Waters said Barr 'was chosen to protect the president of the United States and that's exactly what he's doing.'
California Congresswoman Maxine Waters has hit out at Attorney General William Barr, calling him a “sycophant” and a “lackey” for President Donald Trump ahead of the long-awaited release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
The summary suggested Mueller had found no evidence of collusion, though it did not exonerate Trump on the question of obstruction of justice, despite the president's repeated claims. “I'm not surprised, I'm not even disgusted,” Waters added. “I knew that once he came out and he said there had been no obstruction of justice and that there'd been no collusion that he absolutely stepped out early to defend the president.”
“This report is going to be overly redacted and I don't know if we're going to get anything new or important out of that,” Waters predicted.
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