WASHINGTON: Robert Mueller stayed mum for nearly two years in the face of repeated verbal attacks on his integrity by President Donald Trump and ...
WASHINGTON: Robert Mueller stayed mum for nearly two years in the face of repeated verbal attacks on his integrity by President Donald Trump and his conservative Republican allies in Congress.
They will want to hear from Mueller, for instance, about surveillance warrants issued early in the inquiry, and about how Strzok was dropped from Mueller's team due to politically charged text messages he sent disparaging Trump. Trump and some of his allies in Congress have sought to portray the Russia investigation as a politically motivated"witch hunt" and have assailed the integrity of Mueller and his team of lawyers who conducted the 22-month-long inquiry.
"I know I want answers - I want answers to some specific questions," Arizona Republican Andy Biggs told Reuters, adding that lawmakers need to prevent Mueller from giving long-winded answers to open-ended questions. It documented numerous contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, but did not establish that a criminal conspiracy had occurred.
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