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know that the president fired FBI director James Comey because of the Russia investigation — he admitte

als about the campaign? And does anyone truly believe that somehow Trump himself was out of the loop? We know that the president fired FBI director James Comey because of the Russia investigation — he admitted it publicly. This week, we know why he did it. Until recently, the Russian collusion story always

that can have an extraordinarily damaging effect not just for him, not just for Republicans, but for overall confidence in government institutions," Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Princeton University, told me. Like many who were Hillary supporters, I sort of believed that Donald Trump was not really

and the public. Mr. Mueller was appointed as the special counsel on May 17, 2017, in the wake of Mr. Trump's decision eight days earlier to dismiss James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. Mr. Mueller was given a mandate to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election and "any links and/or coordinatio

, Mr. Barr wrote a 19-page memo last summer arguing that Mr. Mueller was on shaky legal ground if he tried to treat Mr. Trump's decision to fire Mr. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., as an act of obstruction — a memo that has Democrats in Congress worried that the attorney general comes to the

s for the White House. "Investigations take on a life of their own, and they usually end up much broader than what they originally looked at," said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. The independent counsel appointed to investigate Clinton in 1994 started with a suspicious real e

and the public. Mr. Mueller was appointed as the special counsel on May 17, 2017, in the wake of Mr. Trump's decision eight days earlier to dismiss James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. Mr. Mueller was given a mandate to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election and "any links and/or coordinatio

, Mr. Barr wrote a 19-page memo last summer arguing that Mr. Mueller was on shaky legal ground if he tried to treat Mr. Trump's decision to fire Mr. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., as an act of obstruction — a memo that has Democrats in Congress worried that the attorney general comes to the

s for the White House. "Investigations take on a life of their own, and they usually end up much broader than what they originally looked at," said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. The independent counsel appointed to investigate Clinton in 1994 started with a suspicious real e