Donald Trump campaign chided for poor judgment

Bloomberg

House Republicans chided both the Trump and Clinton campaigns for poor judgment over their contacts with Russia, even as they dismissed the notion of collusion with Moscow in concluding an investigation riven by bitter partisanship.
While President Donald Trump’s campaign didn’t work directly with Moscow, some of his senior advisers erred by meeting in 2016 with a Russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information on Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to a 243-page report issued by the GOP majority on the House Intelligence Committee. Democrats rejected the report as misleading and refused to sign it.
The report faulted Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee for obscuring their roles in paying for opposition research on Trump from Russian sources via former British spy Christopher Steele.
“The investigation did find poor judgment and ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns,” it said.
“For example, the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between members of the Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer who falsely purported to have damaging information on the Clinton campaign demonstrated poor judgment.”
Trump quickly embraced the report by his allies in the GOP to bolster his assertion that there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.
On Twitter, he wrote: “As I have been saying all along, it is all a big Hoax by the Democrats based on payments and lies.” Trump added that “there never should been” a special counsel appointed.