Reactions to the Mueller special counsel investigation

Reactions to the Special Counsel investigation of any Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election have been widely varied and have evolved over time. An initial period of bipartisan support and praise for the selection of former FBI director Robert Mueller to lead the Special Counsel investigation gave way to some degree of partisan division over the scope of the investigation, the composition of the investigative teams, and its findings and conclusions.

While initially enjoying bipartisan support, the investigation quickly became the subject of criticism by Trump and his surrogates in the conservative media, with Sean Hannity eventually proposing it was part of a "deep state" conspiracy against Trump. A number of allegations were raised and almost immediately debunked, including misconduct by investigators, supposed unlawful wire-tapping of Trump Tower during the campaign, improper unmasking of Trump associates on intelligence intercepts, alleged abuse of Carter Page by the FISA court detailed in the Nunes memo, the alleged installation of a mole in the Trump campaign, and the FBI being denied access to DNC servers for forensic analysis purposes.

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