Mueller’s Russia probe zeroes in: When did Trump decide to run?Fox Business, Feb 27, 2018, Charles Gasparino, Brian Schwartz
As special prosecutor Robert Mueller racks up one indictment after another in his probe of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, his investigators are increasingly focusing on a seemingly insignificant fact concerning the president: When exactly did private citizen Donald Trump decide he should run for president?
FOX Business has learned that Mueller’s team has been focusing on this detail in interviews with people who have been called to provide testimony in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether Trump aides or associates violated federal laws by colluding in that effort to gain an edge over Hillary Clinton.
People with direct knowledge of these interviews said that Mueller’s investigators have made finding the details of the timing of Trump’s decision a key question for people in his orbit who have been asked to speak with the special prosecutor’s office.
Why exactly the special prosecutor’s office cares so much about the timing of Trump’s decision to run is unclear, but people with knowledge of the investigation said such information may be used to show that the future president entered the race at about the same time Russian agents began to expand efforts to influence the election in his favor, first over his defeated GOP challengers in the primaries and then when he pulled off an upset victory over Clinton in November 2016.
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