Robert Mueller has requested documents from the DOJ related to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has requested thousands of documents from the Justice Department related to the firing of former FBI director James Comey, including any communication between the White House and the DOJ related to Attorney General Jeff Session' recusal from the Russia investigation.
As former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti noted on Sunday, the document request offers the strongest evidence yet that the president himself is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice. The documents could help Mueller clear the "big hurdle" that faces any prosecutor examining potential obstruction, Mariotti said; namely, proving that the suspect had "corrupt" intent when they impeded an ongoing investigation.
Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has also come under heightened scrutiny since last week, when the Senate Judiciary Committee announced in a press release that he had failed to turn over documents related to the Russia investigation. The content of those documents was described further in a letter from the committee's co-chairs to Kushner's lawyer.
Kushner was copied on emails sent to the Trump campaign last year from Sergei Millian, the Belarus-born businessman who has worked with the Trump Organization and was reportedly a key source in the explosive dossier alleging ties between Trump and Russia. Kushner also received an email that discussed a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite" from Alexander Torshin, the deputy head of Russia's central bank.
Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell pushed back against the document requests, arguing in a letter to committee co-chairs Grassley and Feinstein that the emails in question were not relevant to the examination of Kushner's contacts with Russians during the transition period. Lowell asked the committee, which publicized their initial letter to Kushner in a press release, to be more discreet with their document requests in the future.
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 | | | | Robert Mueller has requested documents from the DOJ related to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. | | | | | |
| | | Jared Kushner was copied on emails sent to the Trump campaign last year from Sergei Millian, a player in the infamous Trump-Russia "dossier." | | | | | | |
| | | President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, forwarded emails about a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite," two senators... | | | | | | |
| | | The Russian-owned real-estate firm Prevezon hired former FBI Director Louis Freeh to help settle a money-laundering case with the US government. | | | | | | |
| | | The far-right blogger Charles Johnson may have played a role in WikiLeaks' outreach on Twitter to Donald Trump Jr. | | | | | | |
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