• 2017. Trump asks to focus on Obama when investigating Russian interference
  • Russiagate: Political victory for Donald Trump

The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the alleged espionage of Donald Trump's campaign in the 2016 White House elections that would have caused the so-called "Russian plot," The Washington Post reported Thursday .

The US attorney general, William Barr, announced a review on the subject months ago, which according to Justice Department officials would have now evolved into criminal investigation.

That it is a criminal investigation allows the prosecutor who heads it, John Durham, to summon witnesses, request documents, summon a jury and charge charges.

Barr opened this investigation after Trump's insistence that his campaign was subject to espionage before the elections by US intelligence under the orders of the then president, Barack Obama.

The Department of Justice is thus investigating itself since this alleged espionage would have been carried out by the FBI, an agency with which Trump has been very critical since coming to power.

In fact, Trump ordered US intelligence agencies last May to "quickly and completely" collaborate with Barr's efforts.

Trump intends to get to the root that led to the investigation into the so-called "Russian plot" led by Robert Mueller, who tormented him during the first two years of his Presidency and ended in March with the conclusion that neither he nor any of his Environment worked with the Kremlin to win the elections.

The president has always considered that investigation a "political persecution" and a "witch hunt".

The opening of this new criminal investigation will surely ignite the alarms in the politically convulsed Washington.

In part because Barr has repeatedly disregarded the traditional independence standards of the Department of Justice to fervently defend Trump or prove him loyal, particularly in relation to the investigation of the "Russian plot."

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