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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

Mueller considered charging Donald Trump Jr with computer crimes, new version of report states

REUTERS

A newly published version of Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia reveals that he considered recommending charges against Donald Trump’s eldest son related to hacked data obtained by Wikileaks.

The Justice Department published a new, less-redacted version of the 2019 investigation’s findings over the weekend after BuzzFeed News filed a FOIA request for some of the redacted information. Among the newly public portions is the revelations that Donald Trump Jr attempted to gain access to a website denouncing his family’s alleged ties to Russia via a password stolen by hackers and published by Wikileaks.

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