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U.S. President Donald Trump demanded on Twitter on Sunday that the Justice Department look into whether his 2016 presidential campaign was infiltrated or surveilled by the agency or the FBI under the Obama administration. Federal investigators are looking into whether Russia tried to sway the election and if it worked with the Trump campaign to do so.
President Donald Trump is poised to officially demand a federal investigation into whether the Department of Justice "infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes," as he put it. Trump publicly mentioned this possibility as far back as March 2017, when he tweeted: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Thursday, May 17, 2018.
President Donald Trump 's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said the special counsel has indicated they can wrap up a portion of their investigation by September 1. Giuliani said about a month ago if the president agrees to an interview, special counsel Robert Mueller personally said his office will aim to finish up the investigation related to President Trump by that time. A timetable for other aspects of the remaining investigation, which has expanded over the course of the last year, was not discussed, according to Giuliani.
The United States has put on hold its plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Chinese products as it presses forward with negotiations to reduce its trade deficit with Beijing, a top priority of President Donald Trump. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, said Sunday that the two countries had made progress as they concluded two days of intense trade negotiations in Washington late last week.
Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller is aiming to finish the probe into potential wrongdoing by President Donald Trump by September 1. Giuliani, Trump's attorney, confirmed to CNN that Mueller's office shared its timeline with him about a month ago. The former New York mayor said, however, that Mueller gave him the information within the context of a discussion about whether Trump would do an interview with the special counsel.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday demanded that the Justice Department investigate whether the department or the FBI "infiltrated or surveilled" his campaign at the behest of the Obama administration. In ordering a new inquiry, Trump went beyond his usual tactics of suggesting wrongdoing and political bias by those investigating him, and crossed over into applying overt presidential pressure on the Justice Department to do his bidding, an extraordinary realm where past presidents have hesitated to tread.
Roger Stone, a GOP operative and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said Sunday he's "prepared" to be indicted as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. In an interview on NBC News' "Meet The Press," Stone dismissed the Mueller probe as "an effort to silence or punish the president's supporters and his advocates."
President Donald Trump has said he will "demand" this week that the Justice Department open an investigation into whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign for political purposes.
U.S. President Donald Trump demanded on Twitter on Sunday that the Justice Department look into whether his 2016 presidential campaign was infiltrated or surveilled by the agency or the FBI under the Obama administration. Trump's simmering anger over Special Counsel Robert Mueller's year-old Russia probe appeared to spill over into a series of well-worn recriminations in several tweets, including that the investigation was politically motivated and had its roots in the administration of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.
Trump tweeted: "I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!" Trump has been promoting a theory circulating in conservative circles about a possible FBI spy on the campaign, though his attorney has cast doubt on it. Rudy Giuliani, who represents Trump in the ongoing special counsel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, said in a television interview last week that neither he nor Trump knows for certain if there was a spy on the campaign.
US President Donald Trump says he will demand the Department of Justice review whether his 2016 presidential campaign was infiltrated or surveilled by the FBI or the department under the Obama administration. Mr Trump's simmering anger over special counsel Robert Mueller's year-old Russia probe appeared to spill over into a series of well-worn recriminations in several tweets, including that the investigation was politically motivated and had its roots in the administration of his Democratic predecessor.
President Donald Trump: If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal. Only the release or review of documents that the House Intelligence Committee is asking for can give the conclusive answers.
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