Analysis: Republicans seem to have already made up their minds on the Mueller report
By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow April 17 at 1:39 PM The Mueller report isn’t out until Thursday, but some key Republican lawmakers appear to have already drawn their own conclusions about what’s in it.
“[T]wo years, thousands of subpoenas, hundreds of search warrants, hundreds of witnesses, millions of taxpayer dollars, and these are the findings: No collusion. No conspiracy. No obstruction,” McConnell said on the Senate floor in March after Attorney General William P. Barr — not special counsel Robert S. Mueller III — decided there wasn’t enough evidence to implicate the president on obstructing the probe into Russian election interference.
But, overall, Republicans have been largely obsequious to Trump, especially when it comes to the Russia investigation. Last year, McConnell refused to bring up a bill to protect Mueller from being fired, even as some of the majority leader’s Republican colleagues supported it. This year, Republicans confirmed Barr to the all-important attorney general position at the Justice Department over Democratic concerns that he wouldn’t be an impartial judge of the facts.
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