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Spy tells DOJ: Russians believed they had Trump ‘over a barrel’

By Eric Tucker and Chad Day

Eric Tucker and Chad Day, reporters, Washington, for reporting exclusively that a former British spy told a senior Justice Department official in the summer of 2016 that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel.” https://bit.ly/2wB4Fif

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SEPT. 7, 2018

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