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Declassified Documents Reveal Democrats’, Deep State Targeting of Sessions in Russia Probe

In the early months of President Donald Trump’s first term, when enemies of the administration clung to the since-discredited Russia collusion narrative, the FBI opened a probe called “March Toll” into then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The FBI launched the probe at the behest of two Democrat senators, one of whom resigned from office in disgrace before the bureau concluded the investigation of Sessions. The senators, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Al Franken of Minnesota, wrote to then-FBI Director James Comey to demand an investigation. In 2017, Trump fired Comey, who became a Trump enemy.

The probe lasted a year, from May 2017 to May 2018.

It began on May 10, one day after Trump fired Comey as FBI director. Sessions had already recused himself from the Russia investigation into Trump. Later that month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the alleged Russia collusion.

The White House recently declassified information regarding the FBI’s probe into Sessions, his interaction with a Russian ambassador, and whether he was honest in his Senate testimony. The documents tell the story of a cast of Washington characters who tried to target Trump through his first attorney general. Today in Washington, practically none of the figures are still in government, but Trump is president again.

The FBI called it “highly sensitive” and categorized the probe as a “sensitive investigative matter,” or SIM, and put it........

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