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The REAL Reason Trump Avoided FBI Crackdown
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6:19Now PlayingThe real reason the FBI didn't investigate Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 riots. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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Washington PostFBI slowed investigation into Trump’s role in January 6 for fear of appearing political
"The FBI, mindful of not wanting to appear partisan, had for months held off on launching a formal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s role in efforts to subvert the 2020 election, The Washington Post reported Monday, though the episode doesn’t appear to have significantly hampered prosecutors’ ability to look at Trump for federal crimes in the past two years.
Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, top Justice Department and FBI officials dismissed as premature a plan to investigate Trump allies as part of its probe and initially held off on naming him as a target, the Post reported, citing several sources familiar.
Prosecutor J.P. Cooney, the Post said, pushed to expand the probe to investigate potential links between extremists and some in Trump’s orbit and proposed to do so in February 2021. But along with feeling it was premature, top officials who initially rejected that proposal were also weary of political risks and straying away from standard investigative procedure, according to the Post."
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