The report that can embarrass Donald Trump

(From Chicago) Completed the investigation, speculation begins. Special Attorney Robert Mueller has handed to Attorney General William Barr the long-awaited secret report on Russia's interference in the 2016 US presidential election and the eventual obstruction of President Donald Trump's justice. . An investigation that put the world on hold for two years eclipsed the billionaire's administration and could lead to an indictment.

Barr announced that he hoped to prepare a report based on the findings of the investigation and that he would submit to the justice commissions of both houses of Congress. You can do it Monday. But for the time being, we will not know the specific content of the data compiled by Mueller nor the names of those that it is recommended to pursue, although Trump has stated this week that it is unlikely to be the case. had no problem with the report being made public. The decision is in the hands of Barr. It is also possible that some of the data included in the survey may be considered as "must remain secret for reasons of national security". Be that as it may, it is likely that in the coming hours, breakthroughs will appear in mainstream media and social networks will be full of information and many lies.

Mueller and his team were working in secret at an office outside Washington and guarded by intelligence agents. Only a small group of lawyers and investigators entered the country, without exception, and they had to swear that they would never open their mouths to talk about their work and would not let not their cell phones at the door every day to be checked by computer experts. Journalists in the US capital were astonished by the prosecutor's secret and by the fact that even some information about Russian officials involved or the identity of hackers working for the Kremlin and who hindered communications the campaign to hurt Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate who competed with Trump. Do not forget that 16 security agencies, including the FBI and the CIA, agreed in a statement that Russia was behind computer maneuvers that could have favored the Republican candidate.

Mueller's work has already laid charges against 34 people, including six former Trump badociates and advisers. Five of the president's relatives pleaded guilty: former Trump campaign president Paul Manafort; former campaign leader Rick Gates; former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; former personal attorney Michael Cohen; and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos. A sixth character, Trump's old friend, Roger Stone, was formally charged in January with lying in front of Congress when he was to testify election maneuvers, but he pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. Twenty-four of those accused by Mueller are Russians and, as the US has not signed extradition treaty with Moscow, it is unlikely they will see in a courtroom.

Be that as it may, so far none of the Americans are directly accused of conspiring with Russia to interfere in elections. They are going to court for several conspiracy crimes, including the lie before the FBI and Congress, but the smoking gun that connects directly to the Kremlin with a maneuver to place Trump in the White House has not yet appeared. We will have to see if Mueller found him and who gets the shot.

The Special Prosecutor's investigation began on May 17, 2017, while the FBI, the Justice Department and the White House were in crisis. A few days earlier, President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey. The alleged reason was the treatment by Comey of the 2016 investigation by the irregular sending of official letters from the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But Trump confessed in an interview with NBC News shortly after the dismissal of Comey, when he kicked off, "I was thinking about the investigation of Russia".

The news shook Washington. FBI leaders are mandated for ten years to preserve their political independence and serve under more than one administration. Alarms have been triggered within the Justice and Congressional Ministry, where lawmakers feared the president would be determined to end the "Russiagate" investigation. The then Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has been declared unable to participate in the investigation because of his possible ties and everything has remained in the hands of his second, Rod Rosenstein, who has Mueller was chosen as a special prosecutor despite his independence and the possibility of arriving at a compromising report for the government. Mueller is a veteran of the Vietnam War, former director of the FBI, highly regarded by the judicial and intelligence media, as well as legislators, both Democrats and Republicans.

Although it has been publicly known since the middle of 2016 that the FBI was investigating Russia's attempts to interfere in the presidential campaign, the Justice Ministry concealed information that many of the campaign Republicans who would have conspired with the president. Russians As soon as Trump was installed in the White House, the case exploded and began to mark the Washington program. The first to be interviewed by FBI agents in charge of the investigation was National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. They asked him about his conversations during the transition with Sergey Kislyak, then Russia's ambbadador to the United States. A month later, Flynn had to resign because he allegedly "misled senior administration officials about these conversations". It appeared the possible accusation of obstruction of justice on the part of the president. Was Trump aware of all this and had he forced Flynn to blame him for saving the rest of the officials involved, including himself? Did the president intervene in the investigation?

The next to fall was Paul Manafort for managing finances during the campaign. This case was inherited by Mueller. It had been launched nearly two years ago by the Justice Department and the FBI, but under Mueller he had earned a new life. In October 2017, Manafort and Gates, his right-hand man, were charged with a series of financial crimes. The first has already been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Two months later, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Trump counter-attack with his favorite weapon: tweets. He said that everything was part of a "witch hunt", he discredited, accusing the press of everything and taking the defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But he could not prevent the continuation of the investigation and the report that was handed over today to the Justice Department in Washington. A document that could pave the way for an impeachment process for Trump. A real bomb at the start of the campaign for the 2020 elections.