2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) still isn’t backing down from his assertations that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the matter found otherwise.
Wallace then pressed Swalwell again on his previous comments, clarifying what the president said during a 2016 news conference following news that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, and was taken aback that Swalwell could “possibly think that was collusion.”
Swalwell responded by doubling down on his claim again, saying that he does not “believe in coincidences with the Russians.”
Swalwell: “The Mueller report lays out that [the Russians] undertook more hacking within hours —”
Wallace: “You think that was an order from Donald Trump? You don’t think that the Russians were probably, in fact, probably already doing it?”
Swalwell: “I don’t believe in coincidences with the Russians.”
This is not the first time Swalwell refused to back down from his claims. – READ MORE