ALERT: Special Counsel Mueller has submitted his report to Attorney General Barr.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday wrapped up his nearly two-year investigation into Donald Trump and Russia and sent his report to Attorney General Barr.
Barr also concluded in his letter that Mueller's investigation — relentlessly attacked as improper and a"witch hunt" by Trump — was conducted properly. Barr noted that he was required to inform congressional leader if Mueller had done anything"inappropriate or unwarranted.
To date, 34 people and three companies have been criminally charged in the sprawling probe, including Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn; former campaign chairman Paul Manafort; former political adviser Roger Stone; former personal lawyer Michael Cohen; and numerous Russian nationals.
As the Mueller investigation picked up steam and various Trump associates were charged, the president increasingly went on the offensive, blasting it as a"witch hunt" and"a hoax," calling Mueller's investigators"angry Democrats" and singling out some who'd worked on the case. He labeled Cohen"a rat" for cooperating with investigators.
Those and other actions taken by the president since the probe began led Mueller to investigate whether Trump was trying toThe FBI probe into the campaign's alleged Russia ties started in July 2016 after a little-known Trump campaign foreign policy adviser,, told an Australian diplomat that the Russians had obtained thousands of emails that would embarrass Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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