Posted on 04/17/2019 8:08:02 PM PDT by bitt
After nearly two years of waiting, America will get some answers straight from Robert Mueller— but not before President Donald Trump's attorney general has his say.
Special counsel Robert Mueller drives away from his Washington home on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Outstanding questions about the special counsel's Russia investigation have not stopped President Donald Trump and his allies from declaring victory. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) View all (2) The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to release a redacted version of the special counsel's report on Russian election interference and Trump's campaign, opening up months, if not years, of fights over what the document means in a deeply divided country.
Even the planned release of the nearly 400-page report quickly spiraled into a political battle Wednesday over whether Attorney General William Barr is attempting to shield the president who appointed him and spin the report's findings before the American people can read it and come to their own judgments.
Barr will hold a 9:30 a.m. news conference to present his interpretation of the report's findings, before providing redacted copies to Congress and the public. The news conference, first announced by Trump during a radio interview, provoked immediate criticism from congressional Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Barr had "thrown out his credibility & the DOJ's independence with his single-minded effort to protect" Trump. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "The process is poisoned before the report is even released."
"Barr shouldn't be spinning the report at all, but it's doubly outrageous he's doing it before America is given a chance to read it," Schumer said.
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> The first step is in realizing that THEY are asking themselves the VERY SAME QUESTION.
The first step is realizing THEY forced this situation on purpose with us begging and pleading for them to stop at every single step of the way.
They are purely the aggressors here and made themselves so on purpose. They are driven by a will to power that has subsumed their humanity.
Our current support for Israel is also to be taken into account.
Yep - recorded the Barr presser and heard a long “pfffffffffft” as the Dems balloon lost all its air...
I am SO shocked!!
No; honey.
Just opening your mouth does that!
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