'Worse than Watergate' New FBI files detail agent's push to join Trump probe, investigate Elon Musk
Politics,Donald Trump,Elon Musk
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a batch of unclassified emails between FBI agents stemming from Operation Crossfire Hurricane, a Justice Department investigation launched during the Obama administration into whether then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign was colluding with Russia during the 2016 election.
Grassley argued that the email exchanges, which included former FBI Special Agent Kevin Gounaud seeking to open an investigation into Elon Musk over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), revealed that the "Deep State" was at work to undermine Trump.
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