WASHINGTON _ Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released their hotly contested report on Russian interference in the presidential election, concluding there was no conspiracy between President Donald Trump or his allies and Moscow.
"While the Committee found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government, the investigation did find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns," the report said.
Among those bad decisions, Republicans said, was the meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016, in which Donald Trump Jr. hosted a Russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. No information was provided, Trump Jr. later said.
Republicans also put some blame on Clinton's team for secretly paying "for opposition research on Trump obtained from Russian sources," research that was compiled by a former British spy into the notorious dossier of allegations against Trump.
Democrats have said the conclusions represent a partisan attempt to defend Trump and his allies, and they've pledged to continue what they called an incomplete investigation into the issue.
Trump praised the report and called for an end to the Russia investigation being led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
