Multiple current and former White House officials-turned-witnesses for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are fretting that their identities will be exposed in the full report, outing them as the sources of damning information about President Donald Trump.
According to an NBC News report, many of them have contacted the Justice Department to determine if their names, or at least obvious clues about their identities, will be redacted from the report. The DOJ has reportedly stayed mum.
An NBC source close to the White House reported “breakdown-level anxiety” among those who shared information with Mueller.
The witnesses are parsing phrases spoken by Attorney General William Barr that information about “peripheral third parties” could be redacted if it would “infringe on the personal privacy.” But for now, the witnesses, like everyone else, will have to wait until Thursday to read all about it.
Let’s see who ends up in the clink and who goes on to a good job in the private sector. Jared might be asking his dad for pointers on making the most of prison life. I suspect our president, once pronounced by Dr. Ronny as fit enough to live for 200 years, will also be showing up at court in a wheelchair and pleading leniency based on onset of dementia.
Don’t worry, kids. If you conspired with Trump or Russia, including with the cover-up, but were not charged with a crime, your name and identifying info will be redacted. If you were merely a witness, that’s when you need to watch out.
Better do something complicit today and alert the guy at DOJ with the Magic Marker.
Yeah, like president purge don’t know their names.
Any of these ‘rats’ who stayed are tainted. It isn’t like by staying they somehow reduced the damage from Trump.
They have a fragment of a conscience left but not enough of one not to enable Steven Miller.
eff em.
There’s really one White House official whose “breakdown-level anxiety” concerns me, and I might just shorten that to “breakdown”.
May they all rot in their personal hells. Whatever their motivations were for providing information, it is unlikely that they did it for anything other than personal gain and/or ass-covering. Decent people would not have gotten involved with Trump in the first place.