President Donald Trump committed on Thursday, April 25, to declassifying a slew of records related to the Russia probe “and much more.”
Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he was “glad” he waited to declassify the documents until after the end of the special counsel’s investigation.
“I thought that maybe they would obstruct if I did it early, and I think I was right,” Trump said.
“Everything’s going to be declassified and more, much more than what you just mentioned,” Trump told Hannity in his first on-camera interview since the release of the special counsel’s Russia report.
Robert Mueller, the special counsel, found that Trump and the campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 campaign, as Steele claimed in his infamous dossier.
Steele, a former MI6 officer, was hired by Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that worked for the Clinton campaign and DNC. The FBI relied on the dossier even though the information in it was unverified. The bureau also failed to inform surveillance court judges who funded Steele’s project.
Trump did not provide a timeline for the release of the documents.