C.I.A. intelligence relayed to the special counsel's office suggested that senior leaders of a foreign adversary had signed off on secretly funneling millions of dollars with the help of a Trump campaign adviser acting as a bag man to Mr. Trump in the final days of the 2016 election.
Mr. Mueller's team initially had about potential foreign influence over Mr. Trump involved Egypt, diverging attention from Trump's ties to Russia.
While Mr. Mueller has often been criticized for not moving aggressively enough to investigate Mr. Trump's personal and financial ties to Russia, his team took invasive steps to try to understand whether Mr. Trump or his campaign had received financial backing from Cairo.
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