The six questions Nigel Farage won't answer on Trump and Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/01/the-six-questions-nigel-farage-wont-answer-on-trump-and-russia

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The Guardian has revealed that Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into alleged collusion between Trump associates and Russia.

According to sources familiar with the investigation, Farage is of interest because of his relationships with several individuals. They include President Donald Trump, Trump’s adviser Roger Stone, and the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whom Farage visited in March.

“If you triangulate Russia, WikiLeaks, Assange and Trump associates the person who comes up with the most hits is Nigel Farage,” one source said. Farage has not been accused of wrongdoing and is not a suspect or a target of the US investigation.

On Thursday, Farage dismissed the story as “fake news”. He said he visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in March at the behest of LBC Radio “with a view to conducting an interview”.

He tweeted:

In response to the Guardian article, it has taken me a long time to finish reading because I am laughing so much at this fake news.

And:

I consider it extremely doubtful that I could be a person of interest to the FBI as I have no connections to Russia.

The Guardian put a series of questions to Nigel Farage over several weeks. So far he has declined to answer them.

They include: