The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019. It was also called the Russia investigation, Mueller probe, and Mueller investigation. The investigation focused on three points:Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Trump associates and their connection to Russian officials and espionage
Possible obstruction of justice by Trump and his associates
Matthew Whitaker, who served as the Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to February 2019
Manafort speaking to media at the 2016 Republican National Convention
The order dated May 17, 2017, appointing a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
William Pelham Barr is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.
Barr with President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office in 1983
Barr and Dan Quayle watch as President George H. W. Bush signs the Civil Rights Commission Reauthorization Act in the Rose Garden of the White House in 1991.
Official photo of Barr during his first tenure as Attorney General