President Trump’s team of lawyers are looking into the potential conflicts of interest of special counsel Robert Mueller and the investigators he has hired for his probe into Russian election meddling.
The Washington Post and The New York Times separately reported on Thursday that the president’s attorneys are examining potential conflicts they could use to undercut or discredit the special counsel investigation.
Among the conflicts of interest they’re looking at are investigators’ past donations to Democratic political candidates and Mueller’s relationship with former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired in May and who was previously charged with leading the Russia probe, according to the Times.
Such conflicts of interest, if valid, could be used by an attorney general to remove a special counsel from an investigation, the Post reported.
Trump and his allies have pointed to Mueller’s hiring of investigators with histories of donating to Democratic candidates as evidence that the special counsel’s investigation is unfair.
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