WH Simultaneously Calls Mueller Probe ‘Shameful,’ Touts Barr’s Summary Of It

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did some tightrope walking Monday morning, calling special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe “shameful” while touting Attorney General William Barr’s summary of it.

“We want to make sure we protect innocent people throughout this process, that we protect the sources and methods that the intelligence community uses,” Sanders told CNN’s John Berman, talking about publicly releasing the report. “Those are things that matter not just for this President but they matter for every President.”

“We want to make sure that a shameful process like this that has gone on for the last 22 months never happens to another American President,” she concluded.

“You keep saying ‘shameful process,’ again, while welcoming the findings of the Mueller report,” Berman interjected before moving into his next question

Neither Sanders nor anyone else in the administration has yet seen the full report, and all are reacting based off the summary Barr wrote.

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  1. If Trump were not so monumentally inept, his people would be touting how, in the end, Mueller and his people did the country a service by making clear that allegations of collusion were false. But no, they are mucking it up already.

    As someone more clever than I noted, Trump has the Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to mufflers.

  2. From light-years away you could have seen it coming that releasing the actual report would be ever so difficult because of the administration’s great respect and concern for the intelligence community and its confidential sources. Fucking despicable.

  3. Wonder if all the Rs who voted that the report should be released are now going to backtrack. And how they will justify backtracking.

  4. They just can’t accept anything with grace can they?
    Celebrating in the endzone a field goal that puts them ahead by 1 point with 14 minutes left in the 4th quarter

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