The FBI lacked "actual evidence" to investigate Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, US special counsel John Durham concluded in a report. Trump hailed the report's findings.
EDnews informs via Dw that the FBI investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign lacked "actual evidence" and was seriously flawed, independent US counsel John Durham said in a report published Monday.
The roughly 300-page report marks the end of a four-year probe launched in May 2019. Then-Attorney General William Barr had appointed Durham, a veteran prosecutor, to probe potential missteps by the FBI.
At the time, the FBI had just launched the early stage of its "Crossfire Hurricane" inquiry into potential contacts between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
That Crossfire Hurricane investigation would later be handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller, who in March 2019 concluded there was no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.