Having earned Trump’s trust, Barr has been tasked with running down various theories about how the investigation that Trump loathes began. As that effort begins in earnest, it’s worth sidestepping Trump’s shorthand and reviewing the existing theories for how the Russia investigation was tainted by bias or improper activity. Among those messages were ones disparaging Trump and referring to the progress of the Russia investigation. In May 2016, a Trump campaign adviser named George Papadopoulos got a drink in London with an Australian diplomat. One can instead ask why, if the FBI wanted to investigate the Trump campaign and Trump in order to take him down or create an “insurance policy,” it didn’t simply do so directly.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 15:19 UTC