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Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who has repeatedly called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, has finally admitted there is no proof of allegations by Democrats of collusion between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign.
“I think that if we do the investigations that we will find the connections and I do think that impeachment will be necessary,” Waters said in March.
But so far, those connections have not surfaced, she admitted in a podcast by The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capeheart.
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“I’ve got to ask you, because you leveled a whole lot of accusations out there about collusion and hacking and all of that. Have you seen anything, either through the intelligence briefings, anything to back up any of the accusations that you’ve made?” Capehart asked.
“First of all, don’t forget that all of our intelligence agencies say, yes, they have the documentation that (the Russians) did the hacking on the DNC and on some of us,” she replied.
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“But the collusion, though?” he asked.
“No, we have not,” said Waters, who then tried to insinuate that there must be something to find.
“That’s why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts,” Waters said. “What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened. Why is it there are so many people around him are connected to oil?”
Although Democrats are claiming Tuesday’s stunning decision by Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey was related to the FBI’s probe of Russian connections to the Trump campaign, proof of that connection has been elusive.
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On Monday, before the Comey storm broke, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., found himself in the predicament of being asked for proof when he had none.
“I have seen evidence, both on the unclassified and classified side, of collusion,” Swalwell told CNN.
But after his repetition of media accounts of activities conducted by individuals who supported Trump, CNN’s John Berman said it all amounted to very little.
“These all may be questionable activity, some of them may actually be in violation of the law, but what you have said on CNN is you have seen evidence of collusion between Trump campaign associates and the Russians,” he said.
“That’s not evidence of collusion,” Berman shot back. “That’s evidence, again, of possible wrongdoing, it’s evidence of sketchy activities, but not, as far as I can tell, that they were actually working together on the campaign.”
