The U.S. Election 2016: NO COLLUSION? 978-1-950088-90-4 by Jean Robert Revolus is an informative book about the Presidential Elections that took place in 2016. The results left the nation and the rest of the world in shock as the most unlikely candidate, Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States of America. The shock, controversies, and rumors surrounding the election will be remembered in American history. Revolus presents readers with intricate and comprehensive information about all the different stages of the elections and the possibility of Donald Trump colluding with the Russian government to secure votes. Multiple investigations into the possibility of Russian interference that was carried about by different US institutions are mentioned in the book, as well as names of officials, which were charged with different crimes and convicted. But none could prove collusion with solid evidence. A few officials have broken their silence regarding the investigations and findings of them, admitting that they had no “option” to charge the president with a crime.
After the investigations, President Donald Trump has continuously appealed to the Department of Justice to investigate the FBI for corruption, illegal surveillance of his presidential campaign, and false documents, which led to the federal investigations of the interactions his officials and Russian operatives had. The federal counterintelligence investigation was extensive. The timeline of the investigations are lengthy and mostly based on testimony, court filings, publicly-released FBI documents, and congressional records. Here are the four key takeaways from the timeline by ABC News:
· In the months before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI was uncovering efforts by the Russian government to interfere in the election, and the FBI was trying to assess unverified allegations that Trump’s associates were aiding the Russian effort.
· The FBI’s counterintelligence probe was not launched because of the “dossier,” but the “dossier” aided the investigation and offered unconfirmed tips for agents to explore.
· Looking to share the work of a longtime acquaintance, senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr passed on “dossier”-linked information to the FBI. But the first recorded meeting between Ohr and the FBI came four months after the FBI launched its investigation and a full month after the FBI used previously-obtained information from the “dossier” to support secret surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
· Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systematic fashion,” Robert Mueller said in his report, a fact that was evidenced by the indictment last year of the whole Russian troll farm behind much of the social media interference, known as the Internet Research Agency.
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