Attorney General Bill Barr has finally released his redacted version of the highly-anticipated report that represents the culmination of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation.
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Already on Twitter there’s a number of really damning things. And they knew it wasn’t possible to cover it all up; hence the outrageous spinning. Trump says it’s a good day for him but it’s almost certainly a very, very bad one for him in Reality World.
[HARM to ONGOING MATTER]
Barr’s gloss on this report was an attempt at a whitewash. A quick review shows that the report is FAR less exculpatory than Barr maintained. Another note: The President’s written responses to the Special Counsel’s questions include, in almost every instance, “I have no recollection of…” or words to that effect.
Yep
The ‘ongoing matter’ being the attempted whitewash of the report…
Already on Twitter there’s a number of really damning things. And they knew it wasn’t possible to cover it all up; hence the outrageous spinning. Trump says it’s a good day for him but it’s almost certainly a very, very bad one for him in Reality World.
[HARM to ONGOING MATTER]
Barr’s gloss on this report was an attempt at a whitewash. A quick review shows that the report is FAR less exculpatory than Barr maintained. Another note: The President’s written responses to the Special Counsel’s questions include, in almost every instance, “I have no recollection of…” or words to that effect.
Yep
The ‘ongoing matter’ being the attempted whitewash of the report…