By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage dismissed reports that he was a “person of interest” in an FBI investigation over possible collusion between Russian and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Farage also said the FBI has not contacted him.
“No, of course they haven’t,” Farage, the former leader of Britain’s UK Independence Party, told BBC radio on Saturday when he was asked if the FBI had been in touch with him. “I mean this is just hysteria.”
The initial report, published by the Guardian on Thursday, indicated Farage was not a suspect, but he was “right in the middle of the relationship being looked at.” The newspaper reported that Farage had “raised the interest” of the FBI because of his ties to Trump and Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks.
Farage said he only met Assange once and questioned the accuracy of the FBI source in the story.
