US Attorney-General says Russia probe was started 'without basis'
US Attorney-General William Barr believes the Russia investigation that shadowed President Donald Trump for the first two years of his administration was started without any basis and amounted to an effort to "sabotage the presidency," The Associated Press reported.
Barr, who has appointed a US attorney to lead an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, said the Justice Department has evidence there was "something far more troubling" than just mistakes during the investigation that eventually morphed into special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
"I think the president has every right to be frustrated, because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history," Barr said in the interview with Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham.
Barr said the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia "without any basis".