Trump publishes FBI documents for the Russia examination

Trump publishes FBI documents for the Russia examination

President Donald Trump on Tuesday has a variety of materials from the FBI examination from 2016 Russia published. This is another example of how Trump uses his authority to reject personal political disputes.

Declassification of the Russia investigation

With the signing of an executive order, Trump continued a process that he had initiated in the last days of his first term. At that time, he ordered the complete declaration of the FBI investigation into the Russia affair, which as crossfire hurricane is known.

secret documents disappeared

These efforts led to hectic preparations behind the scenes, while employees of the Republicans and Trumps worked to collect and edit a file folder full of strictly secret information. Trump officially exposed the materials on January 19, 2021, his last full day, but the documents were never published. A blurred copy of the file folder disappeared in mysterious way, such as cnn 2023 reported .

content of the file folder

The content of the file folder was a lot of information about the Russian investigation, including highly sensitive secret information that the USA and its NATO allies had collected about Russia and Russian agents. This information influenced the The Russian President Wladimir Putin Trump 2016 wanted. It is likely that this material will be blackened in the publicly accessible documents.

content for FBI monitoring

In addition, the file folder included classified information about the problematic surveillance applications against a consultant of the Trump campaign submitted in 2017; Interview notes with the controversial dossier author Christopher Steele as well as internal SMS and emails from the FBI and the Doj, among other documents.

statements by the Minister of Justice

In his memorandum, Trump found that materials that the FBI had proposed in January 2021 should remain secret, as well as “materials that have to be protected from disclosure according to the orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.”

Trump's fight against the Russia investigation

"According to my command, the Ministry of Justice has already started the process to publish materials on the notorious Crossfire Hurricane examination of the FBI, an example of the abused state against President Trump, which must never be done again," said Attorney General Pam Bondi in an explanation.

The executive order from Tuesday has only been one of several measures with which Trump is concerned with the Russia investigation since he has been back in office. This is done in the context of its more comprehensive approach to his perceived political enemies and those who have examined him in the past eight years. Trump also signed an executive command the suspension of security releases and access to federal buildings for lawyers from the law firm Jenner & Block ordered.

reactions of Trump's allies

The law firm had previously employed the former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann One of the main liabilities in the investigation of special investigators Robert Mueller.

Trump's allies have been committed to publishing the file folder since his choice, including the FBI director Kash Patel. "Publishes the documents. Publishes the evidence. We are only half through the Russiagate swamp," said Patel on Fox News in November. "People need to know that their FBI is restored by fully understanding what was illegally undertaken there."

Current developments in the FBI documents

In 2023, the FBI published some blackened documents from the Crossfire Hurricane examination in response to a lawsuit according to the Freedom of Information Act. John Solomon-a conservative journalist that Trump made in 2022 as his representative to receive the archives to receive the documents-said that the disclosures were insufficient, according to a lawsuit that Solomon had previously submitted to receive the file folder documents from the bidue administration.

The information in this report was supplemented by Evans Perez from CNN.