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Trump Trains His Sights on Mueller's Investigation

The president’s lawyers are looking at multiple ways to undermine or curtail the Russia inquiry, including his issuing pardons.
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

President Trump is exploring steps to curtail Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation into the president’s campaign and business dealings, inching the country closer to uncharted constitutional waters.

reported Thursday that Trump’s private legal team is of Mueller and his prosecutors for potential conflicts of interest and damaging information to be used against them. According to the , that research is part of a broader effort by Trump to curtail and discredit the former FBI director’s probe into whether the Trump campaign colluded with

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