The Federal Bureau of investigation United States in 2017 the beginning of the test, could the American President Donald trump “to work on Moscow” against the interests of Washington, the newspaper the New York Times, citing sources.
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As the publication notes, the FBI was deeply concerned with trump’s decision to fire former head of the office of James Komi. Such step of the President was the reason to start checking if the head of the White house “under the influence of Russia”.
In addition, the investigation also had to determine if the dismissal of the Komi Republic act of obstructing justice on the part of trump, the newspaper stresses.
Previously, trump said that James Comey has repeatedly lied during testimony to Congress.
7 December 2018 Komi closed testified in the Senate, including on the events of 2016. It also became known that the former head of the FBI said that the investigation of the “Russian intervention” in U.S. elections initially appeared four Americans.