Trump aims at security checks of the law firm involved in the Russia examination, which was involved in 2016

Washington – President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was moved to suspend the security reviews of lawyers in a prominent law firm, which is associated with lateral opposition research in conjunction between the Republican candidate and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The sanction against Perkin's Coie is the youngest in a series of retaliation measures by Trump and his administration, which aims at a broad cross-section of perceived opponents, including prosecutors from the Ministry of Justice, career secret services and finally private lawyers. Together, the measures not only seem to pay the scores from previous years, but also to prevent both government officials and employees of the private sector from participating in new studies on his behavior.

“This is an absolute honor. What you did is just terrible. It is a weapon – you could say a weapon against a political opponent, and it should never happen again, ”said Trump after presenting the executive order in the Oval Office.

The Executive Ordinance instructs the Attorney General, the director of the national secret services and other relevant agency, “steps to take the applicable law in order to expose all active security checks of people at Perkins Coie until a review of the agreement with the national interest corresponds.” It does not mean how many lawyers from the law firm, which did not immediately respond to a written application for a statement, could have such approval.

The punishment results from the hiring of Perkin's Coie of Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence company to make opposition research to the then candidates of Trump's connections to Russia. The agreement was conveyed by Marc Elias, who at that time was a well-connected partner at Perkin's Coie and top lawyer for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, who has since left the law firm and started his own practice.

In return, fusion GPS kept the former British spy Christopher Steele, whose research dossier circulated during the campaign in Washington. The dossier, which was handed over to the FBI for his review, claimed that Russia tried to support Trump for many years, and has accumulated compromised information about him.

However, the material was largely discredited because they were kind and not checked rumors that Trump connected to Russia. The special advisor John Durhams 2023 On the origins of the FBI's Russia investigations said that the FBI investigators, who tried to confirm the results of Steel, did not confirm “individual suggestions”. Steele confessed.

In January 2017, the dossier created a political fire storm, weeks before Trump was inaugurated into his first term when it became known that the then FBI director James Comey Trump had informed about the existence of allegations from the research. The later revelation, which the Clinton campaign and the democratic national committee financed the dossier, added questions about the legitimacy of Steeles Research, which Trump repeatedly attacks as “wrong” and inaccurate.

Trump and his allies have long tried to use the defects of the dossier to undermine the entire investigation of the relationship between his 2016 and Russia campaign. However, the reality is that the investigation began months before the FBI agents who were working on securing Dossier and opened due to a completely different tip -that a Trump campaign -Adjutant claimed to know that Russia had dirt in Hillary Clinton, Trump's opponent, that Russia had chopped democratic e -mails.

And although the examination of special advisors Robert Mueller did not come to the conclusion that Russia and the Trump campaign were criminal to approach the election, it claimed that the Kremlin had a comprehensive effort to intervene in the name of the Republican candidate, as well as the evidence that the campaign welcomed the help.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has released the public prosecutor's office of the Ministry of Justice, who took part in the investigation by special consultant Jack Smith in Trump, and explained that they had withdrawn security reviews of lawyers who have signed the legal services for Smith and former secret service officials who have signed a laptop laptops, the Hallmarks of a Russian Have signed dissinformation campaign.

The same executive regulation also claims that the company participates in what the Trump government describes as illegal diversity, justice and inclusion practices.

This is followed by a guideline by General Prosecutor Pam Bondi in the past month, which asks the Department of Civil Rights of the Ministry of Justice to examine, eliminate and punish “illegal” DEI preferences, mandates, guidelines, programs and activities in the private sector and in educational institutions that receive federal funds.

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Alanna Durkin Richer and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this report.