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Report: Trump FBI Purge Ended Graham and Clyburn Bribery Probe
Original: How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
ProPublica reports that an FBI anti-corruption team opened an investigation into whether South Carolina's most powerful members of Congress, Republicans Lindsey Graham and Democrat James Clyburn, were involved in a bribery scheme. According to the report, after Donald Trump moved to gut leadership at the FBI and the Justice Department, the investigation stalled and eventually went dark, with no public findings against either lawmaker.
Why now: The claim that a presidential shake-up of law enforcement killed a probe into sitting senators is a striking allegation about political interference.
Donald TrumpLindsey GrahamJames ClyburnFBIProPublica
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Evidence
- How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation · ProPublica
An FBI anti-corruption team launched an investigation into whether South Carolina’s most powerful members of Congress were involved in a bribery scheme, ProPublica found. After Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, the investigation went dark.
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