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Trump Hopes US Atty. General Barr To Look At UK, Australia, Ukraine In Russia Probe Review
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published May 24, 2019 | 11:45 PM
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he hopes Attorney General William Barr will look at all the available information in his review of the intelligence community's role in launching a probe into allegations of Trump-Russian collusion and Russian election interference
"For over a year, people asked me to declassify, so what I've done is I've declassified everything," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I hope he looks at the UK, and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. It's the greatest hoax, probably in the history of our country, and somebody has to get to the bottom of it."
Earlier on Friday, the White House announced that Trump directed the US intelligence community to fully cooperate in Barr's investigation.
The president also authorized the US Attorney General to declassify data as part of the probe.
The surveillance activities that affected some of the members of the Trump campaign team back in 2016 are seen by many as one of the origins of the probe into the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the run-up to the presidential election, won by Trump.
While the probe failed to establish evidence of the alleged collusion, which was denied by both Russia and Trump, in April, Barr announced an investigation into its origins.
In mid-May, Barr assigned John Durham, the US attorney in Connecticut, to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion probe.
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