AP FACT CHECK: Trump, AG Barr spread untruths on Mueller report
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is still distorting the truth about the Russia investigation , claiming exoneration from a special counsel's report that he is also assailing as hopelessly biased.
THE FACTS: Trump repeats a baseless charge that Mueller is a"highly conflicted" prosecutor, something that Trump's own aides have debunked. Mueller was appointed as special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee.TRUMP:"The Mueller Report should not have been authorized in the first place." — tweet Saturday.
The report notes the investigation was initiated after the FBI received information related to Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, not the dossier. Last year, the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee made the same finding. KELLYANNE CONWAY, White House counselor:"What matters is what the Department of Justice and special counsel concluded here, which is no collusion, no obstruction, and complete exoneration, as the president says." — remarks Thursday to reporters.
"The evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes or that would give rise to personal and political concerns," the report states. Now she's back to suggesting that Comey was in fact unpopular in the FBI."I said that it was in the heat of the moment, meaning it wasn't a scripted thing," she said Friday."But the big takeaway here is that the sentiment is 100% accurate."
In his four-page memo last month, Barr said while Mueller left open the question of whether Trump broke the law by obstructing the investigation, Barr was ultimately deciding as attorney general that the evidence developed by Mueller was"not sufficient" to establish, for the purposes of prosecution, that Trump obstructed justice.
On Sept. 7, 1998, Clinton's attorney David Kendall requested that Starr provide him an opportunity to review the report before it was sent to Congress. Starr quickly turned him down.
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