AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Declassified FBI memos reveal bureau opened probe into whether Trump was a Russian agent after Comey firing
The White House released declassified FBI documents showing the bureau launched a counterintelligence investigation into whether President Trump was acting as a Russian agent, a probe that produced no charges and that a later special counsel called deeply flawed. Seven days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, senior bureau officials signed […] The post Declassified FBI memos reveal bureau opened probe into whether Trump was a Russian agent after Comey firing appeared first on American Almanac .
The White House released declassified FBI documents showing the bureau launched a counterintelligence investigation into whether President Trump was acting as a Russian agent, a probe that produced no charges and that a later special counsel called deeply flawed. Seven days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, senior bureau officials signed off on an investigation codenamed "Oxferd Comma." Its stated purpose: to determine whether the sitting president of the United States was "directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation." The investigation ran for nearly two years. It ended on April 9, 2019, with no charges filed against Trump. The memos, released by the White House on…Open