Attorney General Barr delivers principal conclusions from Robert Mueller's Russia probe report

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The delivery of Barr's conclusions marks the end of Robert Mueller's work as special counsel. But Trumpworld's legal woes are far from over.

Attorney General William Barr delivered his summary of the special counsel Robert Mueller's main findings in the Russia investigation on Sunday.

FILE PHOTO: Special Counsel Mueller departs after briefing members of the U.S. Senate on his investigation in WashingtonThe FBI's investigation began almost a year before Mueller's appointment, after the Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulosin May 2016 that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton's campaign in the form of"thousands" of hacked emails.

Mueller's office also charged others who weren't directly linked to the Trump campaign but were connected to Russia's interference in the election.were charged with conspiracy, and some were charged with identity theft. They are accused of running a wide-ranging social media disinformation campaign to either sway American voters toward Trump in the election or to dissuade Democratic voters from casting their ballots by denigrating the Clinton campaign.

The Manhattan US attorney's office is probing Trump's involvement in several hush-money payments during the election to women who said they had affairs with him. Cohen and several Trump Organization executives are cooperating with the ongoing investigation. Trump's longtime bookkeeper, Allen Weisselberg, also testified before a grand jury in the investigation.for documents related to its finances.

The US attorney's office in Washington, DC, is also taking over a case involving a Russian social-media conspiracy. Was there any connection between Trump's statement during an infamous July 27, 2016 press conference —"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that are missing" — and the start of the Russian hacking campaign against Clinton? In their charging document, prosecutors wrote that on the same day as Trump made his overture,"the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted...

Why were Kushner, Manafort, and Donald Trump Jr. keen on meeting two Russian lobbyists offering dirt on the Clinton campaign at Trump Tower in June 2016 even after they were told that the meeting was"part of Russia and its government's support" for Trump? The people involved have said that nothing came of the meeting and that the lobbyists instead wanted to discuss the Magnitsky Act.

 

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