The juiciest bits (so far) from Mueller report’s ‘secret memos’
- When Donald Trump considered running for president in 2012, Steve Bannon asked: ‘for what country?’
BuzzFeed News published the first tranche of FBI documents related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the 2016 election and Russian efforts to aid Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Many of roughly 500 pages of documents - in a package BuzzFeed called “The Mueller Report’s Secret Memos” - posted online on Saturday relate to interviews with FBI agents. Various email correspondence is also included.
BuzzFeed and CNN sued for access to Mueller’s witness interview notes. In October, a judge ordered the Justice Department to release new tranches of the notes monthly to the two news organisations.
The documents are heavily redacted and feature some of the headline names from the two-year Mueller investigation, including Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, both of whom are currently serving federal prison sentences.
In one document, former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon refers to Manafort in an November 5, 2016, email to Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, days before the presidential election and months after Manafort supposedly parted ways with the campaign.