The U.S. house of representatives, according to a newspaper report that the FBI launched in 2017, investigations against President Donald Trump, because of possible influence in favor of Russia. The democratic Chairman of the judiciary Committee in the Congress chamber, Jerrold Nadler, stated that he would take action.
the measures he wants to understand “both the actions of the President as well as the reaction of the FBI on this behavior better”. He referred to “the serious nature of these allegations”.
It must be ensured that the investigators “would be protected from the increasingly deranged attacks of President Trump,” said Nadler. There is “no reason, integrity or professionalism of the FBI to doubt”. The opposition Democrats have since the mid-term elections in early November, the majority in the house of representatives.
Anonymous sources
The “New York Times” had reported, citing anonymous sources on investigations of the US Federal police FBI against the US President, which had been initiated in accordance with trump’s dismissal of FBI Director James Comey in may 2017. According to the report, the investigation focused on counterintelligence and possible criminal issues.
the counter-espionage was to clarify whether Trump’s work, consciously or unconsciously, to Moscow, and whether he was a threat to national security, it was said in the report. Criminally, it was Comeys dismissal. To made the results of the investigation, the newspaper information is not available. For secret contacts Trumps with Russian government officials, no evidence had been made public.
“Lying scumbag”
Trump had responded on Saturday with a series of angry Twitter messages on the reporting. In his first Tweet, he wrote: “Wow, I’ve just learned from the failing New York Times that the corrupt Ex-leaders of the FBI, which fired almost all of or forced the office were to leave for very bad reasons to have opened an investigation against me, without reason and without evidence, after I fired the lying James Comey, this piece of slime!”
Wow, just learned in the Failing New York Times that the corrupt former leaders of the FBI, almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons, opened up an investigation on me, for no reason & with no proof, after I fired Lyin’ James Comey, a total sleaze!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 12. January 2019
In an Interview with U.S. television channel Fox News, Trump was asked on Saturday (local time), whether he had ever worked for Russia. “I think this is the Insulting thing I’ve ever been asked,” replied the President. When reading the “NYT”article, going clear, “that they have found absolutely nothing.”
Trump has repeatedly denied any cooperation with Russia during the presidential election in 2016. The investigation by special investigator Robert Mueller to this question, the President referred to repeatedly as a “witch-hunt”.
The former New York city mayor and current attorney trump, Rudolph Giuliani, said in an Interview with the Times, he saw no reason for excitement. The fact that the beginning of the study spent one and a half years, show, however, that the investigators should have found. (nlu/sz/sda)
Created: 13.01.2019, 08:56 PM
