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A 'sweeping and systemic' Russian effort backed Trump's 2016 campaign

WASHINGTON - Shortly before he released the special counsel's redacted report on Thursday, Attorney General William Barr announced the document said President Donald Trump's campaign had not "conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."

But Barr omitted the first part of that sentence from Robert S. Mueller III's report. The special counsel wrote that Trump's campaign "expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."

The gap between Barr's rosy interpretation and Mueller's evidence was another example of how far the attorney general has stretched to portray the president in the best possible light at the end of an investigation that cast a dark shadow over the White House for the last two years.

It also was a pointed reminder of Trump's

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