Ex-DOJ official: Trump was 'vulnerable' to foreign intelligence agencies by Isikoff
CommentMichael IsikoffChief Investigative CorrespondentDecember 13, 2019WASHINGTON — The top Justice Department official who oversaw the FBI investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in its early stages said she never viewed the president as a “Russian asset” but that the president and some of his top aides, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, were susceptible to being “used” by foreign intelligence agencies.
And she said that view was validated at a 2018 Helsinki summit, where Trump appeared to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of interfering in the 2016 presidential election despite the firm conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies saying otherwise.
As the report made clear, and McCord emphasized, FBI agents, supervisors and lawyers seeking the warrant and renewals never disclosed the withheld evidence to her and other Justice Department officials responsible for signing off on the warrant applications to a federal court.
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