Philly.com offers a piece by
Robert Farley at FactCheck.org on questions and answers about the appointment
of a special counsel to investigate the Russian connection, if any, to Trump.
On May 17, the Justice
Department announced the appointment of former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
III as special counsel to investigate any possible collusion between the Trump
campaign and the Russian government’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential
election.
Trump responded by calling
the investigation a “witch hunt.”
At a May 18 press conference,
Trump said: “Well, I respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch
hunt. And there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign — but
I can always speak for myself — and the Russians, zero.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein made the decision to appoint a special counsel just days after Trump
fired FBI Director James Comey. Comey told Congress on March 20 that the FBI
had opened an investigation last July into “the Russian government’s efforts to
interfere in the 2016 presidential election, and that includes investigating
the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign
and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the
campaign and Russia’s efforts.”
Amid ongoing investigations
by the FBI and House and Senate intelligence committees, what exactly does the
appointment of a special counsel mean? Here we answer some questions that
readers may have.
You can read the Q&A via
the below link:
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