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Donald Trump has always said: with the Russian investigation, the FBI wanted to sabotage his election campaign. A thesis denied by the Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice who made his conclusions on Monday 9 December.
During the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump's campaign team is suspected of colluding with the Russian authorities . An investigation conducted by prosecutor Mueller for 22 months and published on April 18, 2019 had finally resulted in a dismissal.
The Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, in his report on Monday, December 9, estimated that the federal police did well to open an investigation following the contacts of the campaign team of President Trump with the Russia.
An investigation based
But the report of the Inspector General also evokes errors of the police, which allow the White House to persist in the thesis of a conspiracy of the federal police, says our correspondent in Washington, Anne Corpet . " The decision of the FBI to open an investigation was justified, " concludes the official report of the Inspector General. According to the document, the FBI acted on the basis of trustworthy information and worked without political bias.
Chris Wray, Director of the FBI, is relieved: " The Inspector General has found no political bias or unfounded motivation for the initiation of the investigation or the use of certain means in the context of this investigation " .
The FBI's mistakes
However, the report points to errors and omissions by some agents. The director of the FBI has promised to crack down, but these flaws confirm the suspicions of Donald Trump. " What happened is a shame. This should never happen to another president. It's unbelievable, much worse than I thought, much worse ... ", the US president lambasted.
Once again, from a single document, the Democrats and the White House draw different conclusions. Donald Trump continues to evoke an attempted coup against him, while the opposition believes that this conspiracy theory is shattered by the report.
This week, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives must also vote on the indictments against the US President for abuse of power, corruption, obstruction of Congress and hindering justice. This impeachment investigation follows Donald Trump's request to Ukraine to investigate the democrat Joe Biden, one of his rivals for the 2020 presidential election.