor Robert Mueller to investigate and finally arrest former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who belongs to a global satanic cult of pedophiles with Barack Obama and George Soros.
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Even if the Trump campaign didn't collude directly with Russia (and there is no smoking-gun evidence yet indicating that it did), a Mueller firing or a Kushner pardon would make Trump look guilty, galvanize the opposition, take center stage in the media for weeks if not months, and put Republicans in an even more precarious political position than the one they find themselves in.
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Cohen "is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows, not just about the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American Democracy system in the 2016 election, ... but also knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on," Davis told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
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Reactions to the charges facing against Mr. Manfort and his longtime associate Rick Gates varied: Some lauded the move by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and encouraged him to push forward in his investigation; a few Trump supporters questioned the president's judgment over hiring Mr. Manafort; and others saw the indictments as proof that the Trump campaign did not collude with the Russian government.
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After falsely claiming total exoneration, Trump used Barr's letter to go on the attack against some of his most prominent Democratic critics — including the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who went viral earlier in the day when he responded to a Republican effort to compel him to resign during a hearing by reciting the major pieces of evidence suggesting the Trump campaign did in fact collude with Russia.
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In the 1960s, a bucktoothed Mickey Rooney offensively played the role of Japanese caricature I.Y. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's, to cite just one example, and by the 1970s, postcolonial and literary theorist Edward Said began discussing cultural imperialism, connecting it to the way the mainstream media, popular culture, and Hollywood collude to construct and manipulate the image of nonwhites, particularly Arabs, often relying exclusively on negative stereotypes and generalizations.
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The two congressmen have also pointed to special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's conclusion that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia in 2016, arguing the conclusion is evidence that House Democrats are simply searching for something to bring down the president.
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Instead, Trump asserted that he did not collude with Russia in the election, recounted his victory over Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and called the special counsel investigation "ridiculous" and a source of tension between the two countries.
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Donald Trump, and those who apparently see lying on his behalf as a sacred duty, are desperate to demonstrate: • That his campaign did not "collude" with Russia • That Americans don't care about Russia's efforts to influence our election • That the Russians had no impact on the outcome of our election The first of these is largely irrelevant, the second is demonstrably false and the third can never be determined.
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Despite claims that Kushner was unaware of the meeting's purpose before it took place, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding clarity about why he and other top campaign officials agreed to meet with an individual tied to a hostile nation -- especially under the pretext of receiving potentially damaging information about a political opponent following previous blanket denials from Trump associates about a willingness to collude with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
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" In the further left-leaning Boston Review, Judith Levine also saw the symptoms of a "looming sex panic," arguing that in their eagerness to see sexual abusers punished, #MeToo's supporters have forgotten that the criminal justice system is already too punitive by half: "the more we entrust the state to mete out justice for sexual infractions, including harassment," she wrote, "the more we collude in the manner in which it administers 'justice.
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"The emails are the end of the idea pushed by the administration and the president that there is absolutely no evidence of intent to coordinate or collude," Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.
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Cohen "is happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows, not just about the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election … but also, knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on," Davis said during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Tuesday night.
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The White House on Friday said the indictment of 12 Russians for hacking Democratic officials during the 2016 election is "consistent" with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's claim his campaign did not collude with Moscow's election meddling.
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The president's latest comments about the Russia probe come several days after Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia MORE, who serves as a senior adviser to Trump and is also his son-in-law, gave a rare public statement in which he said he did not collude with Russia.
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Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's report found that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE didn't personally conspire or collude — a major vindication for Trump.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said Monday in remarks at the White House that all of his actions in the 2016 campaign were proper and that he did not collude with Russia during the presidential campaign.
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Huckabee, a former GOP presidential candidate and the father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has long been a staunch Trump supporter, most recently taking to the airwaves and Twitter to tout special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's conclusion that the president did not collude with Russia during the campaign.
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Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel—[not just] the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election which the Trump Tower meeting was all about but also knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, said Monday he did not collude with Moscow in the 2016 presidential campaign, delivering a pair of statements that underlined the mounting pressure on the White House over Russia.
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Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows—not just about the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election, which the Trump Tower meeting was all about, but also knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on.
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We recently learned that the FBI's initial justification for opening the Trump-Russia collusion case — the belief that another campaign aide, George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosFlynn, Papadopoulos to speak at event preparing 'social media warriors' for 'digital civil war' Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference Mueller hearings should lead Democrats to be shocked at abuse of justice system MORE, might have colluded with Moscow — quickly fell apart when Papadopoulos told an FBI informant he didn't collude and would consider such activity treasonous.
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Kushner repeatedly makes the case in the document that he discussed nothing improper during those meetings, which include two encounters with the Russian ambassador in Washington, a meeting with the head of a Russian state-owned bank and the June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and others that was set up by Kushner's brother-in-law, Donald Trump Jr. READ: Jared Kushner's statement on Russia "I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner says in the statement.
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On collusion, while Mueller concluded he could not prove without a reasonable doubt that the Trump team conspired to collude with Russia, we did learn that they at least tried: through meetings with Papadopoulos, negotiations to build a luxury hotel in Moscow, and the infamous Trump tower meeting organized by Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpPETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties MORE And on obstruction of justice.
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In the course of Trump's short presidency, these same Republicans have already looked past his self-enrichment; his potentate-like deputization of his children as U.S. emissaries; his firing of FBI Director James Comey, along with other extraordinary efforts to quash or interfere with the federal investigation of his campaign's involvement in Russian efforts to subvert the election on his behalf; evidence that his son, son-in-law, and campaign manager were eager to collude with the Russian government to sabotage Hillary Clinton's campaign; and an impulsive threat to preemptively nuke North Korea.
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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's conclusion that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE did not collude with Russia "good news" for all Americans.
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Kushner confirmed that he had "perhaps" four encounters with Russians during the 2016 campaign and transition in the 11-page statement but insisted that he discussed nothing improper during those meetings, which include two encounters with the Russian ambassador, a meeting with the head of a Russian state-owned bank and the June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and others that was set up by Kushner's brother-in-law, Donald Trump Jr. "I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government," Kushner said in the statement.
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Instead, he asserted that he did not collude with Russia in the election, recounted his victory over Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and called special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation "ridiculous" and a source of tension between the two countries.
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MSNBC host Al Sharpton advised Democrats to "move on and really deal with hard issues" after special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE concluded that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and his campaign associates did not collude or conspire with Russia leading up to the 2016 election.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: --KUSHNER SAYS NO COLLUSION, IMPROPER CONTACTS: President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said Monday in remarks at the White House that all of his actions in the 2016 campaign were proper and that he did not collude with Russia during the presidential campaign.
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Douthat's second theory concedes evidence of Trump functionaries, from family such as Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE to much lower hangers-on, demonstrating a willingness to collude with shadowy figures in exchange for damaging information on his opponent, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Wednesday said special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's final report on the Russia investigation should be made public, expressing confidence it will prove he did not collude with Moscow's effort to interfere in the 2628 election.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE, have claimed that previously known reports about Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties Chris Cuomo: 'I should be better than the guys baiting me' MORE's meeting with a Russian lawyer connected to the Kremlin during the campaign shows "an intent to collude," though Democrats have hesitated to say that they have seen evidence of collusion.
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Africa's competition commission- has been investigating a case of price fixing and market allocation in trading of foreign currency pairs involving rand since april 2015 * South Africa's Competition Commission - has now referred case to tribunal for prosecution * South Africa's Competition Commission - found that from at least 2007, respondents had a general agreement to collude on prices for bids, offers and bid-offer spreads for spot trades in relation to currency trading involving us dollar / rand currency pair * South Africa's Competition Commission - found that respondents manipulated price of bids and offers through agreements to refrain from trading and creating fictitious bids and offers at particular times * South Africa's Competition Commission - commission is seeking an order from tribunal declaring that respondents have contravene competition act * South Africa's Competition Commission - is seeking an order declaring that banks are liable for payment of an administrative penalty equal to 10% of their annual turnover.
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Schiff, who has been sharply critical of panel Chairman Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE (R-Calif.) and his handing of the probe, pointed to meetings between Kremlin-linked officials and former Trump associates including Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE, Richard Gates and George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosFlynn, Papadopoulos to speak at event preparing 'social media warriors' for 'digital civil war' Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference Mueller hearings should lead Democrats to be shocked at abuse of justice system MORE as evidence of a broader scheme to collude with Russia's government.
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