AP FACT CHECK: Trump takes credit for law literally named after McCain
Trump overstates McCain's role in aiding the FBI with a false chronology on when the senator provided a so-called"dossier" that detailed many salacious but unconfirmed details about Trump and his aides."McCain didn't get the job done for our great vets," Trump said."I got it done.
Trump often claims falsely that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe is based on the dossier. That probe is examining Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign. The FBI's investigation actually began months before it received the dossier of anti-Trump research financed by the Democratic Party and Clinton's campaign. The FBI probe's origins were based on other evidence — not the existence of the dossier.
McCain didn't rest after the law was enacted. He fought to expand the program and achieved that, too, in his last months.
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