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Newly declassified FBI memos reveal the agency investigated whether Trump was working as a Russian asset after he fired FBI Director Comey. The White House released the documents, which show the FBI's concerns about his firing and conduct.
Newly declassified FBI memos show the agency investigated whether Trump was working as a Russian asset after he fired FBI Director Comey. The White House itself released the documents, which detail the FBI's concerns about his firing and his conduct. The investigation was serious enough to warrant formal memos but apparently wasn't widely known until these records were declassified.
The White House releasing these documents is itself significant—Trump could have kept them classified. Instead, the administration is putting them out, possibly to show the FBI acted against him. But the documents also show federal law enforcement took seriously the possibility that the sitting president had compromised national security, serious enough to investigate. That's a low moment for a country, whether the suspicion was warranted or not. The fact that we're learning about this investigation years later from declassified memos rather than from public disclosure at the time suggests the scope and seriousness of the matter was kept tight.
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