US special counsel slams FBI probe of Trump-Russia collusion

THE e FBI investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was based on flimsy evidence and seriously flawed, an independent US prosecutor said in a report published yesterday.

Special Counsel John Durham was appointed in 2019 by then-president Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr to address allegations – made most prominently by Trump himself – that the Russia investigation was a political “witch hunt.”