Top Democrats Pelosi, Schumer say AG Barr 'not a neutral observer,' urge full release of Mueller report.
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They say that “the fact that Mueller’s report does not exonerate the president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public without any further delay.”Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Donald Trump was right about the Russia investigation.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale says in a statement, “Today marks the day that President Trump has been completely and fully vindicated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, exposing the Russia collusion conspiracy theory for the sham that it always was and catching Democrats in an elaborate web of lies and deceit. ”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts notes that lawmakers have voted to release the full Mueller report, not a summary from what she calls Trump’s “handpicked Attorney General.” The summary does say Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign or its associates “conspired or coordinated” with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 election.
The Justice Department said Sunday that Mueller’s investigation did not find evidence that Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. Mueller also investigated whether Trump obstructed justice, but did not come to a definitive answer. Trump Jr. has come under scrutiny during the investigation, for helping arrange a Trump Tower meeting at the height of the 2016 campaign with a Kremlin-linked lawyer.The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he will call Attorney General William Barr in to testify “in the near future.”
Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress said Mueller did not find evidence that Trump or his campaign knowingly coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.The White House claims the Justice Department letter summarizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is a “complete exoneration” of President Donald Trump.
Director of Oval Office operations Madeleine Westerhout adds on Twitter: “How many tens of millions of dollars did the American taxpayers have to pay to find out what everyone already knew.” A senior Justice official says the attorney general’s chief of staff called White House lawyer Emmet Flood at 3 p.m. Sunday and gave him a “readout” of the letter, which came out about a half-hour later. The official further says the letter was put together by Barr and the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein.— Associated Press Writer Eric Tucker.
Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler tweeted that Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress says that while President Donald Trump may have acted to obstruct justice, the government would need to prove that “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Barr says Mueller did not reach any conclusions in evaluating the president’s conduct, leaving it to the Justice Department.
That’s according to a person familiar with the planned delivery of a letter from Attorney General William Barr. He says Democrats are concerned there’ll be no “bombshell” in the report, so they’re pursing more investigations of the president. Schiff says his committee wants the full report and the underlying materials made public and will head to court to compel Barr to release them.
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