Trump-Russia Collusion Claims
Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of
Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller conducted a counterintelligence investigation targeting the
2016 Presidential campaign of 2016
Republican Party nominee and eventual
President Donald J. Trump. Given the codename “Crossfire Hurricane,” the probe was established to examine “whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are witting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia.”
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No such evidence was revealed, and the Justice Department did not prosecute any Trump campaign officials for crimes involving alleged coordination with the Russian government or its allies in interference in the 2016 election. The office of Special Counsel Mueller issued a report in March 2019, which concluded “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
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When the investigation concluded, analysts from across the political divide, though most were non-establishment figures, derided the allegation of Trump collusion with Russians as a conspiracy theory. This included left-leaning journalists such as Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of
The Intercept,
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See also: For a more complete list of public figures who promoted collusion claims, please see this resource from the Capital Research Center. Starting at least by July 2016 and continuing through March 2019, the FBI and then the office of Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller...
www.influencewatch.org
The Mueller Report did not find evidence to warrant any criminal indictments regarding offenses having to do with those central accusations—not against Trump, his associates, or any other American. Specifically, the report stated: “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald provided a
succinct summary of the results, asserting that Mueller “did not merely reject the Trump‐Russia conspiracy theories. He obliterated them.” Greenwald added: “Several of the media’s most breathless and hyped ‘bombshells’ were dismissed completely.”
