FBI Director James Comey heads to Capitol Hill today to testify on the Russian hacking conspiracy, but President Donald Trump has already come out swinging.
Trump’s tweets match what The Horn News first reported in December — the story of Russian hackers conspiring with the Trump campaign was very fake news.
Despite the clear evidence, however, the liberal media hasn’t let up.
That could finally end today.
The media’s false claims that Trump has Russian ties was first debunked when it was revealed that Russian hackers also targeted the Republican National Committee, and that Hillary Clinton pal Tony Podesta, brother of her campaign manager John Podesta, was pocketing $170,000 in cash payments for work done on behalf of Russian bank Sberbank in 2016.
But facts involving the Russian ties of a presidential race clearly don’t matter to the mainstream media.
Trump took to Twitter Monday reiterating these reports, accusing Democrats of making up allegations that Russia interfered in last year’s election, and recognizing the Clinton campaign’s ties to the Kremlin.
The Democrats made up and pushed the Russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. Big advantage in Electoral College & lost!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2017
What about all of the contact with the Clinton campaign and the Russians? Also, is it true that the DNC would not let the FBI in to look?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2017
His tweets came just hours before a hearing in which FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers planned to testify on allegations of Russian hacking and whether there were any connections between Moscow and Trump’s campaign.
Trump also tweeted: “The real story that Congress, the FBI and others should be looking into is the leaking of Classified information. Must find leaker now!”
Monday’s hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, one of several congressional panels probing allegations of Russian meddling, could allow for the greatest public accounting to date of investigations that have shadowed the Trump administration in its first two months.
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia meddled in the campaign to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. The FBI has also been investigating ties between Russia and Trump advisers and associates during the campaign.
Rep. Devin Nunes, the California Republican who chairs the committee, said: “For the first time the American people, and all the political parties now, are paying attention to the threat that Russia poses.”
“We know that the Russians were trying to get involved in our campaign, like they have for many decades. They’re also trying to get involved in campaigns around the globe and over in Europe,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”
The Senate Intelligence Committee has scheduled a similar hearing for later in the month.
It is not clear how much new information will emerge Monday, and the hearing’s open setting unquestionably puts Comey in a difficult situation if he’s asked to discuss an ongoing investigation tied to the campaign of the president.
At a hearing in January, Comey refused to confirm or deny the existence of any investigation exploring possible connections between Trump associates and Russia, consistent with the FBI’s longstanding policy of not publicly discussing its work. His appearances on Capitol Hill since then have occurred in classified settings, often with small groups of lawmakers, and he has made no public statements connected to the Trump campaign or Russia.
-The Horn News editorial and The Associated Press contributed to this article.