Opinion: The big unanswered question at the core of Trump’s corruption
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 10 at 10:40 AM Why?
Why? Why is this massive effort to close down every last remaining line of inquiry necessary, if Trump has been totally exonerated?The refusal to release the full Mueller materials. The New York Times reports an intriguing nugget on Trump’s internal deliberations over the fate of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s full, unredacted report:
This is inarguably within Congress’ authority. But why do Trump’s lawyers think the disclosure of the information itself would be bad for him, if this is a closed matter? Doesn’t that undermine Trump’s stated rationale for exerting executive privilege to block this release — that it’s about defending against a Democratic “abuse of power”?
As Schiff told Rachel Maddow, such materials could shed more light on contacts between Trumpworld figures and Russians, and on additional findings that raise counterintelligence but not criminal concerns.
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