WASHINGTON President Donald Trump s often-repeated no collusion claim about the help he received from Russia to win the 2016 election was belied once again Tuesday, this time by the bipartisan Senate intelligence committee following a three-year investigation.

Like U.S. intelligence services already concluded in 2017 and special counsel Robert Mueller reported in 2019, the committee found that Russia worked to hurt Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and to help Trump but further found that Trumps campaign chairman Paul Manafort was particularly dangerous to U.S. national security.

Manaforts high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services represented a grave counterintelligence threat, the 966-page report found.

The committee also concluded that Trump confidante Roger Stone who along with Manafort and several others were convicted of felonies in Muellers probe on the orders of Trump and his campaign sought to coordinate with WikiLeaks regarding the release of documents stolen from the Clinton camp. At their direction, Stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the campaign and shared his purported knowledge directly with Trump and senior campaign officials on multiple occasions, the report stated.