Analysis: How William Barr successfully pre-spun the Mueller report for Trump
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 19 at 11:55 AM There was a time when I thought the backlash against Attorney General William P. Barr’s Mueller report letter was a little overblown. Yes, Barr did some suspect things, including using few of Mueller’s own words. He also cleared President Trump of obstruction of justice, even though the report hadn’t.
That’s . . . not really what Barr said. In his letter summarizing Mueller’s principal findings, Barr said nothing about Mueller’s reasoning — just that “the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the Special Counsel views as ‘difficult issues’ of law and fact concerning whether the President’s actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction.”
... We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion. And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position. He — he was not saying that but for the OLC opinion he would have found a crime; he made it clear that he had not made the determination that there was a crime.
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