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The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019. It was also called the Russia investigation, Mueller probe, and Mueller investigation.
The timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia is split into the following pages: November 8, 2016–January 2017 Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
On March 20, 2017, during public testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, FBI director James Comey confirmed the existence of an FBI investigation into Russian interference and Russian links to the Trump campaign, including the question of whether there had been any coordination between the campaign and the Russians. [230]
Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the counterintelligence investigation undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, into links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia and "whether individuals associated with [Trump's] presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or ...
January 2: In a New York Times op-ed, Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch request that congressional Republicans "release full transcripts of our firm's testimony" and add that "the Steele dossier was not the trigger for the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling." Their sources said the dossier was taken seriously because it ...
January 27: The Department of Defense inspector general closes its investigation opened on April 27, 2017, into whether Flynn received emoluments from Russia and Turkey, and forwards the results to acting Secretary of the Army John E. Whitley for review. [199] The investigation had been put on hold until Trump pardoned Flynn. [199]
The alleged honeypot investigation is said to be separate from a 2016 FBI investigation, known as "Crossfire Hurricane," which investigated whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to ...
Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, disinformation expert Thomas Rid, former National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia Eugene Rumer, and Roy Godson testify as expert witnesses before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the first public hearing in its investigation of Russian influence in U.S. elections.