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![Trump is reportedly under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for obstruction of justice. (Image Credit: By The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/profile/public/images/article/2019-02/President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%252833754471884%2529.jpg?itok=Vy_YsHCQ "Trump is reportedly under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for obstruction of justice. (Image Credit: By The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)")
Based on the leaks, the FBI started investigating the president for potential obstruction after he fired former FBI director, James Comey. Trump said outright that he did that because of the Russia investigation. The FBI is apparently taking him at his word.
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The special counsel is former FBI director Robert Mueller. The same FBI director who, under President George W. Bush, threatened to quit rather than unconstitutionally wiretap U.S. citizens without a warrant. This is a by-the-book, law and order kind of guy. And his chief ally within the Department of Justice at that moment? James Comey.
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