2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Breaking with their House Republican counterparts, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday [7-3-18] that the intelligence community properly concluded in January of last year that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump when Moscow meddled in the 2016 election. The Senate panel released a summary Tuesday of its examination of the intelligence community’s January 2017 assessment, which laid out the case of Russia’s election meddling and concluded that Putin was trying to help Trump win. The Senate report said that the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s intentions were sound, which is at odds with the House Intelligence Committee Republicans’ report that found ‘significant intelligence tradecraft failings’ in the assessment of Putin’s objectives…The unclassified summary released on Tuesday provides details on why the Senate Intelligence Committee agreed with the intelligence community that Russia was trying to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.”
–Jeremy Herb, “Senate panel agrees with intel community that Putin was trying to help Trump,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 3, 2018 3:55 pm