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MOSCOW, February 18 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spent too much time on the investigation of "Russian interference" in the US presidential election in 2016 and missed the "signals" of an arrow from Florida that killed 17 people, said US President Donald Trump.

Shooting occurred in a school in the town of Parkland, 60 kilometers north of Miami on Wednesday, 17 people were the victims of the shooting. Soon after the tragedy, the police detained a former student of this school, Nicholas Cruz, born in 1999. Earlier, the lawyer of Cruz said that his client intends to admit the blame in the event that prosecutors will not demand for him the death penalty.

"It's very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals that the shooter sent from the school in Florida, which is unacceptable, they spend too much time trying to prove Russia's secret conspiracy with Trump's (pre-election) campaign. basics and make us proud! ", - said the president in his microblog on Twitter.

In the US Congress there are independent investigations into the "Russian interference" in the presidential elections in the United States, which won Donald Trump. A similar investigation is also conducted by the FBI. In the American media, there are regular reports with reference to unnamed sources about the contacts of members of Trump's election headquarters with Russian officials and businessmen.

Russia has repeatedly refuted accusations of interference in US elections, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called them "absolutely unsubstantiated."

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