The concern by the FBI coalesced around two equally jarring possibilities: (1) that Donald Trump was acting on behalf of Russia, either willingly or as a result of blackmail ... and that (2) Trump posed a national security risk to the United States by trying to end the agency’s probe into Russian interference.
That there was enough suspicion for the FBI to launch a counterintelligence operation on a sitting US president ... is as astonishing as it is unsettling.
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