Chairman of the Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Devin Nunez urged Washington to "stop hunting for Russian ghosts and start real work". The statement of the congressman leads on Sunday, June 18, the publication Politico. Also, Nunez commented on rumors of a "collusion" between US President Donald Trump and the Russian authorities. "I said: I do not think there was a conspiracy. And what have you done to me? All major publications began to slander me. Why? Because I told the truth about the fact that there was no collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians ", - quotes the edition of Nunez. In March, the head of the intelligence committee said that there was no evidence of collusion between US President Donald Trump's campaign headquarters and Moscow. Nunez added that his body would investigate whether "the Russians [tried to] help Trump and whether his associates were involved".

In early January, a declassified version of the report of the US intelligence services was published where it was alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered to influence the presidential elections in the United States and, in order to achieve Trump's victory, defame the candidate from the Democrats Hillary Clinton. The Kremlin and the White House consistently deny these accusations.

Original article: In the US Congress called to stop "hunting for Russian ghosts".