On November 22, 2017, Trump’s pressure paid off. Sessions sent a letter to John Huber, a former federal prosecutor in Utah, instructing him to determine if a criminal investigation into the uranium deal was merited. Eleven months after taking office, despite the appointment of a special counsel, Trump had pressured the attorney general into launching an inquiry into discredited Clinton claims. (Two years later, in January 2020, the Washington Post reported that Huber found no wrongdoing and had filed no charges in the case.) To the president, the opening of an investigation appeared to be more
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