Trump has lifted the secrecy stamp from the FBI investigation into his alleged ties with the Russian Federation

US President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum obliging the Department of Justice to declassify documents related to the 2016-2017 FBI investigation into alleged ties between his headquarters and Russia. The signing was broadcast on March 25 on the White House website.

"It's a shame. This should never have happened in this country. Now you can see for yourself, everything is declassified," Trump said, signing the document.

We are talking about the materials of the investigation, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane. It was launched in 2016, and in 2019, Special Prosecutor John Durham began checking its circumstances on behalf of then Attorney General William Barr.

During the investigation, Durham concluded that the FBI acted atypically and did not have sufficient grounds to initiate investigative measures. In 2023, he published a report in which he pointed out the lack of intelligence used to launch the case against Trump.

At the same time, an administration official noted that some data would still remain classified, clarifies "Газета.ги ".

"Trump is following in Kennedy's footsteps"

Political scientist and Americanist Vladimir Vasiliev on what is behind the publication of documents about the crime in Dallas

On March 19, the US National Archives, by order of Trump, published declassified documents about the assassination of Kennedy, his brother, politician Robert, and black rights activist Martin Luther King. The collection consists of more than 6 million pages of recordings, photographs, films, sound recordings and artifacts.

In turn, the grandson of the deceased president, Jack Schlossberg, criticized the American media for covering declassified documents about the murder of his grandfather in 1963. According to him, the Trump administration did not warn the Kennedy family about the publication of the materials. At the same time, he noted that the nephew of the assassinated president, Robert Kennedy Jr., who holds the post of head of the US Department of Health, knew about these plans.