A federal prosecutor in Florida has issued dozens of subpoenas for officials who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election in response to one of President Donald Trump’s longest-running conspiracy theories.

The president claims he is the victim of a “grand conspiracy” of Democrats and “deep-state” operatives who have been working to destroy him since his first term in office, despite a lack of evidence.

Two previous investigations into high-level officials who led the Russia inquiry found that there were no grounds to charge them with any crimes.

The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, has nevertheless begun subpoenaing intelligence officials who concluded in January 2017 that Russia was trying to tip the election in

See Full Page