Trump kept up his calls for investigations into his political opponents on Monday, in anticipation of the expected release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report
And though Barr quoted Mueller’s report as specifically not exonerating the president, Trump and his allies have declared him innocent of all allegations against him. They have since moved on to amplify their calls that the Justice Department now investigate the origins of the Russia probe, claiming the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign was politically motivated and grounded in questionable evidence.
Barr was grilled last week on any discrepancies between the Mueller report and his own summary of it by congressional appropriators. In his testimony, he appeared to back Trump up on his claims that his 2016 campaign was spied on. “Spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” Barr told members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee during a hearing about the DOJ budget. “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated. But I need to explore that.”
While the president and his supporters have raged against his investigators from the beginning of the Russia investigation, he has also sporadically claimed without evidence that Clinton, his 2016 opponent, and the Democratic National Committee are truly guilty of collusion and obstruction of justice.
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