Count ’em: 4 Times

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In Attorney General William Barr’s prepared remarks, he emphasized that there was “no collusion” four separate times:

First:

Put another way, the Special Counsel found no “collusion” by any Americans in the IRA’s illegal activity.

Second:

In other words, there was no evidence of Trump campaign “collusion” with the Russian government’s hacking.

Third:

After finding no underlying collusion with Russia …

Fourth, referring to President Trump:

Yet, as he said from the beginning, there was in fact no collusion.

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