According to The Daily Beast, the prosecutors will expose Middle Eastern nations’ attempts to sway the US politics in early 2019.
The media outlet reported on Thursday that a number of representatives of the Trump team had already been questioned as part of the new probe, while two sources said that the Mueller office had been mulling issuing relevant charges "for months."
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The focus of the probe will be the countries’ purported attempts to both sway the vote in Trump’s favour and influence the US foreign policy in the early days of his administration.
The media reports about Mueller’s talks with individuals who might have been involved in alleged attempts of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to influence the Trump administration’s policies have been surfacing on a regular basis through the year.