House committee chairman subpoenas full Mueller report after Justice Department releases redacted version
By Washington Post Staff April 19 at 9:00 AM President Trump sought Friday to discredit damaging portions of the report by the special counsel, while Democrats vowed to subpoena the full report that led to no criminal charges but laid bare what they characterized as “alarming” behavior by Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed the full Muller report following the release of a redacted version on Thursday by the Justice Department. “Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue,” Trump wrote. “Because I never agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the ‘Report’ about me, some of which are total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good .”
In a television interview, Trump personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani also sought to discredit portions of the report, calling it “highly biased” and “not a fairly written report.” “We will subpoena that entire report today,” Nadler said. “That subpoena will come in the next couple of hours.” “I hope collectively as a country we can move on because great things can happen under this president,” she added.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged Friday that Democrats would fulfill their role of “oversight of our democracy” but declined to comment on potential impeachment proceedings against Trump in the wake of the Mueller report. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues Thursday night, Pelosi said that the report included “several alarming findings.”
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