{"id":117,"date":"2022-11-05T00:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/?post_type=te_announcements&p=117"},"modified":"2022-11-05T00:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:25:58","slug":"05-17-2017-justice-department-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-trump-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"te_announcements","link":"https:\/\/russia-gate.net\/index.php\/announcement\/05-17-2017-justice-department-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-trump-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"05\/17\/2017 \u2013 Justice Department appoints special counsel to investigate Trump and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Justice Department appointed a special counsel Wednesday to investigate possible coordination between Trump associates and Russian officials \u2014 a clear signal to the White House that federal investigators will aggressively pursue the matter despite the president\u2019s insistence that there was no \u201ccollusion\u2019\u2019 with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Robert S. Mueller III, a former prosecutor who served as the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, has agreed to take over the investigation as a special counsel, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced.<\/p>\n

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