Trump allies say they’re ‘not concerned’ about the Mueller report by hunterw & nycsouthpaw
Bolstered by the knowledge that Attorney General William Barr has already declared he would not charge Trump with obstruction of justice and that Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of collusion with Russia, multiple sources close to the president said they were confident the report wouldn’t damage the White House.
Based on Barr’s summary, there is the potential that Mueller’s full report could include descriptions of unseemly behavior that the attorney general did not feel rose to the level of a crime. However, without criminal charges, the source said they were confident that any controversy over information in the report would blow over.
While Barr’s summary indicated Mueller did not find evidence anyone on Trump’s campaign cooperated with Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, it was less clear cut on the question of whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr wrote that Mueller “did not draw a conclusion - one way or the other” about whether Trump’s conduct constituted obstruction and instead left it to the attorney general to decide whether the actions uncovered by the investigation were criminal.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is a member of the president’s personal legal team, also said he was “not concerned” about the Mueller report. Giuliani described how Trump’s attorneys will attempt to issue their own rebuttal after the report is released on Thursday. Democrats have expressed doubts about Barr since his appointment as attorney general in February. Some of their concerns stem from the fact Barr sent the White House an unsolicited memo criticizing Mueller’s probe before he was nominated by Trump to lead the Justice Department.
“What it really comes down to is that people are upset for political reasons,” the source said of concerns about redactions. “They want to see the president and those close to him embarrassed regardless of whether they committed any crime.”Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney who was fired by Trump in early 2017, discussed the release of the Mueller report at an event Wednesday in New York City where he provided a barometer for judging Barr’s redactions.
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