Mueller probe cut corners, broke rules to ‘get – Latest News
An FBI agent assigned to then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign has made bombshell allegations charging misconduct, political bias, and “overzealous thoughts” permeated the workforce — to the purpose of festooning the partitions of their workplace with anti-Trump cartoons and consuming alcohol whereas on the job.
A “let’s get him” angle coloured the two-year investigation into false claims that Trump and his advisers colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, the unidentified agent stated.
The allegations have been first made in December 2020, when the agent was interviewed as half of an inside FBI probe into alleged misconduct by then-supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten — a central determine in each the Russia collusion hoax and Hunter Biden laptop computer coverup.
The Mueller investigation consumed more than half of Donald Trump’s first time period as president. AFP through Getty Images
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation discovered no proof of collusion between the 2016 Trump marketing campaign and Russia. AP
In a Sunday evening letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), detailed essentially the most troubling points of the agent’s account, saying it “confirms long-standing concerns that political bias rotted the decision-making process within the Mueller team … The American public deserve answers.”
Among essentially the most damning allegations:
There was “no authority” for the Special Counsel’s Office to open a case on Tom Barrack, a billionaire pal of Trump’s and chairman of his 2017 inaugural committee, over false claims that he was an unregistered agent of the United Arab Emirates. The FBI’s Washington Field Office already had declined to open an investigation into the now-78-year-old however the Mueller workforce nonetheless arrested Barrack, held him in jail, and charged him with being an agent of a international authorities. After a prolonged and costly legal battle, Barrack was acquitted by a jury in 2022. He now serves as US ambassador to Turkey.
The Mueller workforce chronically abused federal surveillance, or FISA, warrants that govern secret monitoring of suspected international brokers to goal Trump marketing campaign advisers, even renewing them over the objections of FBI brokers. In one case, the agent claimed, “the target of the investigation [was] cooperating and the [surveillance warrant] would not give us anything more and there was nothing in the past FISA that aided the investigation other than to prove the Target was being honest with the investigators … there were no corroborating facts that tied [the target] to certain facts that we thought were originally true.” When investigators determined to apply for a fourth warrant in opposition to the aide, the agent identified a sequence of needed corrections. In response to the proposed revisions, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith advised him: “We can’t send this.” The DOJ subsequently determined the corrections weren’t needed. Clinesmith later pleaded guilty to doctoring an electronic mail that underpinned a FISA warrant utility for an additional innocent Trump adviser, Carter Page. He was sentenced to 12 months probation and stored his law license after a short suspension.
Mueller prosecutor Zainad Ahmad, a protege of former Barack Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, repeatedly violated security protocols: “For example, she brought classified documents to a meeting at WFO [Washington Field Office] without adherence to FBI security policy by bringing her classified notebook to the meeting without a proper carrying bag. What was worse, she came to WFO from her residence, meaning she kept her notebook at the residence.”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “referred to President Trump in a derogatory manner” in an official interview file — and DOJ prosecutors later tried to stress FBI agent Michelle Taylor to “change the tone of the [document] to reflect that McCabe spoke about [Trump] without the negative connotation.” Taylor refused and left the FBI shortly after her secondment to the Mueller workforce ended, the agent stated.
A “general atmosphere … of bias [in the office was] led by one young prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky … There were caricatures and cartoons that were anti-Trump.” Zelinsky, who dealt with the zealous investigations into Trump advisers Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos and Michael Caputo, resigned from the DOJ in January 2025.
Mueller’s investigation ran till March 2019, at a value to taxpayers of more than $30 million, however discovered no proof of Russia collusion.
In May 2023, one other particular counsel, John Durham, launched a report describing the Trump-Russia probe as “seriously flawed” and discovering that the FBI “discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”
Grassley has requested Bondi and Patel to produce all emails, information and personnel information related to the agent’s allegations by March 29.
