Barr Assembles Team To Scrutinize Origins Of The FBI’s Trump Campaign Probe: Reports

The president and his Republican backers have long demanded that the Justice Department look into claims that the FBI investigation was politically motivated.

President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters have long called for the Justice Department to scrutinize decisions made by the FBI related to its 2016 investigation into the Trump presidential campaign — an investigation that the president has repeatedly lambasted as politically motivated. It now appears that Attorney General William Barr is acceding to this demand.

Barr, who was tapped by Trump to head the Department of...