President Trump and Attorney General William Barr are waging a multi-pronged, global campaign to push foreign countries to provide information that would discredit the Mueller investigation.
According to a report in the Washington Post, Barr has pressed intelligence officials from the United Kingdom and Italy for help with an inquiry into how the Trump-Russia probe began in 2016.
That effort reportedly included a trip to Italy that Barr took last week with former U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a review of how the Russia investigation began.
One unnamed U.S. official told the New York Times that Barr asked Trump to discuss …read more
Source:: TPM
