Former FBI Agents Defend Mueller Probe As Trump Escalates Attacks
Former FBI agents are defending the special counsel investigation amid escalating attacks by President Trump and other Republicans.
Former FBI agents are defending the special counsel investigation amid escalating attacks by President Trump and other Republicans.
Following President Trump’s questionable lead, some congressional Republicans are trying to sow doubt about the integrity and impartiality of the FBI and the investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. That investigation already has resulted in an indictment of Trump’s former campaign chairman and a guilty plea by his first national security advisor, and it shows no sign of concluding.
When news surfaced that Donald Trump’s former campaign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, is cooperating with the special counsel’s investigation, the president tweeted that his former aide was nothing more than a “young, low level volunteer.”
The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced the creation of an office to combat large-scale terrorist attacks.
Alex Jones, the poster-boy for rightwing conspiracies and paranoia, said he’s helping the Secret Service track down people whom he alleges are plotting to assassinate President Trump.
FBI Director Christopher Wray vigorously defended his agency and its employees Thursday against President Trump’s blistering, histrionic Twitter rants that insisted the bureau’s reputation was “in tatters” and the “worst in history.”
Donald Trump had just begun delivering his inauguration speech when his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, texted a former business associate to alert him that sections against Russia were ending and a plan was in the works to build nuclear reactors with Russian partners, a whistleblower has told Congress.
Many Republicans are scrambling to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller as the investigation into the cozy relationship between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia intensifies.