Original Blog Entry: No ties found w/ Trump and Russia.

emilyg — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 22:44:58 GMT

NYT: No ties found w/ Trump and Russia. Now, who will dare ask about HERS?

Amid the reopened FBI investigation into Her emails, The Queen is demanding on Twitter today that Donald Trump 'answer some serious questions about his ties to Russia'.

And, as it also happens today, the NY Times reports:

Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia, October 31, 2016

WASHINGTON For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead which they ultimately came to doubt about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.

Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. snip - Hillary Clinton's supporters, angry over what they regard as a lack of scrutiny of Mr. Trump by law enforcement officials, pushed for these investigations.

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Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, responded angrily on Sunday with a letter accusing the F.B.I. of not being forthcoming about Mr. Trump's alleged ties with Moscow.

It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers, and the Russian government a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity, Mr. Reid wrote. The public has a right to know this information.

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