Legal experts say the Department of Justice is taking steps that could lead to a potential criminal probe of the president's Ukraine scheme
The Justice Department is in another election-season jam — faced with politically loaded decisions over how aggressively to investigate President Donald Trump and his allies in the heat of the 2020 campaign.
It all adds up to a tumultuous year ahead for Attorney General William Barr, who has struggled to maintain the department’s historic reputation for independence, while serving a president who openly castigates federal law enforcement for leading a “coup” to unseat him. DOJ hasn’t exactly delivered a coherent message on what elements of the Ukraine scandal it might be investigating.
But a senior DOJ official also said Kupec’s Sept. 25 statement shouldn’t be taken as the final statement on the matter. Instead, the person said Kupec was only speaking to the specific issues the inspector general had raised after reviewing the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. The comment, the official said, shouldn’t be seen as ruling out the possibility that DOJ would examine other issues tied to the Trump-Zelensky call.
In recent weeks, the department has started to show an interest in some of the players central to the Ukraine plot.
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