Interference review – team behind the Mueller Report describe the 2016 political maelstrom
Special counsel prosecutors who investigated Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election set things straight
The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion," said the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, AKA the Mueller Report. A Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
Robert Mueller, the special counsel, did not criminally charge Trump but did not give him a clean bill of health, contrary to misleading claims made by Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general, in a 24 March 2019 letter - AKA the Barr Report.
Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation is published in the US by HarperCollins
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