Mueller report documents links between Trump campaign and Russia, steps to thwart probe; finds no conspiracy

Posted on AllSides April 18th, 2019
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Members of President Donald Trump's campaign showed interest in benefiting from Russian government efforts to sway the 2016 presidential election in his favor, but investigators did not find evidence that their conduct amounted to a crime, special counsel Robert Mueller said in a long-awaited report revealed Thursday.

Investigators found that some of Trump’s aides engaged in contacts with people linked to the Russian regime even as the Kremlin was carrying out a wide-ranging effort to intervene in the election using hacked documents and phony social media campaign, carried out because...

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/18/special-counsel-robert-mueller-report-justice-department-release-investigation-trump-russia/3330151002/

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