Here's Attorney General William Barr on the “two main efforts by the Russian government to influence the 2016 election” as described in the Mueller report, which was released today.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report says investigators could not confidently state that President Donald Trump did not obstruct justice, and details numerous episodes in which Trump appeared to interfere with the Russia probe.
The 448-page report is the culmination of a nearly two-year-long investigation that has cast a shadow over Trump’s time in office as questions swirled around whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow intermediaries to sway the 2016 election, and whether the president tried to impede an investigation into the matter.
The passage is particularly notable as it contains the full context of a line that Attorney General William Barr used in an initial March 24 letter he released summarizing the principal conclusions of Mueller’s report. Barr chose only to include a portion of the final sentence, frustrating Democrats, some former DOJ officials and even some on Mueller’s team, who felt that the selective editing narrowly presented the special counsel’s findings.
“Fairness concerns counseled against potentially reaching that judgment when no charges can be brought,” the report says. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to authorities about the chats, but questions have long lingered about how much involvement Trump had in the incident. According to Mueller’s report, Trump asked his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, to get Flynn’s deputy, K.T. McFarland, to “draft an internal email that would confirm that the President did not direct Flynn to call the Russian Ambassador about sanctions.
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