Does the latest Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 election prove collusion?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the United States’ 2016 election. Like the fourth volume, released in April 2020, the nearly 1,000-page report supports the conclusion of US intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the interference.

The findings of the bipartisan committee, currently chaired by Republican Senator Marco Rubio, have largely contrasted with statements by President Donald Trump, who has publicly doubted and downplayed Russia’s involvement in election interference efforts. In fact, this volume lays out a “massive intervention campaign waged on behalf of then-candidate Donald Trump by Russians.”

Despite the bipartisan effort behind the report, though, the Republican and Democratic members of the committee have come to different conclusions about the meaning of its findings.

What is in the Senate Intelligence Committee report?

At 952 pages, the final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee report, entitled “Russian Active Measures Campaigns and…