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The Special Counsel investigation of 2017 to 2019 (also referred to as the Mueller probe,
Help the Mueller investigation, or the Russia investigation)[1][2] was a United States law
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interfere in the 2016 presidential election. According to its authorizing document which was
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included the allegation that there were links or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential
Tools campaign and the Russian government[3][4] as well as "any matters that arose or may arise
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of justice by Trump and others.[5] Conducted by the Department of Justice Special Counsel's
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known as Fancy Bear, responsible for the 2016 DNC email hacking, were indicted.[18]
Investigations into Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen were referred to the Attorney's office Letter from Attorney General William
Barr on March 24, 2019, to leaders of
of the Southern District of New York.[19] Longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone was indicted on
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seven charges in January 2019.[20] committees with the summary of the
investigation
While enjoying bipartisan support, the Special Counsel investigation became subject to criticism
by Trump and his supporters. Trump has criticized people or groups related to the
investigation over 1,000 times. On January 30, 2019, an FBI court filing revealed that
someone located in Russia was also attempting to discredit the Special Counsel This article is part of
investigation through Twitter.[21][22] Russian people have also sent falsified documents to a series about
reporters.[23] Some allegations of investigators' misconduct have been raised and were Donald Trump
almost immediately debunked.[24] Trump and his supporters criticized the cost of the
investigation. By December 2018, the investigation had cost approximately $25 million while President of the United States
gaining approximately $48 million through asset forfeitures.[25][26] Incumbent
Presidency
The Special Counsel's office concluded its investigation and submitted the final report to Transition · Inauguration · Timeline ·
Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019.[27] On March 24, Barr sent a four-page Executive actions (proclamations · pardons)
letter to Congress highlighting the special counsel's findings regarding Russian interference · Polls · Protests · Trips (2017 · 2018 · 2019
· international) · Summits (Riyadh ·
and obstruction of justice.[28] Barr came to the conclusion that on the question of Russian
Singapore · Helsinki · Hanoi)
interference in the election, Mueller detailed two ways in which Russia attempted to
Appointments
influence the election in Trump's favor—disinformation and influence operations through the Cabinet (formation) · Ambassadors ·
Internet Research Agency, and Russian cyberattacks targeting the Democratic Party and Federal judges (Gorsuch · Kavanaugh ·
Supreme Court candidates) · U.S. Attorneys ·
Clinton campaign—but "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired
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or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference
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activities."[29][30][31][32] On the question of obstruction of justice, Barr said no conclusion was Economy (tax cuts · tariffs · China trade war)
reached within the special counsel, noting that Mueller wrote "while this report does not · Environment (Paris withdrawal) ·
conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."[29][33] Barr Foreign policy (Iran · Jerusalem) ·
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goes on to say the report identified "no actions that, in [his and Rosenstein's] judgment, national emergency · travel ban · wall) ·
constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and Social issues (cannabis) · Space
were done with corrupt intent." Barr additionally stated the Justice Department would be "in Presidential campaigns [show]
a position to move forward expeditiously" in releasing information after identifying material
which by law cannot be made public.[34] Controversies involving Russia [hide]
Business projects in Russia ·
Contents [hide] Election interference (timeline) ·
Associates' links with Russian officials ·
1 Original claim of Russian election involvement Steele dossier · Trump Tower meeting ·
2 Origin and powers Wiretapping allegations ·
2.1 Original FBI investigations Classified information disclosure ·
2.2 Oversight and appointment Special Counsel investigation
(2017 · 2018 · 2019)
2.3 Reasons for appointing a special counsel
2.4 Release of findings Business and personal [show]
3 Changes to oversight leadership
4 Grand juries
4.1 Grand jury testimony
5 Legal teams
6 Topics
6.1 Russian election interference
6.2 Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
6.3 Alleged collusion between Trump campaign and Russian agents
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6.4 Obstruction of justice
6.5 Financial investigations
6.6 Lobbyists
6.7 Trump as a subject of investigation
6.8 Other topics
6.9 Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
7 Cost of investigation
8 Criminal charges
9 Conclusions
10 Reactions
11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Original claim of Russian election involvement [ edit ]
In January 2017, an assessment was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence which asserted that Russian
leadership had favored presidential candidate Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin had
personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Clinton's electoral chances and "undermine public faith in the US democratic
process".[35] It is alleged that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election by bolstering the candidacies of Trump,
Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein in order to increase political instability in the United States as well as to damage the Clinton presidential
campaign.[36][37]
Origin and powers [ edit ]
Original FBI investigations [ edit ]
When the special counsel was appointed in May 2017, he took over an existing counterintelligence investigation by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) into what proved to be Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and numerous secretive links
between Trump associates and Russian officials.[38] In February 2018, the Nunes memo, written by staff for U.S. Representative Devin
Nunes, confirmed that the information on Papadopoulos had been the impetus for the original FBI investigation, rather than the Trump-
Russia dossier as asserted by some.[39][40]
The special counsel also took over an FBI investigation on whether President Trump had committed obstruction of justice, which began
within eight days after Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey. CNN reported in December 2018 that then-acting FBI Director
Andrew McCabe started the investigation based on Comey's firing and also Comey's allegation that Trump had asked him to stop
investigating Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn.[7] In February 2019, McCabe, since fired from the FBI, confirmed he
launched the obstruction of justice investigation for those reasons, and gave additional reasons such as Trump's multiple depictions of
the investigation into Trump associates and Russia as a "witch hunt", Trump allegedly telling Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to
mention the Russia probe in Rosenstein’s memo to recommend firing Comey, and Trump's comments to the Russian ambassador and
NBC relating Comey's firing to the Russia probe.[41]
Oversight and appointment [ edit ]
A special counsel investigation is subject to oversight by the Attorney General.[42] After questions
arose regarding contacts between then-senator Jeff Sessions and Russian ambassador Sergei
Kislyak in 2016, one of the first things Sessions did after being appointed attorney general, was
to recuse himself from any Justice Department investigations regarding Russian interference in
the election.[43]
Over the ensuing months, Trump repeatedly expressed anger over Sessions' decision to
Former Attorney General Jeff
recuse.[44] Sessions issues statement
Once recused, oversight of any Russia investigation into the 2016 election fell to the Deputy announcing his recusal.
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee.
As part of his oversight, Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 with the mandate "to oversee the
previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters."[45]
Reasons for appointing a special counsel [ edit ]
Firing of James Comey [ edit ]

Main article: Dismissal of James Comey
The special counsel appointment on May 17, 2017, came after protests, mostly from Democrats, over President Trump firing the FBI
Director James Comey on May 9, 2017.[46][47] In Congress, in reaction to Comey's firing, over 130 Democratic lawmakers called for a
special counsel to be appointed, over 80 Democratic lawmakers called for an independent investigation, while over 40 Republican
lawmakers expressed questions or concerns.[8] Another factor for the special counsel's appointment was Trump's shifting rationales for
the dismissal, in some of which he seemed to imply that he had fired Comey because of the Russian investigation.[48] Also, in an attempt
to spur the appointment of a special counsel, Comey arranged to leak to the press some notes he had taken, in which he said Trump
asked him to end the probe into Michael Flynn.[49]
While the termination letter and several administration officials initially stated that Trump fired Comey solely on the recommendations of
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, several other reasons were later offered. Some cited a
Rosenstein-authored memo and Comey's subsequent allegation that Trump asked Comey to drop the FBI investigation into former
National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.[50]
According to "four congressional officials", the dismissal took place just a few days after Comey requested additional resources to step
up the Russia investigation (the Justice Department denied that such a request was made).[51][52] On May 9, hours before the dismissal, it
was revealed that federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to Flynn's associates, representing a significant escalation in the
FBI's Russia investigation.[53][54]
In an NBC News interview, Trump stated that when he decided to fire Comey, "I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with
Trump and Russia is a made up story."[55] During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Trump allegedly told the Russian officials "I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut
job ... I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off ... I’m not under investigation."[56][57]
Calls for a special counsel "intensified" after the firing of Comey, according to the Washington Post,[58] and Mueller was appointed eight
days after the firing.[59] The hiring of Mueller marked "a concession by the Trump administration to Democratic demands" for the
investigation to be run independently of the Justice Department, according to the Washington Post.[58]
The New York Times reported on January 11, 2019, that FBI counterintelligence grew concerned about Trump’s ties to Russia during the
2016 campaign but held off opening an investigation because of uncertainty about how to proceed on such a sensitive matter. Trump’s
behavior during the days immediately before and after Comey’s firing caused them to begin investigating whether Trump had been
working on behalf of Russia against U.S. interests, knowingly or unknowingly. The FBI merged that counterintelligence investigation with a
criminal obstruction of justice investigation related to Comey's firing. Mueller took over that investigation upon his appointment, although
it was not immediately clear if he had pursued the counterintelligence angle.[60]
Authority [ edit ]
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in his role as Acting Attorney General for matters related to the campaign due to the recusal
of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, appointed Mueller, a former Director of the FBI, to serve as Special Counsel for the United States
Department of Justice (DOJ) with authority to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, including exploring any
links or coordination between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government; "any matters that arose or may arise
directly from the investigation"; and any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).[61]
As special counsel, Mueller has the power to issue subpoenas,[62] hire staff members, request funding, and prosecute federal crimes in
connection with the election interference along with other crimes he may uncover.[63] The constitutionality of indicting a sitting president
remains an unsettled legal question.[64][65][66][67]
Release of findings [ edit ]
The Special Counsel law requires a special counsel to confidentially provide the current attorney
general with a report of findings. The attorney general, in this case William Barr, is then required
to provide a summary of the findings to Congress, although he has considerable discretion in
how much detail he provides. The full release of the Mueller findings to Congress and the public
is not assured.[68] Should Congress be dissatisfied with the summary it is provided, it could
subpoena Mueller's full report. Congress could also call Mueller to testify.[69][70]
White House attorneys expect to preview whatever findings Barr decides to provide to Congress
and the public, in order to consider asserting executive privilege to withhold the release of
information gleaned from internal documents and interviews with White House officials.[71]
Commentators have noted that executive privilege cannot be invoked if the purpose is to shield
wrongdoing or unlawful conduct.[72][73]
On March 14, 2019, the House voted 420-0 in favor of a non-binding resolution calling for the full
Mueller report to be released to Congress and the public, excluding classified or grand jury
Letter from William Barr to leaders
information.[74] The same day the bill was brought before the Senate for unanimous consent, but
of the House and Senate judiciary
was blocked by Senator Lindsey Graham, who said it needed a clause requiring the appointment committees notifying them about
of a special counsel to investigate allegations against the 2016 Clinton campaign.[75] On March conclusion of the investigation
15, Trump stated "there should be no Mueller Report" because "this was an illegal & conflicted
investigation." Five days later he stated, "I told the House, 'If you want, let [the public] see it,'" adding, "that’s up to the Attorney
General."[76][77]
The special counsel delivered a report of findings to Barr on Friday, March 22, 2019. That same day, Barr wrote to the leaders of the
House and Senate Judiciary Committees: "I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as
this weekend."[78]
In a four-page summary of the Mueller report sent to Congress, Barr wrote: "While this report does not conclude that the president
committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."[3]
Changes to oversight leadership [ edit ]
On November 7, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at President Trump's request.[79] Until the removal of Sessions as
Attorney General, Rosenstein continued to have authority over the use of DOJ resources by Mueller and the investigation. In an interview
with the Associated Press, Rosenstein said he would recuse himself from supervision of Mueller if he himself were to become a subject in
the investigation due to his role in the dismissal of Comey.[80] If Rosenstein were to recuse himself, his duties in this matter would have
been assumed by the Justice Department's third-in-command, Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio.[81] So long as no successor
fills that office, Solicitor General Noel Francisco would assume the authorities of Associate Attorney General.[82]
After Sessions' resignation, Trump appointed the former Attorney General's chief of staff Matthew
Whitaker as acting Attorney General, effectively interrupting Rosenstein's oversight of the special
counsel.[83][84] In August 2017, one month prior to joining the Justice Department as Sessions'
chief of staff, Whitaker wrote an opinion column for CNN titled "Mueller's investigation of Trump is
going too far".[85] He stated that Mueller's investigation is a "lynch mob", that it should be limited
and should not probe into Trump's finances.[86][87] The New York Times reported that White
House aides and other people close to Trump anticipated that Whitaker would "rein in" the
investigation.[88]
Whitaker, a Trump loyalist that White House chief of staff John Kelly described as the West
Wing's "eyes and ears" in the Justice Department,[89] had publicly criticized the Mueller
investigation on several occasions before joining the Justice Department in September 2017,
asserting it was "going too far" and referring to it as a "lynch mob."[90] Whitaker is also a personal
friend of Sam Clovis,[91] a former co-chair of the Trump campaign who has testified to Mueller's
investigators and grand jury. Because of his prior statements and involvement,[92] many Matthew Whitaker, who served as
the Acting Attorney General from
Democrats and some Republicans have asserted that Whitaker's potential conflicts of interest November 2018 to February 2019
require him to recuse himself from overseeing Mueller,[93][94] although Whitaker reportedly
indicated he had no intention of doing so.[95] Justice Department ethics officials typically review
conflicts of interest to recommend recusals,[96][97][98] but their findings are not binding and are usually kept confidential.
During his January 2019 confirmation hearings, William Barr, whom Trump nominated to succeed Whitaker, suggested the investigation’s
findings could be withheld from the public, as their release is not mandated by law. In June 2018, Barr had sent an unsolicited 20-page
memo to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein arguing that the Special Counsel's approach to potential obstruction of justice by
Trump was "fatally misconceived" and that, based on his knowledge, Trump's actions were within his presidential authority. In June 2017,
Barr had characterized the obstruction investigation as “asinine” and that it was “taking on the look of an entirely political operation to
overthrow the president.” Trump stated in a February 2019 interview that he had not committed to releasing the Mueller report.[99][100][101]
Grand juries [ edit ]
On August 3, 2017, Mueller empaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of his investigation. The grand jury has the power to
subpoena documents, require witnesses to testify under oath, and issue indictments for targets of criminal charges if probable cause is
found.
The Washingtonian grand jury is separate from an earlier Virginian grand jury investigating Michael Flynn; the Flynn case has been
absorbed into Mueller's overall investigation.[102]
Grand jury testimony [ edit ]
The grand jury has issued subpoenas to those involved in the Trump campaign–Russian meeting held on June 9, 2016, at Trump Tower,
which was also the location of Trump's presidential campaign headquarters.[103]
Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-born lobbyist and former Soviet Army officer, a participant in the Donald Trump Jr. meeting, testified
under oath for several hours on August 11, 2017.[104][105]
Jason Maloni, spokesman for Paul Manafort, testified under oath for more than two hours on September 15, 2017.[106] Maloni was
employed by Manafort following the five months he served as Chairman of Trump's campaign for president in 2016, to answer
questions about Manafort's involvement in Trump's campaign.
Sam Clovis testified during the week of August 23, 2017.[107]
Carter Page[108][when?]
George Nader, Lebanese-American businessman who advises UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, testified during
the week preceding March 5, 2018.[109]
NBC News reported on August 25, 2017, that "in recent days" the grand jury subpoenaed witness testimony from the executives of six
public relations firms, who worked with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on lobbying efforts in Ukraine.[110]
On January 16, 2018, The New York Times reported that Steve Bannon was subpoenaed by Mueller to testify before the standing grand
jury in Washington, DC.[111] Reuters and CNN reported the next day that Bannon had struck a deal with Mueller's team to be interviewed
by prosecutors instead of testifying before the grand jury.[112][113] On February 15, 2018, multiple sources reported that those interviews
had taken place over multiple days that week.[114][115][116] TMZ reported that Kristin M. Davis, the "Manhattan Madam" who had previously
worked for Roger Stone, was subpoenaed in June 2018.[117] On August 10, 2018, a federal judge found Stone's former aide Andrew
Miller to be in contempt of court for refusing to testify before the grand jury.[118] Also that day, the Mueller investigation subpoenaed
Randy Credico, whom Stone had described as his "backchannel" to Julian Assange.[119] The Wall Street Journal reported on November
14, 2018, that Mueller's investigators are examining whether Stone engaged in witness tampering by intimidating Credico into supporting
Stone's assertions.[120]
Jerome Corsi, former Washington bureau chief of Infowars, was subpoenaed to appear on September 7, 2018, before a Mueller grand
jury. Corsi's attorney said he expected his client to be asked about his association with Roger Stone, who had appeared to know in
advance that WikiLeaks would release damaging information about the Clinton campaign.[121]
Legal teams [ edit ]
Main article: Legal teams involved in the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)
The investigation involves multiple legal teams, specifically the attorneys, supervised by Special
Counsel Robert Mueller, taking part in the investigation; the team defending President Trump in
his personal capacity; and the team representing the White House as an institution separate from
the President.
According to CNN, as of August 2018, the prosecution team includes 15 attorneys, led by
Mueller.[122] The additional supporting staff brings the number over 30. There have been few
reported departures from Mueller's team.[123]
The defense has two components: Emmet Flood representing the White House,[124] and a team
representing Trump personally, including Jay Sekulow, Andrew Ekonomou, Rudy Giuliani, the
Raskin & Raskin law firm, and Joanna Hendon. Former members of the defense team include
white-collar crimes expert John Dowd[125] and Ty Cobb representing the office of the
presidency.[124]
Mueller's legal team has been consistently attacked as biased against President Trump, who Robert Mueller was appointed in
once referred to this team as "The 13 Angry Democrats".[126] However, Mueller himself is a May 2017 as special counsel.
registered Republican, and choosing to hire or not hire career attorneys on the basis of political
affiliation is contrary to both Justice Department policy and federal law.[127]
Topics [ edit ]
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, serving as Acting Attorney General due to the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
authorized Mueller to investigate and prosecute "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals
associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump," as well as "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation"
and any other matters within the scope of 28 CFR 600.4 – Jurisdiction.[128][129]
Russian election interference [ edit ]

Main article: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
In late-July 2016, the FBI opened counterintelligence investigations into four Americans who had
contact with Trump to determine whether they might have coordinated or cooperated with
Russia's activities.[130][131][132] Those investigations became part of the Special Counsel's
portfolio.[133]
U.S. intelligence agencies in January 2017 concluded "with high confidence" that the Russian
government interfered in the election by hacking into the computer servers of the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) and the personal Gmail account of Clinton campaign chairman John
Podesta and forwarding their contents to WikiLeaks,[134][135][136] as well as by disseminating fake
news promoted on social media,[137] and by penetrating, or trying to penetrate, the election
systems and databases of multiple U.S. states.[138] de Volkskrant reported on January 25, 2018,
that Dutch intelligence agency AIVD had penetrated the Russian hacking group Cozy Bear in
2014 and in 2015 observed them hack the DNC in real time, as well as capturing the images of
the hackers via a security camera in their workspace.[139][140] The New York Times reported on
July 18, 2018, that American, British and Dutch intelligence services had observed stolen DNC Internet Research Agency
emails on Russian military intelligence networks.[141] NBC News reported on March 1, 2018, that indictment
Mueller was assembling a case for criminal charges against Russians who carried out the hacking
and leaking.[142] Those charges were brought on July 13, 2018.[18]
Russia's influence on U.S. voters through social media is a primary focus of the Mueller investigation.[143] Mueller used a search warrant
to obtain detailed information about Russian ad purchases on Facebook. According to a former federal prosecutor, the warrant means
that a judge was convinced that foreigners had illegally contributed to influencing a US election via Facebook ads.[144]
On February 13, 2018, in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the heads of the top six American intelligence agencies
unanimously reaffirmed Russian interference. Three sources familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN he remains unconvinced that Russia
interfered because it suggests he didn't win the election solely on his own merits.[145]
The Mueller Report concluded while there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the election, the
Russian government did attempt to influence the election in Trump's favor by hacking Democratic political organizations and spreading
"disinformation and social media" discord.[31]
Links between Trump associates and Russian officials [ edit ]

Main article: Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
Further information: Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia
As early as spring 2015, American intelligence agencies started overhearing conversations in which Russian government officials, some
within the Kremlin, discussed associates of Trump, then a presidential candidate.[146][147]
The New York Times reported on February 14, 2017, that phone records and communications
intercepts showed that Trump associates—including members of the Trump campaign—had
"repeated contacts" with senior Russian intelligence officials during the 2016 campaign. Paul
Manafort was the only Trump associate who was specifically identified as participating in these
communications.[148] In addition, some senior Trump associates, including Kushner, Trump Jr.,
Sessions, Flynn and Manafort, had direct contacts with Russian officials during 2016. Michael
Flynn was forced to resign as National Security Advisor on February 13, 2017, after it was
Michael Flynn revealed that on December 29, 2016, the day that Obama announced sanctions against Russia,
Flynn had discussed the sanctions with Russian ambassador Kislyak. Flynn had earlier
acknowledged speaking to Kislyak but denied discussing the sanctions.[149][150] Also in December
2016, Flynn and presidential advisor Jared Kushner met with Kislyak hoping to set up a direct, secure line of communication with Russian
officials about which American intelligence agencies would be unaware.[151][152] Jared Kushner also met with Sergei Gorkov, the head of
the Russian state-owned bank Vnesheconombank (VEB), which has been subject to U.S. economic sanctions since July 2014.[153][154]
Flynn and Kushner failed to report these meetings on their security clearance forms.[155][154]
The Trump Organization pursued a luxury hotel and condominium project in Moscow—dubbed the Trump Tower Moscow—during the
Trump presidential campaign. This project was facilitated by Michael Cohen, then an attorney for the Trump Organization, and from
January 2017 to May 2018 Trump's personal attorney. Trump signed a nonbinding "letter of intent" dated October 13, 2015, to proceed
with the project.[156] The letter, also signed by Russian investor Andrei Rozov, was forwarded to Cohen by Russian-American real estate
developer Felix Sater, who had worked with The Trump Organization on prior deals, including Trump SoHo and Trump International Hotel
& Residence. Sater has also been involved in criminal activities involving organized crime and has served as an informant to the FBI
relating to those activities.[157] He boasted to Cohen about his connections to Vladimir Putin, saying in an email to Cohen on November
13, 2015, "Buddy our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins [sic] team to buy in on this. I will
manage this process." He also asserted that he had secured financing for the project through the Russian state-owned VTB Bank, which
was under sanctions by the United States government. Cohen emailed Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in January 2016 to request
assistance in advancing the project and later stated he didn't recall receiving a response. Cohen told the Senate Intelligence Committee
in September 2017 that the deal was abandoned in January 2016, but in November 2018 admitted in a guilty plea that he had minimized
Trump's role in the plans "to be consistent with [Trump's] political messaging" and that negotiations had actually extended through June
2016. Cohen also admitted that Peskov's office had, in fact, replied to his January 2016 email and discussed the deal with him on the
phone.[158][159] In a sentencing memorandum filed the day after his guilty plea, Cohen's attorneys stated he kept Trump "apprised" of the
"substantive conversation" Cohen had with the Russian official, and discussed with Trump traveling to Russia to advance the project
during the summer of 2016.[160] BuzzFeed News reported on March 12, 2018, that Mueller's investigators had questioned Sater,[161] and
on April 13, 2018, reported that a former Russian spy had helped secure financing for the project.[162] In 2010, Sater was provided
business cards describing himself as "Senior Advisor to Donald Trump" with an email address at TrumpOrg.com.[163] In a 2013 sworn
affidavit, Trump said "If [Sater] were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn't know what he looked like,"[164] and in 2015 he stated
"Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it. I'm not that familiar with him."[165]
The Trump team issued multiple denials of any contacts between Trump associates and Russia, but many of those denials turned out to
be false.[166][167] On December 4, 2017, in a court filing requesting that the judge revoke Manafort's bond agreement, prosecutors stated
that Paul Manafort had worked with a Russian intelligence official to draft an op-ed essay while he was out on bail.[168]
The New York Times reported, on March 28, 2018, that former Trump campaign deputy chairman
Rick Gates had, in September and October 2016, frequently communicated with a man that the
FBI believes is a former agent of GRU, Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency, and who had
maintained active links with Russian intelligence during these communications; this disclosure
was written into a court sentencing document for Alex van der Zwaan, submitted by Robert
Mueller. Identified in the document as "Person A," The Times reported that the man matched the
description of Konstantin Kilimnik, who, for years, was Paul Manafort's "right-hand man" in
Ukraine. Gates reportedly told an associate that he knew "Person A" was a former GRU agent,
although Manafort told associates he was not aware of such a connection.[169] The Times
reported on January 8, 2019, that in spring 2016 Gates and Manafort gave polling data, some of
which was private to the Trump campaign, to Kilimnik, asking he pass it to Ukrainians Serhiy
Rick Gates
Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov.[170] During a closed-door court hearing on February 4, 2019,
regarding false statements Manafort had made to investigators about his communications with
Kilimnik, special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told judge Amy Berman Jackson that "This goes, I think, very much to the heart
of what the special counsel's office is investigating," suggesting that Mueller's office continued to examine a possible agreement between
Russia and the Trump campaign.[171]
Reuters reported on March 29, 2018, that the special counsel is examining an event at the 2016 Republican National Convention at
which Jeff Sessions had conversations with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Investigators are also looking into how and why
language deemed hostile to Russia was removed from the Republican party's platform document during the convention. Mueller's office
is also inquiring whether Sessions had private conversations with Kislyak at a Trump speech at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016.[172]
The Steele dossier asserted that Trump attorney Michael Cohen in August 2016 had a clandestine meeting with Kremlin representatives
in Prague. Cohen has stated he has never been to Prague, inviting investigators to examine his passport.[173] McClatchy reported on
April 13, 2018, that Mueller's investigators have evidence that in August or early September 2016 Cohen traveled to Prague by way of
Germany. Such a trip would not have required a passport as Germany and the Czech Republic are in the Schengen Area which has
abolished passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders.[174] On April 14, 2018, Cohen again denied he had ever
been to Prague, although weeks after the 2016 election he had told journalist David Corn he had been in Prague fourteen years
earlier.[175][176] McClatchy reported in December 2018 that a mobile phone traced to Cohen had "pinged" cellphone towers around
Prague in late summer 2016. McClatchy also reported that during that time an eastern European intelligence agency had intercepted
communications between Russians, one of whom mentioned that Cohen was in Prague.[177]
On July 21, 2018, the Justice Department released a heavily redacted version of the October
2016 FISA warrant application for Carter Page, which stated in part "The FBI believes that Page
has been collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government" and "the FBI believes that
the Russian government's efforts are being coordinated with Page and perhaps other individuals
associated with Candidate #1's campaign."[178][179]:9 The application also stated
[A]ccording to Source #1, Divyekin [who is assessed as Igor Nikolayevich Divyekin]

had met secretly with Page and that their agenda for the meeting included Divyekin
raising a dossier or "kompromat" that the Kremlin possessed on Candidate #2 and
the possibility of it being released to Candidate #1's campaign.[179]:18
The Steele dossier asserted that Page had secretly met "senior Kremlin Internal Affairs official, Carter Page
DIVYEKIN" in Moscow on "either 7 or 8 July" of 2016, while Page was still officially with the Trump
campaign, but did not refer to any kompromat.
Alleged collusion between Trump campaign and Russian agents [ edit ]

Further information: Trump campaign–Russian meetings and Trump–Russia dossier
2016 or earlier [ edit ]

Further information: Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Mueller investigated the meeting on June 9, 2016, in Trump Tower in New York City between three
senior members of Trump's presidential campaign—Kushner, Manafort, and Donald Trump Jr.—
and at least five other people, including Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin,
a lobbyist and former Soviet army officer who met senior Trump campaign aides, Ike Kaveladze,
British publicist Rob Goldstone, and translator Anatoli Samochornov.[180][181] Goldstone had
suggested the meeting to Trump Jr., and it was arranged in a series of emails later made public.
In one email exchange of June 3, 2016, Goldstone wrote Trump Jr. that Aras Agalarov "offered to
provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Trump Tower, Manhattan, site of the
Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father," adding that it was meeting on June 9, 2016
"very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for
Mr. Trump" that he could send to Donald Trump's assistant Rhona Graff. Trump Jr. responded
minutes later "Thanks Rob I appreciate that" and "if it's what you say I love it."[182] Trump Jr. initially told the press that the meeting was
held to discuss adoptions of Russian children by Americans, but after contrary media reports he added that he agreed to the meeting
with the understanding that he would receive information damaging to Hillary Clinton.[183] Mueller's team investigated the emails and the
meeting,[180] and whether President Trump later tried to hide the meeting's purpose.[184] On July 18, 2017, Kaveladze's attorney said that
Mueller's investigators were seeking information about the Russian meeting in June 2016 from his client,[185] and on July 21, Mueller
asked the White House to preserve all documents related to the Russian meeting.[186] It has been reported that Manafort had made
notes during the Russian meeting.[187] CNN reported on July 26, 2018, that anonymous sources stated that Michael Cohen was prepared
to tell the Mueller investigation that Trump was aware of and approved of the June 9, 2016, meeting in advance, which Trump and Trump
Jr. have repeatedly denied. CNN reported in the same story that Cohen attorney Lanny Davis had declined to comment for the report.[188]
The following day, The Washington Post reported a similar story coming from one anonymous source, although the paper did not
specifically mention Russians.[189] One month later, Davis identified himself as that source, clarifying that he could not be certain of
Cohen's knowledge in the matter. Davis also asserted he had been a source for the CNN story.[190] A CNN spokeswoman stated, "We
stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it."[190][191]
CNN reported on March 23, 2017, that the FBI was examining "human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of
in-person meetings" indicating that Trump associates may have coordinated with "suspected Russian operatives" to release information
damaging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.[192]
2017 [ edit ]
Further information: Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2017)
By August 3, 2017, Mueller had impaneled a grand jury in the District of Columbia that issued subpoenas concerning the meeting.[193]
The Financial Times reported on August 31 that Akhmetshin had given sworn testimony to Mueller's grand jury.[194]
CNN reported on September 19, 2017, that Manafort had been a target of a FISA wiretap both before and after the 2016 election,
extending into early 2017. Some of the intercepted communications caused concerns among investigators that Manafort had solicited
assistance from Russians for the campaign, although the evidence was reportedly inconclusive. The wiretaps began sometime after
Manafort became a subject of an FBI investigation into his business practices in 2014. The Mueller investigation was provided details of
these intercepts.[195]
Mueller is investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Republican activist Peter W. Smith, who stated that he tried to obtain Hillary
Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, and that he was acting on behalf of Michael Flynn and other senior Trump campaign members.
Trump campaign officials have denied that Smith was working with them.[196] In fall 2017, Mueller's team interviewed former Government
Communications Headquarters cybersecurity researcher Matt Tait, who had been approached by Smith to verify the authenticity of emails
allegedly hacked from Clinton's private email server.[197] Tait reportedly told House Intelligence Committee investigators in October 2017
that he believed Smith had ties to members of Trump's inner circle—including Flynn, Steve Bannon, and Kellyanne Conway—and may
have been helping build opposition research for the Trump campaign.[198] Smith committed suicide in May 2017, several days after
talking to The Wall Street Journal about his alleged efforts. Aged 81 and reportedly in failing health, he left a carefully prepared file of
documents, including a statement police called a suicide note.[199] An attorney for Smith's estate said in October 2017 that some of
Smith's documents had been turned over to the Senate Intelligence Committee.[200] The Wall Street Journal reported on October 7,
2018, that Smith had raised at least $100,000 from donors in his pursuit of the Clinton emails, that his estate had provided documents to
the Mueller investigation, and that associates of Smith had been questioned by Mueller's investigators or a grand jury.[201] The Wall
Street Journal reported on October 10, 2018, that Smith had established a "professional relationship" with Flynn as early as 2015, and
during the campaign was using Flynn's contacts to assist with his search for the Clinton emails.[202] The Journal reported on October 19,
2018, that the Mueller investigation has evidence Smith may have had prior knowledge of the Guccifer 2.0 hacks.[203]
In December 2017, it was reported that the Mueller investigation was examining whether the Trump campaign and the Republican
National Committee, who worked together on the digital arm of Trump's campaign, provided assistance to Russian trolls attempting to
influence voters.[204][205]
2018 [ edit ]
Yahoo News reported that Mueller's team was examining whether the joint RNC–Trump campaign data operation—which was directed on
Trump's side by Brad Parscale and managed by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner—was related to the activities of Russian trolls and
bots aimed at influencing the U.S. electorate.[206] Also that month, the Democratic ranking members of the House Oversight and Judiciary
committees asked their respective Republican chairmen to subpoena two of the data firms hired by Trump's campaign for documents
related to Russia's election interference, including the firm headed by Parscale.[207][208] On February 27, 2018, Trump selected Parscale
to serve as campaign manager on his 2020 reelection campaign.[209] NBC News reported on February 28, 2018, that Mueller's
investigators asked witnesses pointed questions about whether Trump was aware that Democratic emails had been stolen before that
was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their strategic release. This is the first reported indication that Mueller's investigation
is specifically examining whether Trump was personally involved in collusive activities.[210]
Mueller's investigators also asked about the relationship between Roger Stone and WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange, and why Trump took policy positions favorable to Russia. Stone, a
longtime Republican "dirty trickster" and Trump confidant[211] repeatedly discussed his
backchannel communications with Assange and claimed knowledge of forthcoming leaks from
Wikileaks.[212] He also exchanged Twitter private messages with Guccifer 2.0, which American
intelligence connected to two Russian intelligence groups that cybersecurity analysts have
concluded hacked Democratic National Committee emails.[213] The New York Times reported on
November 1, 2018, that Stone and Steve Bannon exchanged emails in October 2016 about
Assange's intent to release documents, and that Bannon and other former senior Trump
campaign officials told Mueller's investigators of Stone's assertions that he was a conduit to
Wikileaks and seemed aware of imminent document releases, although the "top tier" of the
campaign was skeptical of Stone's claims.[214] Reuters reported on May 16, 2018, that Mueller's
office subpoenaed Stone's social media strategist, Jason Sullivan, the prior week to testify before
a grand jury on May 18 and to provide documents, objects and electronically stored
information.[215] Reuters reported the next day that John Kakanis, Stone's driver, accountant and
Julian Assange, editor of Wikileaks
operative, was also subpoenaed.[216]
Investigators also focused on Trump's public comments in July 2016 asking Russia to find emails
that were deleted from Hillary Clinton's private email server. At a news conference on July 27, 2016, days after WikiLeaks began
publishing the Democratic National Committee emails, Trump said, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails
that are missing."[217] The July 13, 2018, indictment of 12 Russian GRU agents[18] described
...on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a
domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton's personal office. At or around the same time, they also
targeted seventy-six email addresses at the domain for the Clinton Campaign.[218]
After a "testy March 5 meeting, Mueller's team agreed to provide the president's lawyers with more specific information about the subjects
that prosecutors wished to discuss with the president." Then Jay Sekulow "compiled a list of 49 questions that the team believed the
president would be asked... The New York Times first reported the existence of the list."[219]
On April 30, 2018, The New York Times published a list of interview questions for Trump that the Mueller investigation had provided to
the president's attorneys. The list was provided to The Times by an individual outside Trump's legal team. Among the questions was,
"What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to
the campaign?" Before this disclosure, there had been no publicly available information indicating any such outreach. The Times noted
that the questions were not quoted verbatim and in some cases were condensed.[220] Written responses to some of the questions were
provided to the Mueller investigation on November 20, 2018.[221]
The New York Times reported on May 15, 2018, that Trump campaign policy aide and later White House Deputy Cabinet Secretary John
Mashburn testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2018 that he recalled receiving an email from George Papadopoulos in
the first half of 2016 indicating that the Russian government had damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Before this report, there had
been no publicly available information indicating that Papadopoulos had informed anyone on the Trump campaign about such matters.
Despite an extensive search for the purported email by various investigators, it has not been located.[222] A court document[223] Mueller's
office filed in association with Papadopoulos's guilty plea included verbatim quotes from various emails Papadopoulos had sent or
received, but the Mashburn email was not referenced in that document.[citation needed]
2019 [ edit ]
On March 22, 2019, the Special Counsel submitted their final report to Attorney General William Barr.[224] The investigation garnered 199
criminal charges, 37 indictments or guilty pleas, and 5 prison sentences.[225]
On March 24, 2019, Barr sent a four-page letter to Congress detailing the special counsel's findings. The letter was split into 2 sections:
The first section discusses Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the second section details whether Trump
obstructed justice.[226][227]
Obstruction of justice [ edit ]

See also: Dismissal of James Comey
Shortly before firing him, Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation
into a member of the Trump Campaign, former National Security Advisor Flynn.[228] In March,
Trump reportedly discussed the FBI's Russia investigation with Director of National Intelligence
Dan Coats and then CIA Director Mike Pompeo (who is currently serving as Secretary of State as
of April 26, 2018), and asked if they could intervene with Comey to limit or stop it.[229] When he
was asked at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the report, Coats said he would not
discuss conversations he had with the president but "I have never felt pressured to intervene in
the Russia investigation in any way."[230] Before being appointed Director of National Intelligence
by Trump, Coats had been an elected Republican politician since 1981, serving in both the
House and Senate.[231]
In a May 2017 interview with NBC News anchorman Lester Holt, Trump stated he was thinking of
"this Russia thing" when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey.[232] Trump's statement
raised concerns of potential obstruction of justice.[233] In May 2018 Trump denied firing Comey
because of the Russia investigation.[234] In August 2018 Trump tweeted that "Holt got caught
fudging my tape on Russia," followed by his attorney Jay Sekulow asserting in September 2018
that NBC had edited the Trump interview.[235][236] Neither Trump nor Sekulow produced evidence
James Comey
that the tape had been modified.[235][236]
In February 2017, it was reported that White House officials had asked the FBI to issue a
statement that there had been no contact between Trump associates and Russian intelligence sources during the 2016 campaign. The
FBI did not make the requested statement, and observers noted that the request violated established procedures about contact between
the White House and the FBI regarding pending investigations.[237] After Comey revealed in March that the FBI was investigating the
possibility of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Trump phoned Coats and Director of National Security Admiral Michael
S. Rogers and asked them to publicly state there was no evidence of collusion between his campaign and the Russians.[228][238][239] Both
Coats and Rogers believed that the request was inappropriate, though not illegal, and did not make the requested statement. The two
exchanged notes about the incident, and Rogers made a contemporary memo to document the request.[238][239] The White House effort
to push back publicly on the Russia probe reportedly also included requests to senior lawmakers with access to classified intelligence
about Russia, including Senator Richard Burr and Representative Devin Nunes, the chairmen of the Senate and House intelligence
committees, respectively.[240]
In May 2017, it was reported that Comey took contemporaneous notes immediately after an Oval
Office conversation with Trump on February 14, 2017, in which Trump is described as attempting
to persuade Comey to drop the FBI investigation into Flynn.[241][242] The memo notes that Trump
said, "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I
hope you can let this go." Comey made no commitments to Trump on the subject. The White
House denied the version of events in the memo, but an FBI agent's contemporaneous notes are
widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.[243] In testimony to the Senate
Intelligence Committee on June 8, Comey gave a detailed report on the February 14
conversation, including Trump's suggestion that he should "let go" the Flynn investigation. Comey
said he "took it as a direction… I took it as, this is what he wants me to do." He added that it was
"a very disturbing thing, very concerning," and that he discussed the incident with other FBI
leaders, including whether an obstruction of justice investigation should be opened.[244][245]
Comey created similar memos about all nine conversations he had with the president.[246]
Mueller's office has the Comey memos, but on February 2, 2018, a federal judge denied multiple
Ex-FBI Director Comey memo
Freedom of Information Act requests to make the documents public, at least for now.[247]
The FBI launched an investigation of Trump for obstruction of justice a few days after the May 9
firing of Comey.[248] The special prosecutor's office took over the obstruction of justice investigation and has reportedly interviewed
Director of National Intelligence Coats, Director of the National Security Agency Rogers, and Deputy Director of the NSA Richard
Ledgett.[248][249][250] ABC News reported in June that Mueller was gathering preliminary information about possible obstruction of justice,
but a full-scale investigation had not been launched.[251] On June 16, Trump tweeted: "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director
by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt."[252] However, Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow said Trump's tweet was referring
to the June 14 Washington Post report that he was under investigation for obstruction of justice,[248] and that Trump has not actually
been notified of any investigation.[253][254]
The New York Times and Los Angeles Times reported on September 20, 2017, that Mueller's office had requested information from the
White House regarding an Oval Office meeting President Trump had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian foreign
minister Sergey Lavrov on May 10, 2017, during which Trump reportedly said that firing Comey had relieved "great pressure" on
him.[255][256][257]
On January 23, 2018, The Washington Post reported that Robert Mueller sought to question President Donald Trump about the Flynn
and Comey departures.[258]
The Washington Post also reported on January 23, 2018, that Mueller's office is interested in a May 2017 Oval Office conversation
between Trump and Andrew McCabe, days after McCabe had automatically become acting director of the FBI when Trump dismissed
Comey, allegedly for not pledging loyalty to the president. During this conversation, Trump reportedly asked McCabe for whom he had
voted in the 2016 presidential election. McCabe, a lifelong Republican,[259] replied that he had not voted in that election.[260] On January
24, 2018, Trump denied—or did not remember—asking McCabe about his vote.[261] Like Comey, McCabe also took contemporaneous
notes of his conversations with Trump, which are reportedly now in the possession of Mueller's office.[262]
The New York Times reported on January 23, 2018, that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned the preceding week by Mueller's
investigators.[263] Trump previously expressed frustration that Sessions had recused himself from the investigation and not prevented a
Special Counsel from being appointed, stating that he would not have appointed Sessions had he known that would happen.[264] Multiple
episodes have been reported in which Trump has threatened to dismiss Sessions, or Sessions has tendered his resignation.[265][266] The
Washington Post reported on February 28, 2018, that the Mueller investigation has been examining a period of time during the summer
of 2017 when Trump seemed determined to drive Sessions from his job, to determine "whether those efforts were part of a months-long
pattern of attempted obstruction of justice."[267] Sessions' departure would allow Trump to appoint another attorney general who is not
restrained by recusal. The New York Times reported on May 29, 2018, that the Mueller investigation is examining a previously
unreported March 2017 episode when Trump attempted to persuade Sessions to reverse his recusal, suggesting that the investigation
into possible obstruction of justice was broader than previously understood. The questions Mueller's office had previously provided
Trump's attorneys for an interview with the president included, "What efforts did you make to try to get [Sessions] to change his mind
[about recusal]?"[268][233]
USA Today and The New York Times reported on January 31, 2018, that Mueller's office is expected to question Mark Corallo, the former
spokesman for President Trump's legal team, about his reported concerns that the president and his longtime aide Hope Hicks might
have sought to obstruct justice. Corallo reportedly plans to tell investigators that Hicks told President Trump on a conference call that the
Trump Jr. emails regarding his meeting with Russians "will never get out." Hicks' attorney denied the allegation.[269][270] Mueller's
investigators reportedly interviewed Hicks in early December 2017.[271] Corallo had resigned from the Trump team in July 2017,
reportedly because he became concerned that the president had obstructed justice.[272]
Bloomberg News reported on March 12, 2018, that the obstruction of justice aspect of the investigation is near completion and that
Mueller may set it aside to conclude other aspects, such as collusion and hacking.[5]
The New York Times reported on March 28, 2018, that in 2017, as the Mueller investigation was
building its cases against Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, former Trump attorney John M. Dowd
broached the idea of presidential pardons of the men with their attorneys. The Times reported
this might have indicated concerns by Trump's legal team about what the men might reveal to
investigators if they agreed to cooperate with the investigation in exchange for leniency. Although
legal opinions vary as to whether this discussion alone would constitute obstruction of justice,
prosecutors might present it as part of a pattern of activity that points to a conspiracy to thwart
the investigation.[273] CBS News reported on March 28, 2018, that Manafort is declining a plea
deal and proceeding to trial because he is expecting a pardon from Trump, citing "legal sources
with knowledge of his strategy."[274]
In a January 2018 letter to Mueller, Trump's attorneys asserted that Trump cannot unlawfully
obstruct justice because the Constitution grants him full authority over all federal investigations
and he can "if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon."[275][276]
Trump requested and received the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions the day after Superseding indictment of Paul
Manafort and Rick Gates alleging tax
the 2018 midterm elections, following months of criticizing Sessions for recusing himself from
evasion and bank fraud
overseeing the Mueller investigation, stating in July 2017, "if he was going to recuse himself, he
should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else."[277] Trump
appointed Matthew Whitaker, Sessions' chief of staff since September 2017, as Acting Attorney General. While Whitaker was Sessions'
chief of staff, White House chief of staff John Kelly described him as the West Wing's "eyes and ears" in the DOJ, which Trump
considered hostile to him.[97] Prior to joining the Justice Department, Whitaker had publicly criticized the Mueller investigation on several
occasions, asserting it was "going too far," referring to it as a "lynch mob," and suggested it could be impeded by cutting its budget.[96]
Trump had seen Whitaker's supportive commentaries on CNN during the summer of 2017 and that July Whitaker was interviewed by
White House counsel Don McGahn to join the Trump legal team as an "attack dog" against Mueller.[88] During an interview with The Daily
Caller on November 14, 2018, Trump was asked who he might be considering to assume the permanent attorney general position,
mentioning Whitaker. Unprompted, Trump stated, "as far as I’m concerned this is an investigation that should have never been
brought...It's an illegal investigation."[278][279] Days after Whitaker's appointment, Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, asserted that Whitaker's appointment was "part of a pattern of obstruction" of the Mueller investigation and that
Whitaker would be the first witness called to testify before the Committee.[280] In an interview aired on November 18, 2018, Trump
asserted he was unaware of Whitaker's previous criticisms of the Mueller investigation, later referring to one of Whitaker's previous
statements, saying "There is no collusion, he happened to be right." Trump added, "I think he's very well aware politically. I think he's
astute politically ... He's going to do what's right."[281]
According to a letter from Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr, no conclusion was reached in the Mueller Report on whether
or not Trump obstructed justice. As of March 24, 2019, the report itself has yet to be released.[31]
Financial investigations [ edit ]
The Special Counsel investigation has expanded to include Trump's and his associates' financial
ties to Russia. The FBI is reviewing the financial records of Trump himself, The Trump
Organization, Trump's family members, and his campaign staff, including Trump's real estate
activities, which had been under federal scrutiny before the campaign. According to CNN,
financial crimes may be easier for investigators to prove than any crimes stemming directly from
collusion with Russia.[282] Campaign staff whose finances are under investigation include
Manafort, Flynn, Carter Page, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. At a New York real estate
conference in September 2008, Donald Trump Jr. stated: "And in terms of high-end product influx
into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say
in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money
pouring in from Russia."[283][284] McClatchy reported on April 6, 2018, that Mueller's investigators
that week arrived unannounced at the home of an unnamed business associate of the Trump
Organization who had worked on foreign deals for the company in recent years. The investigators
had warrants for electronic records and to compel sworn testimony, and were reported to be
Prosecution's statement of Michael
particularly interested in transactions involving Trump's attorney Michael Cohen.[285] Flynn's offense
Transactions under investigation include Russian purchases of Trump apartments, a SoHo
development with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, transactions
with the Bank of Cyprus, real estate financing organized by Kushner, and Trump's sale of a Florida mansion for $30 million over its
appraised value to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev.[286][287] The special counsel team has contacted Deutsche Bank, which is the
main banking institution doing business with The Trump Organization.[288] The Wall Street Journal reported on December 6, 2017, that
Deutsche Bank received a subpoena from Mueller's office earlier that fall concerning people or entities affiliated with President
Trump.[289] The original Journal story incorrectly reported that Trump's records had been subpoenaed, which The New York Times
reported on April 10, 2018, prompted Trump to tell his advisers "in no uncertain terms" that the Mueller investigation must be shut down,
before Mueller's office advised his attorneys the report was inaccurate.[290]
Kushner Properties—from which Jared Kushner resigned as CEO in early 2017 to serve as a
senior advisor in the Trump White House—purchased the office tower located at 666 Fifth
Avenue in Manhattan in 2007, just before Manhattan real estate prices fell in the Great
Recession. The property has since experienced financial difficulties that the company has been
attempting to resolve with new financing, without success, before the property's $1.2 billion
mortgage comes due in February 2019. This effort has reportedly been complicated by Trump's
election, which has caused potential lenders to avoid appearances of conflicts of interest.[291]
The matter has raised the interest of investigators who are looking at Kushner's December 2016
meeting with Sergei Gorkov, who said in a statement issued by his bank that he met with Kushner
in his capacity as the then-chief executive of Kushner Properties,[292] while Kushner assured
Congress in a July 24, 2017, statement that the meeting did not involve "any discussion about my
companies, business transactions, real estate projects, loans, banking arrangements or any
private business of any kind."[291] CNN reported on February 20, 2018, that Mueller's
investigation has expanded beyond Kushner's contacts with Russia and now includes his efforts
to secure financing for Kushner Properties from other foreign investors during the presidential Jared Kushner, former CEO of
transition.[293] Kushner Properties sold the 666 Fifth Avenue building in summer 2018.[294] Kushner Properties and senior advisor
to President Trump
Mueller took over an existing money laundering investigation into former Trump campaign
chairman Manafort. On October 30, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted Manafort and his
associate Rick Gates on charges including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of
foreign bank and financial accounts, being an unregistered agent of foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, and false
statements.[295] Manafort's financial activities are also being investigated by the Senate and House intelligence committees, the New York
Attorney General, and the Manhattan District Attorney.[296]
The Special Counsel will be able to access Trump's tax returns, which has "especially disturbed" Trump according to The Washington
Post. Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, as presidential candidates normally do, has been politically controversial since his
presidential campaign.[297]
The Special Counsel is also investigating whether the Central Bank of Russia's deputy governor, Aleksandr Torshin, illegally funneled
money through the National Rifle Association to benefit Trump's campaign.[298] On May 16, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee
released a report[299] stating it had obtained "a number of documents that suggest the Kremlin used the National Rifle Association as a
means of accessing and assisting Mr. Trump and his campaign" through Torshin and his assistant Mariia Butina, and that "The Kremlin
may also have used the NRA to secretly fund Mr. Trump's campaign."[300] The NRA reported spending $30 million to support the Trump
campaign—triple what they devoted to backing Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Most of that money was spent by
an arm of the NRA that is not required to disclose its donors. Torshin, a lifetime NRA member, reportedly sought to broker a meeting
between Trump and Vladimir Putin in May 2016, but was rebuffed by Kushner. Torshin claims to have met with Trump at a Nashville NRA
event in April 2015; he tweeted about the encounter in August, saying that Trump is "a proponent of traditional family values".[301] Torshin
spoke with Donald Trump Jr. during a gala event at the NRA's national gathering in Kentucky in May 2016, which Trump Jr.'s attorney
Alan Futerfas characterized as "all gun-related small talk." Spanish authorities have implicated Torshin in money laundering and have
described him as a "godfather" in Taganskaya, a major Russian criminal organization.[298][302] On July 14, 2018, Butina was charged by
the national security unit of the Justice Department with being an unregistered Russian agent who had attempted to create a
backchannel of communications between American Republicans/conservatives and Russian officials by infiltrating the NRA, the National
Prayer Breakfast and conservative religious organizations.[303][304][305][306] On December 13, 2018, she pleaded guilty to conspiring with
Torshin in this effort.[307] The New York Times reported on July 17, 2018, that Torshin was scheduled to visit the White House in 2017, but
the meeting was canceled after a national security aide noted Torshin was under investigation by Spanish authorities for money
laundering.[308]
CNN reported on April 4, 2018, that Mueller's investigators have been examining whether Russian oligarchs directly or indirectly provided
illegal cash donations to the Trump campaign and inauguration. Investigators were examining whether oligarchs invested in American
companies or think tanks having political action committees connected to the campaign, as well as money funneled through American
straw donors to the Trump campaign and inaugural fund. At least one oligarch was detained and his electronic devices searched as he
arrived at a New York area airport on his private jet in early 2018; subsequent reporting by The New York Times identified the man as
Viktor Vekselberg.[309][310] Vekselberg was questioned about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments made to Michael Cohen after
the election, through Columbus Nova, the American affiliate of Vekselberg's Renova Group.[311] Another oligarch was also detained on a
recent trip to the United States, but it is unclear if he was searched. Investigators reportedly have also asked a third oligarch who has not
traveled to the United States to voluntarily provide documents and an interview.[citation needed]
The New York Times reported on April 9, 2018, that the Mueller investigation is examining a $150,000 donation Victor Pinchuk, a
Ukrainian billionaire, made in September 2015 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute appearance Trump made
via video link to a conference in Kiev. This transaction came to light in documents the Trump Organization provided to investigators
pursuant to a subpoena earlier in 2018. The donation, the largest the Foundation received in 2015 other than from Trump himself, was
solicited by his attorney, Michael Cohen. The Times reported that the subpoena had demanded "documents, emails and other
communications about several Russians, including some whose names have not been publicly tied to Mr. Trump."[312]
Documents acquired by The New York Times in March 2019 showed that search warrants for Michael Cohen's emails were obtained by
Mueller investigators in July 2017, with one warrant referencing a scheme “to make an illegal campaign contribution in October 2016 to
then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.” Nineteen pages of the documents relating to an "illegal campaign contribution scheme" were
fully redacted.[313][314]
Cohen raids [ edit ]
On April 9, 2018, based on a referral to United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) from the special
counsel, the FBI raided the New York City office, residence, hotel suite, and safe-deposit boxes of Michael Cohen, seizing records related
to several topics.[19] The FBI seized Cohen's computers, phones, and personal financial records, including tax returns, as part of the no-
knock raid on his office in 30 Rockefeller Plaza.[315] CNN cited unnamed sources saying the search warrant was "very broad in terms of
items sought" and that it included bank records.[316]
The warrant was personally approved by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and carried out by the public corruption unit of the
SDNY. Geoffrey Berman, the interim head of the SDNY, was recused from the matter; a Trump appointee, he had worked as a volunteer
attorney on the Trump campaign.[317] Further, due to the sensitive nature of the raid and the attorney–client privilege, a special "taint"
team is required to review the documents to carefully separate out privileged and protected documents that may have been seized in the
raid to ensure those inadmissible documents are not passed on to investigators.[19] Legal blogger and former federal prosecutor Ken
White of Popehat published a New York Times op-ed giving some background on the DOJ procedures required to approve such a raid,
saying the search "suggests that the prosecutors believe they can convince a judge that communications between Mr. Trump and Mr.
Cohen fall under the crime-fraud exception" of attorney-client privilege. It called the raid "highly dangerous" for both Cohen and
Trump.[318] White posted further analysis on Popehat,[319] citing section 9-13.320 [sic] [recte 9-13.420] of the United States Attorneys'
Manual, which sets the guidelines and regulations for searches of attorney premises.[320]
Lobbyists [ edit ]
In August 2017, Mueller's team issued grand jury subpoenas to officials in six firms, including
lobbying firm Podesta Group and Mercury LLC with regard to activities on behalf of a public-
relations campaign for a pro-Russian Ukrainian organization called European Centre for a
Modern Ukraine. The public relations effort was headed by Paul Manafort, and took place from
2012 to 2014.[321][322][323][324] The Podesta Group is run by Tony Podesta, and Mercury LLC is
headed by Vin Weber, a former GOP congressman.[325] Mueller is investigating whether the firms
violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The Podesta Group announced in
November 2017 that it would be permanently closing, with many of its employees moving to
Cogent Strategies, a new firm founded by Podesta Group CEO Kimberley Fritts.[326]
Trump as a subject of investigation [ edit ] Tony Podesta, co-founder of the

now-defunct Podesta Group
From the beginning of his presidency Trump had requested assurances that he was not
personally under investigation. FBI Director Comey told him so privately on three occasions but
refused to make a public comment to that effect.[327] In his letter dismissing Comey, Trump thanked Comey for "informing me, on three
separate occasions, that I am not under investigation."[327][328] Comey later confirmed that this was true.[329]
In March 2018, Mueller's office reportedly informed Trump's attorneys that the president is not a "criminal target" but remains a "subject"
of the continuing investigation. Trump's advisers were reported to be split in their interpretation of this, with some believing it was an
indication that his legal exposure was low, while others expressed concern that Mueller was inducing him to agree to a personal interview,
which his attorneys have discouraged him from doing for fear he might perjure himself and thus change his status from subject to target.
The Post reported that Mueller also advised the attorneys that he is "preparing a report about the president's actions while in office and
potential obstruction of justice."[330] The Post referenced Justice Department guidelines,[331] which explain:
A "target" is a person as to whom the prosecutor or the grand jury has substantial evidence linking him or her to the
commission of a crime and who, in the judgment of the prosecutor, is a putative defendant.
A "subject" of an investigation is a person whose conduct is within the scope of the grand jury's investigation.
Trump told reporters on January 24, 2018, that he was "looking forward" to testifying under oath to the Mueller investigation, perhaps in
"two or three weeks," but added that it was "subject to my lawyers and all of that."[332] The Wall Street Journal reported on February 25,
2018, that Trump's lawyers are considering ways for him to testify, provided the questions he faces are limited in scope and do not test
his recollections in ways that amount to a potential perjury trap. Among options they are considering are providing written answers to
Mueller's questions and having the president give limited face-to-face testimony.[333] The Washington Post reported on March 19, 2018,
that Trump's attorneys provided Mueller's office "written descriptions that chronicle key moments under investigation in hopes of curtailing
the scope of a presidential interview."[334] In May 2018, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Politico that Mueller's team has rejected the
proposal of providing a written testimony instead of an oral interview.[335] Trump ultimately was not personally interviewed by the special
counsel.[336]
Other topics [ edit ]
CNN reported on February 27, 2018, that Mueller's investigators had recently been asking witnesses about Trump's activities in Russia
before the campaign, including the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow; unsuccessful discussions to build a Trump Tower Moscow;
and the possibility of compromising information that Russians may have or claim to have about Trump.[337]
The Intercept reported on March 2, 2018, that Jared Kushner and his father Charles Kushner made a proposal to Qatar's finance
minister, Ali Sharif Al Emadi, in April 2017 to secure investment into 666 5th Avenue asset in his family's company's portfolio, when his
request was not fulfilled, a group of Middle Eastern countries, with Jared Kushner's backing, initiated a diplomatic assault that culminated
in a blockade of Qatar. Kushner specifically undermined the efforts by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to bring an end to the
standoff.[338]
The New York Times reported on March 3, 2018, that the Mueller investigation had been examining possible efforts by the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) to buy political influence by directing money to the Trump campaign. Investigators have recently interviewed Lebanese-
American businessman George Nader, and other witnesses, about this matter. Nader was reportedly a frequent White House visitor
during 2017 and investigators have inquired about any policymaking role he may have had.[339] The Federal Election Campaign Act
prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to American elections.[340] The New York Times reported on March 6, 2018, that Nader is
cooperating with the Mueller investigation and had testified before a grand jury during the preceding week. Investigators have examined
a meeting around January 11, 2017, in the Seychelles that was convened by the UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
(known as "MBZ"), which Nader attended. Also present at that meeting were Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of state-owned Russian Direct
Investment Fund, who is close to Vladimir Putin; and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a major Trump donor and an informal advisor to the
Trump transition. UAE officials reportedly believed that Prince was representing the Trump transition and Dmitriev was representing
Putin.[109]
An aircraft owned by Andrei Skoch—a Russian billionaire subject to U.S. sanctions—arrived in the Seychelles a day before Prince himself
did.[341] The Washington Post had reported on April 3, 2017, that American, European and Arab officials said the Seychelles meeting
was "part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump."
Prince denied in November 30, 2017, House Intelligence Committee testimony that he had represented the Trump transition or that the
meeting involved any back-channel.[109][342][343] The Washington Post reported on March 7, 2018, that Mueller has gathered evidence
that contradicts Prince,[344] and ABC News reported on April 6, 2018, that Nader had met with Prince at a Manhattan hotel days before
the Seychelles meeting and later provided him with biographical information about Dmitriev.[345] CNN reported on March 6, 2018, that
Nader had been detained and questioned by the FBI at Dulles International Airport as he returned from a trip abroad on January 17,
2018.[citation needed]
Agents with search warrants copied the contents of Nader's electronic devices and served him with a subpoena to appear before a grand
jury on January 19. CNN also reported that Nader had attended a December 2016 meeting in New York attended by MBZ; UAE
ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba; and at least three Trump senior associates: Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, and Jared
Kushner.[346] The Wall Street Journal reported on April 2, 2018, that Mueller's investigators have inquired about the work done by a
private consulting company, Wikistrat, on behalf of the UAE. One of the firm's co-founders, Joel Zamel, has reportedly been asked about
his work with certain clients and his business relationship with George Nader. The Journal reported that, like Nader, Zamel had tried to
forge a relationship with the new Trump administration.[347]
The New York Times reported on April 4, 2018, that Nader has a history of dealings with Russia dating back to at least 2012, when he
brokered a $4.2 billion arms deal between Russia and Iraq, and attended an invitation-only conference in Moscow organized by close
associates of Vladimir Putin. Nader has reportedly traveled frequently to Russia on behalf of the UAE, accompanying MBZ on many of
those trips, and has had his photo taken with Putin. Nader has reportedly received at least partial immunity for his cooperation with the
Mueller investigation. The Times also reported that Joel Zamel had been stopped at Reagan International Airport in February 2018, had
his electronic devices briefly seized, and later testified before the Mueller grand jury about his relationship with Nader.[348] The New York
Times reported on May 19, 2018, that Trump Jr. met with Nader, Prince and Zamel in Trump Tower on August 3, 2016. Nader reportedly
told Trump Jr. the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE were eager to help his father win the election. According to Trump Jr.'s
attorney Alan Futerfas, Zamel pitched a social media manipulation campaign from his Israeli company Psy-Group, although Zamel's
attorney Marc Mukasey denied this. Trump Jr. reportedly responded favorably according to one source, although Futerfas denied this.
Nader subsequently had frequent meetings with Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner. After Trump's election, Nader paid
Zamel a large sum of money of up to $2 million.[349] The Times reported that Prince had arranged the August 2016 meeting; Prince had
stated in his November 30, 2017, testimony to the House Intelligence Committee that he had no formal communications or contact, nor
any unofficial role, with the Trump campaign.[350] The Times reported on October 8, 2018, that sometime after March 2016 Rick Gates
had solicited Psy-Group to present proposals for social media manipulation and opposition research against Trump's primary opponents
and Hillary Clinton. Gates reportedly was uninterested in the Psy-Group proposals, as social media strategy was being developed inside
the Trump campaign, and there is no evidence the Trump campaign pursued the Psy-Group proposals. The Mueller investigation
obtained copies of the proposals and questioned Psy-Group employees.[351]
Axios reported on March 4, 2018, that it had seen a grand jury subpoena that Mueller's office sent to a witness in February 2018. Axios
did not name the witness. The subpoena reportedly demands all communications, from November 1, 2015, to date, that the witness sent
or received "regarding" Trump; Carter Page; Corey Lewandowski; Hope Hicks; Keith Schiller; Michael Cohen; Paul Manafort; Rick Gates;
Roger Stone; and Steve Bannon.[352] A subsequent report by NBC News stated that the subpoena also encompasses "work papers,
telephone logs, and other documents."[353] On March 5, 2018, the witness was identified as Sam Nunberg, who served as a
communications consultant on the Trump campaign until August 2, 2015, and later as an informal adviser. Nunberg stated that he had
been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury on March 9, 2018, but he would refuse to appear or provide any of the
subpoenaed documents.[354][355] After multiple defiant television appearances on March 5, 2018, Nunberg indicated the next day that he
planned to comply with the subpoena.[356]
The New Yorker reported on March 5, 2018, that Christopher Steele spoke with Mueller's investigators in September 2017. The
magazine asserted that Steele discussed another document he had authored in November 2016—after the Steele dossier—that
describes discussions "a senior Russian official" had heard inside the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: that the Kremlin had asked
Trump "through unspecified channels" to not appoint Mitt Romney as Secretary of State.[357][358] As a presidential candidate in 2012,
Romney described Russia as "our number one geopolitical foe."[359] After publicly considering Romney as Secretary of State, Trump
ultimately selected Rex Tillerson, who has a long history of business dealings in Russia and was awarded the Order of Friendship by
Vladimir Putin in 2013.[360]
The Washington Post reported on March 6, 2018, that Mueller's office had requested documents
and interviewed witnesses regarding activities of Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime personal
lawyer. Investigators are reported to be interested in at least two episodes relating to Russian
interests, including the proposed construction of Trump Tower Moscow and "a Russia-friendly
peace proposal for Ukraine that was delivered to Cohen by an Ukrainian lawmaker one week after
Trump took office."[361] The New York Times reported, on January 10, 2019, that Mueller
investigators, and other federal prosecutors, were investigating the activities of over a dozen
Russia-aligned Ukrainian political and business figures who attended the Trump inauguration,
ostensibly promoting a pro-Russian "peace plan" for Ukraine that included the lifting of sanctions
against Russia. Andrey Artemenko, a Ukrainian politician who attended the Trump inaugural, was
interviewed by the FBI and the Mueller grand jury, having met, days after the inaugural, with
Trump attorney Michael Cohen and former Trump business associate Felix Sater, in New York, to
present a proposal. Cohen hand-delivered Artemenko's proposal to Michael Flynn one week
before Flynn resigned as national security advisor.[362]
Senate Finance Committee report
The New York Times reported on March 7, 2018, that the Mueller investigation is aware of on Michael Cohen's financial crimes
conversations Trump had with two witnesses regarding their testimony with investigators. In one
conversation, Trump asked White House counsel Don McGahn to issue a statement denying a
story[363] The Times published in January 2018. That story reported that McGahn told investigators Trump had ordered him to direct the
Justice Department to dismiss Mueller. McGahn never issued the statement and reportedly told Trump that the president had, in fact, told
him to have Mueller dismissed. The New York Times reported on August 18, 2018, that McGahn had been cooperating extensively with
the Mueller investigation for several months and that he and his lawyer had become concerned that Trump "had decided to let Mr.
McGahn take the fall for decisions that could be construed as obstruction of justice, like the Comey firing, by telling the special counsel
that he was only following shoddy legal advice from Mr. McGahn."[364] Trump also asked his former chief of staff Reince Priebus how his
interview with investigators had gone and whether they were "nice." The Times reported that although "legal experts" thought the
conversations probably did not constitute witness tampering, witnesses and attorneys who became aware of the conversations reported
them to Mueller.[365]
The New York Times reported on March 15, 2018, that the Mueller investigation had subpoenaed documents from The Trump
Organization, including all documents related to Russia. Although the full scope of the subpoena was not clear, it was the first known time
investigators demanded documents from Trump's businesses.[366] The Los Angeles Times reported the same day that the special
counsel's office had also subpoenaed the Trump campaign for documents.[367]
The Daily Beast reported on March 22, 2018, that Mueller had taken over the probe into Guccifer 2.0 from the FBI.[368]
NBC News reported on March 30, 2018, that Ted Malloch, a London-based American professor and author who worked with the Trump
campaign, had been detained and questioned by the FBI two days earlier as he arrived at Boston Logan Airport after a flight from
London. He was served with a subpoena to appear for questioning by Mueller's investigators on April 13, and presented with a warrant to
have his phone seized and searched. Malloch told NBC in an email that FBI agents asked him a variety of questions, including about
Roger Stone, author Jerome Corsi, and WikiLeaks.[369] CNN reported that Malloch has written a forthcoming book alleging a "deep state"
within the United States government fabricated the Steele dossier to destroy Trump.[370] Corsi was subpoenaed for questioning by
Mueller's investigators in September 2018, and by November he was facing perjury charges. That month, a draft court filing showed Corsi
and Stone had exchanged emails in summer 2016 indicating their knowledge of impending email "dumps" by Wikileaks. In one email,
Stone directed Corsi to contact Assange, which Corsi told investigators he had ignored, although investigators found he had passed the
directive to an associate in London, whom Corsi later identified as Malloch.[371]
Michael R. Caputo, a former communications adviser for the Trump campaign, was interviewed by Mueller's investigators on May 2, 2018.
Caputo was recruited to the Trump campaign by Paul Manafort and had previously worked with Russian politicians.[372][373] A long-time
associate of Roger Stone, Caputo stated after his interview, "It's clear they are still really focused on Russia collusion. They know more
about the Trump campaign than anyone who ever worked there."[374]
CNN reported on May 5, 2018, that Mueller's investigators had interviewed Trump's close friend and inaugural committee chairman Tom
Barrack in December 2017, asking him primarily about his relationship with Manafort and Gates, although The Associated Press reported
the interview was broader and included campaign finance matters.[375][376]
On May 9, 2018, CNBC reported that Mueller's office had contacted telecommunications giant AT&T regarding payments totalling at least
$200,000, but possibly as high as $600,000,[377] made to a company founded by Michael Cohen in order to gain "insights" into the
incoming Trump administration.[378] An AT&T spokesperson said that they had provided all the information requested by the Special
Counsel in November and December 2017.[379]
Glenn R. Simpson, a co-founder of Fusion GPS, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on August 22, 2017, that the FBI told
Christopher Steele—and then Steele told Simpson—that the FBI had "a human source from inside the Trump organization" (and, more
specifically, "an internal Trump campaign source"). Simpson did not indicate when Steele received this information or when he conveyed
it to Simpson.[380] The Washington Post reported on May 8, 2018, that a longtime FBI and CIA informant had provided information about
connections between Russia and the Trump campaign to FBI investigators early in their investigation.[381] This sparked speculation the
FBI had planted a "mole" inside the Trump campaign, although it was not clear that the individual Simpson described is the same
individual described by The Post. The Washington Post reported on May 9, 2018, that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin
Nunes subpoenaed the Justice Department to provide him with all documents regarding the longtime informant; The Post quoted the
subpoena as demanding "all documents referring or related to the individual referenced in Chairman Nunes' April 24, 2018, classified
letter to Attorney General Sessions," although Nunes denied he had referred to any specific individual.[382] The Justice Department
resisted on the grounds that revealing the information could endanger the life of a longtime top-secret informant for the FBI and CIA, and
the Trump White House—with the president's agreement—sided with the Justice Department.[381][383] The New York Times reported on
May 16, 2018, that at least one government informant had met several times with Trump campaign aides Carter Page and George
Papadopolous.[6] The next day, Trump tweeted "Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI 'SPIED ON THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.'"[384]
The Washington Post noted on January 9, 2018, that the source Simpson referenced may not have necessarily been an informant
willingly or directly, or during the campaign, but rather may have become an informant as a result of later becoming implicated in
wrongdoing. Natasha Bertrand, then with Business Insider, reported on January 3, 2018, that a source told her Simpson had been
referring to George Papadopolous, who had first been interviewed by the FBI seven days after Trump's inauguration[223] and whose
cooperation with the FBI—to "provide information regarding any and all matters as to which the Government deems relevant"—began
with his arrest on July 27, 2017, and was not publicly known until his indictment in October 2017.[385][386][387] The New York Times
reported on May 18, 2018, the FBI sent an informant to meet with George Papadopolous in late-summer 2016, and to meet repeatedly
with Carter Page over ensuing months, after the FBI had acquired evidence the two men had suspicious contacts with Russians.[388] The
Washington Post reported the same day the informant first approached Page at a symposium in Britain in July 2016, and in September
2016 invited Papadopolous to London to work on a research paper. Late that summer, the informant also met with Trump campaign co-
chairman Sam Clovis in Northern Virginia.[389] The informant was identified as an American academic who teaches in Britain, but both The
Times and The Post declined to publish his name. NBC News identified him as Stefan Halper.[390]
The Washington Post reported on June 28, 2018, that the Mueller investigation, as well as British investigators, are examining
relationships between the Brexit movement, Russia and the Trump campaign. The Post reported Mueller's investigators had specifically
asked two individuals, including former Trump communications official Michael Caputo, about relationships between Trump associates
and Brexit leader Nigel Farage.[391] Ted Malloch, who had worked with the Trump campaign and was later questioned by Mueller
investigators, was reportedly close to Farage.[392]
ABC News reported on September 20, 2018, that Michael Cohen had been interviewed by Mueller's investigators multiple times since he
pleaded guilty to charges a month earlier. The interviews covered a broad range of topics, including Trump's business dealings with
Russians, alleged collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign and whether Trump or his associates had discussed a pardon of
Cohen with him.[393][394]
In August 2018, a sealed court case was brought before Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the DC District Court, who oversees grand jury
proceedings. The case bounced back and forth between Howell and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals over several weeks, as press
speculation grew that the secret case was related to a witness challenging a Mueller subpoena. CNN reporters observed Mueller
attorneys entering Howell's courtroom in September.[395][396] CNN later confirmed that the case did involve a Mueller subpoena that was
being challenged. The case was heard by a three-judge panel of the Circuit court on December 14, amid such secrecy that the entire
fifth floor of the court building was cleared so reporters could not observe the proceedings or participants.[395] Four days later, the judges
ruled that the plaintiff, an unnamed foreign company, must comply with the subpoena.[397] The company appealed the ruling to the
Supreme Court on December 22, although the Court is not known to hear cases that are completely sealed.[398] The Court denied the
appeal on January 8, 2019.[399]
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal [ edit ]

Main article: Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
The Wall Street Journal reported on December 15, 2017, that Mueller's office had requested and received employee emails from
Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked for the Trump campaign, earlier that year.[400][401] The Washington Post reported
on March 20, 2018, that Christopher Wylie, an employee of Cambridge Analytica until late 2014, said that former Trump campaign CEO
and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon oversaw a 2014 effort at the company (which he co-founded) to gather Facebook data
on millions of Americans and test the effectiveness of anti-establishment messages such as "drain the swamp" and "deep state," which
became major Trump themes after Bannon joined the campaign in August 2016. Views of Russian President Vladimir Putin were also
tested.[402] The Associated Press reported on March 22, 2018, that the special counsel is examining the connections between the
company, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, particularly how voter data may have been used in battleground
states.[403]
Several news agencies reported on April 4, 2018, that the security of 87 million Facebook users' private data had been shared, without
their consent, via Cambridge Analytica, influencing voters and helping Trump win the 2016 election.[404][405][406] The New York Times
reported on May 15, 2018, that the Justice Department and FBI were investigating Cambridge Analytica, although it was unclear if
Mueller's office was involved in the investigation.[407]
Cost of investigation [ edit ]
By December 2018, the investigation had cost approximately $25 million but gained approximately $48 million. More than half of the cost
of the investigation was for personnel compensation and benefits. The gains were accrued primarily by uncovering unpaid taxes by
targets in the investigation, seizing assets and collecting fines.[25]
Criminal charges [ edit ]
Main article: Criminal charges brought in the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)
The Special Counsel indicted 34 people—seven U.S. nationals, 26 Russian nationals, and one Dutch national—and three Russian
organizations. Two additional individuals were charged as a result of referrals to other FBI offices.[408]
Charges have been filed against Trump campaign members George Papadopoulos, Paul
Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen. Charges were filed against American
Richard Pinedo who assisted the Russians and lawyer Alex van der Zwaan as well as Paul
Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik. Also indicted were Russia-based Internet Research
Agency and related organizations and individuals directed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, and a group of
Russian hackers referred to as Viktor Netyksho, et al.[409]
Following the guilty plea of Michael Cohen for lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, ranking
member Mark Warner stated the Committee had made multiple criminal referrals of individuals to
Mueller and continues to examine witness testimonies for other false statements.[410] The
Democrat-controlled House Intelligence Committee voted in February 2019 to refer dozens of
witness testimony transcripts and thousands of other documents to Mueller's office. Committee
Republicans had blocked Democrat efforts to release the documents to Mueller's office when
Republicans controlled the Committee in 2018.[411]
Manafort speaking to media at the
On January 25, 2019, Roger Stone, a long time advisor to Donald Trump, was arrested by the 2016 Republican National Convention
FBI at a pre-dawn raid in Florida.[412] The indictment filed by the Office of the Special Counsel
contained 7 charges, including obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and lying to investigators in regard to the investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 US election and their involvement with WikiLeaks.[413] In the charging document, prosecutors alleged
that, after the first Wikileaks release of hacked DNC emails in July 2016, “a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact
STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information [WikiLeaks] had regarding the Clinton Campaign. STONE
thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by [WikiLeaks].” The indictment also alleged
that Stone had discussed Wikileaks releases with multiple senior Trump campaign officials. By the time of those contacts, it had been
publicly reported that the DNC emails had been hacked by Russians and provided to Wikileaks.[414][415]
Conclusions [ edit ]
On March 22, 2019, the special counsel concluded their investigation and sent the final report to the Department of Justice. It is up to the
current Attorney General, William Barr, whether or not to release the full report. Barr has faced bipartisan pressure to release the full
report to the public in accordance to DOJ policies.[416]
On March 24, 2019, Barr sent a four-page letter to Congress detailing the special counsel's findings. The letter was split into 2 sections:
The first section discussed Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the second section explored the question
of whether Trump obstructed justice. In the first section, Barr explained that the special counsel "did not find that the Trump campaign or
anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its effort to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election."[226][227] Barr
did highlight that the special counsel found "two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election."[226] Barr stated that Mueller reached
no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice; he quoted the special counsel as saying "while this report does not conclude that the
President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."[226][227] Barr goes on to say the report identified "no actions that, in our
judgement, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent".
Barr additionally stated the Justice Department would be "in a position to move forward expeditiously" in releasing information after
identifying material which by law cannot be made public.[34]
Reactions [ edit ]
Main article: Reactions to the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)
Mueller's appointment to oversee the investigation immediately garnered widespread support from Democrats and from some
Republicans in Congress.[417][418] Over time, some conservatives, including political commentators Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, began to criticize the investigation, asserting that Mueller should be dismissed and the
investigation closed.[419][420][421] Sean Hannity, a strong supporter of Trump, became a vocal and persistent critic of the Mueller
investigation on his Fox News television show, Hannity, and syndicated radio program, The Sean Hannity Show. He has called the
investigation a "witch hunt" and described Mueller as "corrupt, abusively biased and political."[422][423] Trump himself has, of February
2019, publicly criticized people or groups related to the investigations into links between Trump associates and Russia over 1,000 times
during his presidency.[424]
Throughout 2017 and 2018, Trump and his allies in Congress and the media promulgated a series of false narratives to assert that the
FBI, Justice Department and Mueller investigation have been engaged in an elaborate, corrupt conspiracy against Trump. Among other
things, Trump characterized the Mueller investigation as a "rigged Russia witch hunt," while prominent Trump supporter Sean Hannity has
described it as "the biggest corruption scandal in American history."[425] On May 29, 2018, Trump went so far as to assert that the Mueller
investigation intended to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections,[426] an accusation Hannity reinforced on his Fox News show that night,
saying Mueller "wants to derail many pro-Trump Republicans in the midterms."[425]
In June 2017, Trump reportedly told McGahn to fire Mueller, but was persuaded to back off from this course of action.[363][427][428] Also in
June 2017, Trump reportedly instructed his aides to start a campaign for his administration and his Republican allies to discredit potential
witnesses in the investigation, including FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Jim Rybicki, and James Baker. The three men had been identified
by Comey as his confidants. The instruction was reported in January 2018 by Foreign Policy. Trump's lead attorney John Dowd disputed
the accuracy of the report.[429]
On March 17, 2018, Trump appeared to abandon his attorneys' advice to avoid directly criticizing the Mueller investigation, tweeting that
the "Mueller probe should never have been started" and that it was a "WITCH HUNT!" He also claimed that "there was tremendous
leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State."[430] The next day, he questioned how "fair" it was that "the
Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans". Trump did not note that
Mueller himself is a Republican, as is the man who appointed him, Rod Rosenstein—who was appointed by Trump.[431] This was the first
time he had criticized Mueller by name, alarming many prominent Republicans, who cautioned Trump not to criticize Mueller or give any
appearance that he was contemplating having Mueller dismissed; they warned of dire repercussions if he did. Presidential lawyer Ty
Cobb later stated that the president "is not considering or discussing" firing Mueller.[432]
In June 2018, Trump asserted, "the appointment of the Special Counsel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!" Dabney Friedrich, a Trump-
appointed judge on the DC District Court ruled the appointment was constitutional, as did a unanimous three-judge panel of the Court of
Appeals for the DC Circuit.[433][434]
On August 1, 2018, President Trump said on Twitter that Attorney General Jeff Sessions "should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now,
before it continues to stain our country any further."[435] In an interview published on September 19, 2018, Trump said that the Mueller
investigation was "beyond a witch hunt" - it is a "hoax" with "17 angry democrats" which has committed "fraudulent" acts.[436]
On January 30, 2019, an FBI court filing revealed that someone located in Russia was also attempting to discredit the Special Counsel
investigation through Twitter, and falsified documents have been used in this effort, according to disinformation researcher Josh
Russell.[21][22][23] The filing by the FBI determined that documents provided to the Concord defense had been altered and posted to the
web illegitimately.[437] The Twitter account posting the non-public information about Concord in late October was for a web page
originating in Russia.[21]
On March 1, 2019, a Time article predicted a disappointing outcome to the investigation for President Trump’s critics, as "due in part to
Trump’s successful disinformation crusade".[438]
In reaction to Barr's summary of Mueller's final conclusions, Trump commented that "It was a complete and total exoneration," adding "It's
a shame our country had to go through this. To be honest it's a shame your President had to go through this."[29] The White House
similarly said that it was a "total and complete exoneration of" President Trump, in spite of Barr's summary quoting Mueller writing that the
report "does not exonerate" Trump of obstruction of justice.[439]
See also [ edit ]
Nobody Is Above the Law, a nationwide protest held on November 8, 2018

Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, a proposed law seeking to protect the investigation
Russian espionage in the United States
RT America, the American arm of the RT network
Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2017)
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Original claim of Russian election involvement [ edit ]

Origin and powers [ edit ]

Original FBI investigations [ edit ]

Oversight and appointment [ edit ]

Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee.

Reasons for appointing a special counsel [ edit ]

Firing of James Comey [ edit ]

Release of findings [ edit ]

Changes to oversight leadership [ edit ]

Grand juries [ edit ]

Grand jury testimony [ edit ]

Legal teams [ edit ]

Russian election interference [ edit ]

Links between Trump associates and Russian officials [ edit ]

[A]ccording to Source #1, Divyekin [who is assessed as Igor Nikolayevich Divyekin]

Alleged collusion between Trump campaign and Russian agents [ edit ]

2016 or earlier [ edit ]

Obstruction of justice [ edit ]

Financial investigations [ edit ]

Cohen raids [ edit ]

Trump as a subject of investigation [ edit ] Tony Podesta, co-founder of the

Other topics [ edit ]

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal [ edit ]

Cost of investigation [ edit ]

Criminal charges [ edit ]

Main article: Reactions to the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)

See also [ edit ]

Nobody Is Above the Law, a nationwide protest held on November 8, 2018

External links [ edit ]

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Personnel Robert Mueller · Rod Rosenstein · Legal teams

V ·T ·E Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections [hide]

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