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Under the Obama administration, the FBI launched an investigation into the Trump campaign's relationship with Russian operatives — a covert operation at the time that required the bureau to request court approval to secretly monitor Carter Page, a former adviser to Trump.
What's False
However, no evidence showed Obama, or any member of the White House, directed counterintelligence agents to illegally monitor the Trump campaign, nor did any court record show that the former president breached his authority as president during the FBI's Russia investigation.
In late July 2016, under the Obama administration, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a secret probe into the Trump campaign’s relationships with Russian agents.
To better understand how the investigation came to be — and whether Obama abused his presidential powers to direct secret agents to illegally monitor Trump’s campaign — we referred to a
report by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz, released in December 2019. Per that federal document, the FBI launched the covert surveillance effort, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” three days after learning that a Trump aid “had received some kind of suggestion from Russia” that it could help the Trump campaign uncover information that would damage Clinton and Obama.
Roughly one month into the secret investigation, James Comey, then-FBI director, said he told Obama and others about the FBI’s surveillance effort, which primarily scrutinized four Trump campaign aides — Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Mike Flynn, and Paul Manafort — because of their apparent or suspected ties to the Kremlin. But Comey said he did not describe the operation in detail with the sitting president.