{"id":383384,"date":"2018-11-02T18:31:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-fbi-investigating-bid-to-smear-robert-mueller\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:31:35","slug":"presstv-fbi-investigating-bid-to-smear-robert-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-fbi-investigating-bid-to-smear-robert-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-FBI investigating bid to smear Robert Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into alleged claims of sexual misconduct against special counsel Robert Mueller, which his office described as a scheme to discredit his credibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scheme was uncovered after a woman, who claimed she worked for Mueller decades ago, told several news media outlets that she had been offered money to spread fake accusations about the Russia probe chief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,&#8221; Mueller&#8217;s spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller is investigating allegations that members of President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign team colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor. Trump has vehemently denied any collusion with Russia, calling the probe a political witch hunt. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her email to journalists, the woman said she&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/31\/578616\/FBI-investigating-bid-to-smear-Robert-Mueller\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into alleged claims of sexual misconduct against special counsel Robert Mueller, which his office described as a scheme to discredit his credibility. The scheme was uncovered after a woman, who claimed she worked for Mueller decades ago, told several news media outlets that she had been offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}