Over the two and a half weeks since Attorney General Bill Barr released a four page “summary” of the Mueller report’s findings, President Trump has gone from jubilant claims of exoneration and calls for the release of the full report to increasing resistance to the report ever being released and renewed claims that the members of the Special Counsel’s Office are guilty of “dishonest and treasonous acts.”
The key shift took no more than 10 days.
Here is a quick list of the President’s comments as he relearned to hate Bob Mueller, his investigation and his report all over again.
March 20th: “Let it come out. Let people see it. That’s up to the Attorney General.”
March 24th: “No collusion, no obstruction, complete and total exoneration.”
March 24th: “It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. There as no collusion with Russia. There was no obstruction, none whatsoever.”
March 25th: On releasing the Mueller report: “That’s up to the attorney general but it wouldn’t bother me at all.”
March 28th: “After three years of lies and smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead.”
March 28th: “The special counsel completed its report and found no collusion and no obstruction.”
April 2nd: “Robert Mueller was a God-like figure to the Democrats, until he ruled No Collusion in the long awaited $30,000,000 Mueller Report. Now the Dems don’t even acknowledge his name, have become totally unhinged, and would like to go through the whole process again. It won’t happen!”
Robert Mueller was a God-like figure to the Democrats, until he ruled No Collusion in the long awaited $30,000,000 Mueller Report. Now the Dems don’t even acknowledge his name, have become totally unhinged, and would like to go through the whole process again. It won’t happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2019
April 2nd: Demands to release the report a “disgrace”, release “somewhat of a waste of time.”
Trump: demands for release of the full Mueller report are a "disgrace" pic.twitter.com/dxkC6XL26L
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 2, 2019
"somewhat of a waste of time" …. Trump comments on whether Mueller Report should be released. pic.twitter.com/ISCzdUKUMK
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 2, 2019
April 2nd: “There is no amount of testimony or document production that can satisfy Jerry Nadler or Shifty Adam Schiff. It is now time to focus exclusively on properly running our great Country!”
There is no amount of testimony or document production that can satisfy Jerry Nadler or Shifty Adam Schiff. It is now time to focus exclusively on properly running our great Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2019
April 4th: “There is nothing we can ever give to the Democrats that will make them happy.”
There is nothing we can ever give to the Democrats that will make them happy. This is the highest level of Presidential Harassment in the history of our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2019
April 6th: “Why should I be defending a fraudulent Russian Witch Hunt. It’s about time the perpetrators of this fraud on me and the American People start defending their dishonest and treasonous acts.”
Why should I be defending a fraudulent Russian Witch Hunt. It’s about time the perpetrators of this fraud on me and the American People start defending their dishonest and treasonous acts. How and why did this terrible event begin? Never Forget!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 6, 2019
April 8th:
“Jerry Nadler is not entitled to this information. He is doing this to get it to the Democrat 2020 nominee.” @KatiePavlich
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2019
April 8th:
The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get. It will never end, but that’s the way life goes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2019
