President Donald Trump said Sunday that “it’s totally up to the attorney general” whether or not to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report publicly when that report is completed.
Attorney general nominee William Barr was questioned extensively during a recent confirmation hearing on whether he would release Mueller’s report to the public. In a written response to a Senate questionnaire, Barr said that “Under existing Justice Department regulations, the Special Counsel’s report is to be ‘handled as a confidential document, as are internal documents relating to any federal criminal investigation.'”
“It’s totally up to the attorney general,” Trump told CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan in an interview aired Sunday.
He added, asked if he “wouldn’t have a problem if it became public”: “It’s up to the attorney general. I don’t know, it depends. I have no idea what it’s going to say.”
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It’s totally up to the stooge I put in place over there to cover this all up. Totally up to him.
Exactly. Just like it was totally up to Jeff Sessions to choose to recuse himself. Too bad I’m too young to remember how that turned out.
Also, regardless of Barr, Mueller has speaking indictments and a Democratic House conducting real investigations to get the story out.
In a nutshell, if the evidence supports conspiracy or that Trump is a Russian asset, there’s no way that gets locked up in the back of some file cabinet on the basement floor.
“…unless they involve Sec. Clinton’s emails.”
They were all covfefe boys, except for the Russian bloggers, and they drank vodka.
So fucking rude, on top of everything else. “Excuse me”. Condescending Dunning-Krueger, love it.