“The Mueller report was great,” the president said. “It could not have been better.”
On his way to a lunch with Republican senators Tuesday, Trump continued his celebration of the release of a summary of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller. Attorney General William Barr said the report concluded that Trump had not conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.Trump presumably was relying on second-hand accounts of the report, which as far as is known to the public has been seen only by Barr and other top officials in the Department of Justice.
But Trump has gone out of his way to depict the findings as not only conclusive, but wholly positive for him.— Donald J. Trump March 24, 2019 Yet Barr’s summary notes that while Mueller’s report “does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” While Barr has pledged to “release as much of the Special Counsel’s report as I can consistent with applicable law, regulations, and Departmental policies,” and Trump has said he does not object to its release, the White House isn’t pushing for its publication.
Asked if he would like to see the report made public, the president also deferred to Barr. “Up to the attorney general, but it wouldn’t bother me at all,” Trump told reporters Monday during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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