Mueller Tells Congress: FBI 'Currently' Looking Into Issues of Trump Blackmail
Mueller Tells Congress: FBI ‘Currently’ Looking Into Issues of Trump Blackmail
Justin Baragona at the Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-tells-congress-fbi-currently-looking-into-issues-of-trump-blackmail?ref=home
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Towards the end of Robert Mueller’stestimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, the former special counsel indicated that the FBI is currently investigating matters of blackmail and compromise involving those within President Trump’s orbit.
During his allotted time, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) asked the former FBI director noted that because it was outside the Mueller investigation’s purview, the final report did not reach any counterintelligence conclusions regarding “any Trump Administration officials who may be vulnerable to compromise or blackmail by Russia.”
“Those decisions were probably made in the FBI,” Mueller replied. “We referred to the counterintelligence goals of our investigation which were secondary to any criminal wrongdoing we could find.”
Krishnamoorthi, meanwhile, pointed out that the report also did not address whether Russian oligarchs engaged in money laundering through the president’s businesses. “And, of course, your office did not obtain the president’s tax returns which could otherwise show foreign financial services, correct?” Krishnamoorthi asked.
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