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-- 2017 --
March 10: Trump Adviser [Roger Stone] Admits to Private Communication With Account Linked to Russian Election Hackers
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/roger-stone-admits-twitter-dms-with-guccifer-2-0-alleged-russian-hacker-front-account.html
May 17: President Donald Trump rang in the anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller by slamming the probe into his campaign's ties to Russia during the 2016 election.
"Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History ... and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction," Trump tweeted. "The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-slams-mueller-probe-one-year-anniversary-n874921
June 1: Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party, made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have something else in common:
Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.
“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”
Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.
The aide, George Cottrell, previously ran the UKIP offices as well as Farage’s personal blog. He was arrested by the FBI when Farage and Cottrell came to the US for the Republican Convention. Cottrell was later found guilty of wire fraud for offering to help criminals launder funds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1667871/-Nigel-Farage-joins-other-Trump-associates-as-person-of-interest-in-FBI-investigation
June 22: Two of the nation's top intelligence officials [Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers] told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team and Senate investigators, in separate meetings last week, that President Donald Trump suggested they say publicly there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russians, according to multiple sources.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/intel-chiefs-trump-refute-collusion/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
-- 2018 --
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January 23: Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump in the coming weeks about his decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with his plans.
Mueller’s interest in the events that led Trump to push out Flynn and Comey indicates that his investigation is aggressively scrutinizing possible efforts by the president or others to hamper the special counsel’s probe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-seeks-to-question-trump-about-flynn-and-comey-departures/2018/01/23/e6652db6-0068-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.94b44ffe1a25
January 24: Special counsel Robert Mueller's team wants to question former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon about the firings of national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/robert-mueller-steve-bannon-questioning/index.html
March 3: Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California shared some startling news about the Russia investigation Saturday, claiming there was clear evidence of collusion on Fox News’ “Cavuto Live.”
Nunes said he welcomes more investigators to look into Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court abuses and said he is glad the Inspector General is getting involved.
“We have a media that pretty much refuses to cover this issue at all. We have serious abuses that occurred in the FISA court against the Trump campaign,” Nunes said. “We continue to get facts. We will bring those facts forward as we see them.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/03/devin-nunes-evidence-of-collusion/
May 17: One year of Mueller's special counsel investigation, by the numbers
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/politics/one-year-robert-mueller-russia-investigation-special-counsel/index.html
June 7: ... it's worth pointing out that Clinton deleted emails that her legal team deemed "personal" in 2014, when she was not under investigation. This is obviously different from destroying evidence a special prosecutor has asked for in an investigation. Also, Clinton didn't "acid wash" anything. This is absurd and has been repeatedly debunked, so naturally it featured on Hannity's program ...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a21201808/hannity-trump-russia-destroy-evidence/
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July 13: The Coincidence at the Heart of the Russia Hacking Scandal
A new indictment charges that Russians tried to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on July 27, 2016—the same day that Donald Trump publicly asked them to do so.
“I will tell you this: Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/russia-hacking-trump-mueller/565157/
July 13: Robert Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers
Indictment in Russian meddling probe revealed three days before Trump-Putin summit
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged Russian election meddling, has charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election. Mr Mueller alleged that the 12 Russians stole and leaked emails as part of a Russian government effort to interfere with the election.
https://www.ft.com/content/2909ff62-86b4-11e8-96dd-fa565ec55929
July 13: The 29-page indictment lays out how, months before Americans went to the polls, Russians schemed to break into key Democratic email accounts, including those belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Stolen emails, many politically damaging for Clinton, appeared on WikiLeaks in the campaign's final stretch.
The charges say the Russian defendants, using a persona known as Guccifer 2.0, in August 2016 contacted a person in touch with the Trump campaign to offer help. And they say that on the same day Trump said in a speech, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Russian hackers tried for the first time to break into email accounts used by Clinton's personal office.
https://q13fox.com/2018/07/13/watch-live-rod-rosenstein/
July 13: Mueller indictment appears to make reference to Roger Stone
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Russian military officers in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to make reference to former informal Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone.
The longtime GOP strategist acknowledged to CNN that messages included in the latest indictments match ones that he previously released relating to the hacker Guccifer 2.0, but he denied that he is the person referred to in the indictment “because I wasn't in regular contact with members of the Trump campaign.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/396978-roger-stone-appears-to-be-unnamed-person-in-mueller-indictment
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July 13: Mueller’s New Indictment of the Russian Hackers Is Full of Clues About Connections to Trump World
On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a series of indictments against 12 Russian intelligence operatives for hacking various Democratic Party and state election infrastructure organs in an effort to interfere in the 2016 election. As Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley pointed out, one seemingly noteworthy effort came when the Russians attempted to hack Hillary Clinton’s “personal office” on the same day Donald Trump publicly stated he hoped Russia would hack Clinton’s emails.
This wasn’t the only circumstantial evidence in Friday’s indictment of a connection between the actions of Russian hackers and those of the Trump campaign.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/muellers-indictment-of-russian-hackers-is-full-of-clues-about-trumpworld.html
July 8: What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
July 16: Trump 'treasonous' after siding with Putin on election meddling ... US president under fire after backing Kremlin at joint press conference with Russian leader
“They said they think it’s Russia; I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,” Trump told reporters. “I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/trump-finds-putin-denial-of-election-meddling-powerful
July 16: Donald Trump’s scolding of NATO allies, his digs at Britain’s prime minister, and his dismissal of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election as a “rigged witch hunt” even though he knew Russian intelligence officers were about to be indicted back home for messing with American democracy—all right before meeting with Vladimir Putin in Finland—have revived a long-running narrative: The president of the United States, wittingly or unwittingly, is doing Russia’s bidding.
“I’m not ready to say that our president is a Russian agent, but I have an agent, and he doesn’t do as much for me as Trump does for Russia,” the comedian Stephen Colbert joked. A more serious argument goes that Trump is undermining not just NATO, but the whole post–World War II “Western order: our security relationships, our trade relationships, our special friendships with the U.K., Canada, Germany, and institutions like [the] EU, WTO, [and] UN,” as the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote. “This is Putin’s dream.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-helsinki/565121/
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July 16: Donald Trump is so easily manipulated by a foreign power that he has virtually become Russia's agent
Putin decided to unpack a large bag of juicy currant buns to attract the attention of the American president. Tasty. Putin offered him the opportunity to disown his own intelligence agencies’ claim that the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential elections. Chomp. 'There was no collusion'. Another bun. 'There was zero collusion'. Satisfied burp.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-russia-agent-vladimir-putin-joint-press-conference-helsinki-latest-a8450146.html
July 23: Judicial Watch is seeking documents from the CIA over 2016 communications between former CIA Director John Brennan and then-Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Chris Farrell, the group's director of investigations and research, said Monday that he believes Reid was part of the larger effort to undermine the Trump campaign and create a narrative of collusion with Russia.
... The group wants to know whether Brennan fed information to Reid so that it could be publicized.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/24/judicial-watchs-farrell-former-sen-reid-part-stop-trump-gang-create-collusion-narrative
July 25: Donald Trump postpones summit with Vladimir Putin until new year
The national security adviser, John Bolton, in a statement, cited special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as the reason for the delay.
Bolton said: “The President believes that the next bilateral meeting with President Putin should take place after the Russia witch hunt is over, so we’ve agreed that it will be after the first of the year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/25/trump-putin-visit-delayed-latest-news-john-bolton-russia-statement
July 26: Trump Organization Finance Chief Called to Testify Before Federal Grand Jury
Longtime Trump executive Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed in Michael Cohen probe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-organization-finance-chief-called-to-testify-before-federal-grand-jury-1532622947
July 26: Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump, announced late Thursday that he is now representing three other women who claim they were paid off by the president to stay quiet about alleged affairs.
... payments appeared to have been motivated by “concern about a pregnancy.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-feds-seized-more-than-100-cohen-recordings-involving-trump
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July 27: Cohen claims Trump knew in advance of 2016 Trump Tower meeting
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html
July 27: Michael Cohen's Claim 'Is Not Worth Anything Unless It Can be Corroborated'
His assertion that President Trump knew in advance about his campaign’s June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower won’t, on its own, stand up in court.
Trump denied knowledge of the meeting Friday morning on Twitter, hours after CNN first reported the news. And he’s consistently denied any involvement with the Russian government’s concerted effort to elect him president, as described by American intelligence agencies in a postelection report. If Cohen’s statements about the Trump Tower meeting can be corroborated, they would not only constitute proof of Trump’s awareness of an effort to aid a Russian attack on the election, but they would also provide strong evidence of an intent to obstruct justice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/michael-cohen-trump-tower-meeting/566246/
July 30: Giuliani says he's not sure collusion is a crime despite Mueller investigation
But legal experts have repeatedly said that anyone found collaborating with Russia on the 2016 election could be charged with other crimes, such as conspiracy -- and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is ongoing.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/politics/rudy-giuliani-collusion-crime-cnntv/index.html
August 21: Cohen faces ‘lock him up’ chant leaving courthouse after pleading guilty to federal charges
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402924-people-chant-lock-him-up-at-cohen-after-pleading-guilty-to-eight
August 24: Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg given immunity by prosecutors to testify
Prosecutors say Weisselberg told another executive to designate a reimbursement to Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush-money payment as "legal expenses."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/trump-org-cfo-allen-weisselberg-given-immunity-prosecutors-testify-n903566
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August 27: Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's attorney, said the President's lawyers have not heard back from special counsel Robert Mueller's office in nearly three weeks.
"I figured we wouldn't hear until after the Manafort trial, but we (still) haven't," Giuliani said.
He said Mueller's office has told them it is "still studying" the latest letter from Trump's team, which Giuliani said was only five to six pages.
"I have to figure they're planning something," Giuliani said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/giulaini-mueller-trump/index.html
September 1: The FBI and Department of Justice partnered on a secret program aimed at flipping Russian oligarchs with potentially damaging information about the Trump campaign's alleged involvement with the Kremlin, according to a New York Times report Saturday.
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr worked with the FBI to attempt to turn one of those oligarchs, Oleg V. Deripaska, who is close to the Russian government.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bruce-ohr-fbi-together-attempted-to-flip-russian-oligarchs-to-gather-information-on-trump-campaign-report
September 1: Citing current and former officials and associates of Deripaska, the Times reported that investigators were hoping for information from Deripaska on Russian organized crime during a September 2015 meeting and, in a meeting a year later, on possible Russian aid to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump has often criticized the special counsel probe as a "witch hunt" and has repeatedly attacked Ohr and Steele.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/politics/bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-efforts-flip-russian-oligarch/index.html
September 2: Convicted former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has publicly contradicted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' sworn testimony to Congress, saying both Sessions and Donald Trump apparently supported his proposal that Trump meet with Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign, according to a court filing late Friday night.
"While some in the room rebuffed George's offer, Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Mr. Sessions who appeared to like the idea and stated that the campaign should look into it. George's giddiness over Mr. Trump's recognition was prominent during the days that followed," Papadopoulos' lawyers wrote in a court filing Friday. Papadopoulos' legal team said that he has shared with special counsel Robert Mueller his recollections of the March 31, 2016, meeting.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/politics/papadopoulos-sessions-putin-campaign-meeting/index.html
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September 5: Jerome Corsi, a prominent conspiracy theorist with ties to Roger Stone, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury Friday as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, according to Corsi's attorney.
"We are going to be fully cooperative. We have nothing to hide," said David Gray, Corsi's lawyer. "While we believe the focus will be on his communications with Roger Stone, that is an assumption."
Corsi is the latest in a string of Stone associates to be summoned by Mueller's team. Randy Credico, a comedian who's another former associate of Stone's, is also slated to appear before the grand jury Friday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/jerome-corsi-roger-stone-mueller-subpoena/index.html
September 9: Roger Stone Calls On Trump To Fire ‘Insubordinate Hillbilly’ Jeff Sessions
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-stone-calls-on-trump-to-fire-hillbilly-jeff-sessions_us_5b94961fe4b0cf7b0040802e
September 14: Paul Manafort pleads guilty in Mueller probe, will cooperate with prosecutors
Last month, Trump praised Manafort for refusing to cooperate in order to make a deal.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/paul-manafort-pleads-guilty-mueller-probe-n909576
September 15: Paul Manafort knows some of Trump's deepest secrets. And now he works for Mueller.
Analysis: If anyone knows about collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, it's Paul Manafort. That may explain the prosecutors' interest in a plea deal.
The decision by President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman to admit his guilt and cooperate with prosecutors could be a game-changer for special counsel Robert Mueller, while dramatically ratcheting up the pressure on the president.
It wasn’t only Trump critics who were offering that assessment of Paul Manafort's stunning guilty plea Friday, but also some of his most ardent supporters.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/paul-manafort-knows-some-trump-s-deepest-secrets-now-he-n909801
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September 18: Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers
Robert Mueller seems to have built in safeguards to discourage the president from pardoning Manafort.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s plea agreement with Paul Manafort on Friday took unusual and possibly unprecedented steps to undercut President Donald Trump’s ability to pardon his former campaign chairman.
The plea deal Mueller struck with Manafort contains several provisions that appear intended to discourage the former Trump aide from seeking a pardon and to rein in the impact of any pardon Trump might grant.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/18/manafort-deal-pardon-mueller-trump-827898
September 21: Robert Mueller scrutinizing $3.3 million exchanged between planners of Trump Tower meeting
According to documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News, money was being transferred between real estate developer Argas Agalarov, who has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump, and one of his employees Irakly “Ike" Kaveladze.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-scrutinizing-3-3-million-exchanged-between-planners-of-trump-tower-meeting-report
October 9: The past 48 hours in Mueller investigation news, explained
We’ve gotten news on Alfa Bank, Psy-Group, and Peter W. Smith — three long-simmering subplots of the Russia investigation.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/9/17953560/mueller-trump-russia-news-alfa-bank-psy-group
November 7: Robert Mueller scrutinizing $3.3 million exchanged between planners of Trump Tower meeting: Report
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-scrutinizing-3-3-million-exchanged-between-planners-of-trump-tower-meeting-report
November 12: Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-president-trumps-personal-attorney-mysteriously-arrives/story?id=59141826
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November 17: President Donald Trump said Friday he was personally crafting the answers to special counsel Robert Mueller and denied he was agitated by the state of the probe.
"I write the answers. My lawyers don't write answers. I write answers. I was asked a series of questions. I've answered them very easily -- very easily. I'm sure they're tripped up, because you know they like to catch people," Trump told reporters gathered for a bill signing.
He said he hasn't submitted them, but that he's just finished them. CNN has previously reported Trump has met with his lawyers several times this week to go over Mueller's questions.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-written-answers/index.html
November 29: Donald Trump and his aides continued negotiations about a potential Trump Tower project in Moscow well into the 2016 presidential campaign, his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen acknowledged in a guilty plea in a New York federal court on Thursday.
Cohen's acknowledgement on Thursday also means that the negotiations with Russians were taking place the same month as the much-discussed meeting in New York City at which the president's top campaign aides hosted a Russian delegation that had offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29/671864979/trump-moscow-real-estate-talks-continued-into-presidential-run-documents-show?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181129&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
December 14: Michael Cohen On Trump In TV Interview: 'The Man Doesn't Tell The Truth'
Michael Cohen, President Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, says his former boss knew it was wrong to order hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to two women who allege they had affairs with Trump --but he directed Cohen to do it anyway to help his election chances.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/676672787/cohen-on-trump-the-man-doesn-t-tell-the-truth
December 18: Federal Judge Delays Michael Flynn Sentencing In Case Of Lying To Feds
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said he has significant outstanding questions about the case, including how the government's Russia investigation was impeded and the material impact of Flynn's lies on the special counsel's inquiry.
Flynn had spent more than a year giving what prosecutors called all the cooperation they wanted, including in 62 hours of meetings and the production of "sweeping categories" of documents and electronic devices.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/677558000/federal-judge-delays-michael-flynn-sentencing-in-case-of-lying-to-feds
December 27: Giuliani calls for Mueller to be investigated for destruction of FBI evidence
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/422963-giuliani-calls-for-mueller-to-be-investigated-for-destruction-of-fbi-evidence
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February 22: On Tuesday, the New York Times published the results of an extensive investigation into Trump's "two-year war on the investigations encircling him." The paper found that there has been a "sustained, more secretive assault by Mr. Trump on the machinery of federal law enforcement" than has been previously publicly known ....
As part of his efforts to contain the ongoing legal crises he faces, Trump reportedly tried to install a loyalist in New York's Southern District, US attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, as the new person in charge of the investigations into Trump's hush-money payments, like the one apparently made to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/22/sf-based-irs-agent-stormy-daniels/
April 17: Everything We’ve Learned From Robert Mueller’s Investigation (So Far)
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/robert-mueller-investigation-what-we-know.html
April 18: The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, produced a report of more than 400 pages that painted a deeply unflattering picture of President Trump but stopped short of accusing him of criminal wrongdoing. Here are seven takeaways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-pdf-takeaways.html
April 30: Mueller's Letter To Barr Complained That Trump-Russia Report Summary Lacked 'Context'
Special counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter in late March objecting to Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of the conclusions of the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, a Justice Department official confirmed Tuesday night.
The letter written to Barr expressed the special counsel's frustration that the attorney general's memo to Congress "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718883130/mueller-complained-that-barr-summary-of-trump-russia-probe-lacked-context
May 1: Read: Letter from special counsel Robert Mueller to Attorney General William Barr
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/01/politics/mueller-letter-to-barr/index.html
June 12: Trump Tells ABC: Sure, I’d Collude Again
In a new interview released this afternoon by ABC News, President Trump tells George Stephanopoulos that he’d take information from a foreign government if one offered dirt on his 2020 opponent. “I think you might want to listen, there isn’t anything wrong with listening.”
President Trump rejected the idea that such foreign government interventions amounted to election interference. “It’s not an interference, they have information — I think I’d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI — if I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research, ‘oh let’s call the FBI.’ The FBI doesn’t have enough agents to take care of it. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that’s the way it is. It’s called oppo research.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-tells-abc-sure-id-collude-again
June 13: Pelosi: At Best, Trump Doesn’t Know ‘Difference Between Right And Wrong’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday chalked up President Trump’s foreign dirt remark to the President simply not knowing the difference between right and wrong.
“What the President said last night shows clearly once again, over and over again that he does not know the difference between right and wrong. And that’s probably the nicest thing I can say about him,” she said. “If he doesn’t know the difference, it could explain some of this ridiculous behavior.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelosi-trump-right-wrong
June 13: Republicans lash Trump for being open to foreign oppo
GOP senators vowed they would immediately turn to the FBI if approached with foreign dirt.
Soon after Donald Trump sparked his latest all-consuming controversy, Lindsey Graham spoke to the president and urged him to rethink his willingness to use foreign opposition research against his political opponents.
“The law is pretty clear. You can’t take anything of value from a foreign government,” Graham said he told Trump. “He says, ‘I didn’t say I did.’ I said: ‘Sitting down and talking to somebody’s not a crime, but it’s probably not a good idea. … I don’t agree with you.’”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/republicans-trump-foreign-interference-remarks-1364220
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