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AG Barr Suggests That ‘Spying Did Occur’ On Trump’s Presidential Campaign

During a Wednesday Senate budget hearing, Attorney General William Barr’s testimony was riddled with inquires into the investigation regarding collusion between Russia and the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump and the release of White House Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly 400-page report. Though, one of the main takeaways from Barr’s responses was that he believes “spying did occur” on Trump’s presidential campaign, also suggesting the origins of the Russia investigation may have been mishandled.

Barr, however, did not specify what “spying” in particular had occurred, but may have implied about a situation regarding a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on an associate of Trump’s campaign.

This news comes after Washington has been reacting to Barr’s four-page letter he sent to Congress detailing the findings of the Mueller report. After much contention with the news of the report through the attorney general, lawmakers demanded a release of the full report.

A redacted version of the special counsel’s investigation findings was said by Barr to be coming forth within one week.

Nevertheless, the attorney general is set to review the origins of the 675-day investigation, which stated Trump’s presidential campaign did not collude with the Russian government, and explained the evidence revealed in the investigation was “not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”

Regardless, the tides may begin to shift in the president’s favor as the focus will now be on who spied on his 2016 campaign.

Barr told senators on Wednesday he believed the Trump campaign had been spied on, but “the question is whether it was adequately predicated,” AP reports. He says he believes that “spying on a political campaign is a big deal.”

The Justice Department’s inspector general has already been investigating the early days of the FBI’s Russia probe, but Barr said he is looking to pull together the different reviews underway within the DOJ and see if there are remaining questions that need to be addressed.

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BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Expected To Resign

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is reportedly expected to resign today, even going to so far as to verbally resign to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President Trump, according to some reports.

The development follows last week’s New York Times (NYT) article detailing how Rosenstein has talked about working to invoke the 25th Amendment to have President Donald Trump removed from office, as well as and wearing a wire during meetings with the President to expose alleged chaos within the administration. Rosenstein has denied both allegations.

Justice Department officials said on Monday morning that the deputy attorney general was on his way to the White House and expecting to be fired. Over the weekend, Rosenstein is said to have called a White House official and said he was considering quitting, and a person close to the White House said he was resigning, according to the NYT.

As the top Justice Department official overseeing the investigation into Russia collusion on part of the 2016 Trump campaign, Rosenstein has been a fierce defender of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, repeatedly refusing to consider firing him despite accusations by President Trump and his allies that the investigation is part of a “deep state” Democratic conspiracy to undermine his term in office.

If President Trump accepts the resignation from Rosenstein, Solicitor General Noel Francisco would assume oversight of the Russia investigation. The acting deputy attorney general would be Matthew Whitaker, the chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, until a permanent replacement is named.

Furthermore, Rosenstein’s presumed departure has prompted questions of whether President Trump has other people lined up on the chopping block. For example, Sessions has been repeatedly bashed by the President on Twitter as well as in the news. Last week, Trump was quoted as saying, “I have no attorney general.”