Fraud, coup attempt, witch hunt: how else did Trump call Muller’s investigation

US President Donald Trump said he asked the attorney general to figure out who started the investigation into the allegations that Russia was helping with his election campaign.

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Trump called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation an "attempted coup."

At the same time, Attorney General William Barr said that he believed that the American intelligence services were following Trump’s campaign headquarters and it is still unknownon what basis.

Representatives of the special services still said that they were following the espionage activity on the part of Russia, and not the Trump headquarters.

What did Trump say?

As far as known Muller's investigation found no evidence of trump or his entourage conspiracy with Russia. As for the allegations that Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, the special prosecutor did not come to any conclusion.

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“This was an attempted coup. This was an attempt to get rid of the president. And we defeated them. We beat them,” Trump said.

“The Mueller report, when they talk about obstruction [of justice], we fight back. And do you know why we fight back? Because I know how illegal it was. It was a fraud,” the president added.

According to him, Attorney General Barr began to understand how investigation beganwhich Muller subsequently took over.

“Because it was an illegal witch hunt and everyone knew it. And they knew it too. And they were caught. What they did was treason,” Trump said.

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Trump got what he wanted

Anthony Sucker

BBC Washington

Donald Trump has long demanded to investigate the activities of those who investigated his actions. Now, with the new Attorney General, he may succeed.

William Barr later tried to correct his testimony in the Senate that intelligence agencies were “monitoring” Trump’s headquarters, but it doesn’t matter anymore—the process has begun.

It is not yet clear whether this will only be an attempt to calm the impatient president or a full-fledged investigation.

At the moment there is no solid evidence that the decision to investigate the contacts of members of the campaign headquarters with Russia was wrong.

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But the president will undoubtedly refer to his attorney general if, in an abbreviated version of the report of special prosecutor Robert Muller, which should be made public in the coming days, some very inconvenient details will turn out for him.

Even if the investigation does not lead to any results, the very fact of its conduct can be detrimental to the opponents of the president, as he himself well understands.

What did the attorney general say?

William Barr testified in the US Senate Committee almost simultaneously with Trump's speech.

Barr was asked if the US intelligence agencies were monitoring the actions of Trump's campaign headquarters in 2016.

“I think there was surveillance,” Barr responded. “The question is whether it was justified.” I'm not saying it wasn't valid, but I have to look into it."

Barr also said he didn’t understand why the security services didn’t warn Trump’s headquarters that foreign spies could infiltrate it.

The attorney general called the FBI's work remarkable, but added that some in the management of the organization could make wrong decisions.

“I must ensure that the authorities do not abuse their powers,” Barr added.

Was there a surveillance of Trump's headquarters?

President Trump and his conservative allies have repeatedly claimed that the Obama administration has introduced an agent into his headquarters to discredit the Republican candidate.

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In May 2018 of the year on the air of the TV channel ABC James Clapper, a former US National Intelligence director, was asked if the Obama administration, in which he worked, was spying on Trump's entourage.

He replied that this was not the case: “they spied - and I don’t like this word - only on what the Russians were doing.”

“We were trying to understand where the Russians were trying to get in, where they wanted access, how they were trying to influence the course of events,” Clapper said.

The New York Times wrote in 2018 that the FBI sent an informant to the Trump campaign - an American university professor working in the UK - to establish contacts with George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, who called themselves Trump advisers. Although they played what is known to be a marginal role in the Trump campaign, their ties to Russia raised suspicions among the FBI.

Recall, since 2016, the United States has undergone several investigations into the alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. The loudest of them were investigations by the FBI and special prosecutor Robert Muller. Both of them concluded that there was no collusion. But later it turned out that the bases for the start of the investigation were fake files and unreasonable data, which were paid by the pre-election headquarters of ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not least relying on the help of Ukrainians.

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