The move, long foreshadowed by calls from President Donald Trump’s top allies in Congress, also includes an effort to reveal the details of former Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s interviews connected to the Russia investigation. | Oliver Contreras/Getty Images White House The move also includes an effort to reveal the details of Bruce Ohr’s interviews connected to the Russia investigation. By KYLE CHENEY, JOSH GERSTEIN and DARREN SAMUELSOHN 09/17/2018 05:41 PM EDT Updated 09/17/2018 11:30 PM EDT 2018-09-17T11:30-0400 President Donald Trump moved on Monday to immediately release a tranche of former FBI Director James Comey’s text messages and declassify 20 pages of a surveillance application that targeted former campaign adviser Carter Page, Trump’s latest offensive against a Russia investigation that has ensnared associates and has consumed his attention for much of his presidency. The breadth of the order came as a surprise and landed amid a full-court White House effort to shore up the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as he defends himself against a sexual assault allegation. Trump demanded that the FBI produce 20 pages of the surveillance application — which Republicans on Capitol Hill have suggested would help show anti-Trump bias at the highest levels of the FBI. Story Continued Below Trump also called for the release of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s notes related to the Russia probe. Ohr was a key conduit to the FBI for information provided by Christopher Steele, a former British spy who investigated Trump’s relationship with Russia during the 2016 campaign and produced a dossier of damaging allegations — which Trump has derided as false. Steele was hired by a firm that in turn had been tapped by Democrats to produce opposition research on Trump, a fact that Republicans have argued discredits Steele’s findings and suggests the FBI relied on a partisan document to pursue allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to influence the election. But Democrats and FBI defenders have argued that the effort to discredit the probe is part of a GOP push to undermine the ongoing work of special couns
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