Wyden: ‘No Longer’ Any Question About If Trump Campaign Tried To Collude

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Ore., questions IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about President Donald Trump's tax returns, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. asks a question at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wyden and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kyl., are asking the nation’s top intelligence official to re... FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. asks a question at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wyden and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kyl., are asking the nation’s top intelligence official to release more information about the communications of American citizens swept up in surveillance operations. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) MORE LESS

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Tuesday said there is “no longer a question” as to whether President Donald Trump’s campaign tried to collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election in his favor.

“The highest levels of the Trump campaign walked, eyes open, into a meeting designed to advance the Russian government’s support for Donald Trump,” Wyden said in a statement, citing emails Donald Trump Jr. released on Tuesday morning.

Wyden is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, one of several congressional panels investigating Russian election meddling and any potential collusion by the Trump campaign.

In Trump Jr.’s email exchange, which led up to a June 2016 meeting with Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, Trump family acquaintance Rob Goldstone discussed a “Russian government attorney” with alleged damaging information on Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

“These emails show there is no longer a question of whether this campaign sought to collude with a hostile foreign power to subvert America’s democracy,” Wyden said. “The question is how far the coordination goes. It is now up to elected officials of both parties to stand up and do their duty: protect and defend the Constitution.”

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  1. Well, at least to rationale folks there isn’t…

    Then, there’s the GOP and their sheeple followers…

  2. Republicans defending the Constitution? Fat chance.

  3. No longer and question in the reality based media, anyway. I shudder to think how fox is not-covering this today. Infowars conspiracies? Cancelling all guests to the left of Cruz? Seppoku?

  4. Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

    “…and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Is this how we rid ourselves of rump?

  5. It is now up to elected officials of both parties to stand 
    up and do their duty: protect and defend the Constitution.”
    

    According to EVERY oath of office that I have ever seen or heard …

    The time for this is supposedly …ALWAYS –

    There is no …’ timeline ’ —

    republicans need to be held to account — 2018 ! —

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