.MaddowBlog: AG Barr’s oddest falsehood: Pres. Trump ‘fully cooperated’ with Mueller.
There’s probably no point in scrutinizing each of Attorney General Bill Barr’s errors of fact and judgment during yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but there was one area of interest that stood out for me.
BARR: I don’t think, well obviously, since I didn’t find it was obstruction, I felt that the evidence could not support an obstruction. But that’s not the only the problem. We also know that the president refused to sit down with investigators, and when he agreed to answer written questions, Trump’s answers were deemed “inadequate” – and in some cases, “incomplete or imprecise”– by Mueller and his team.As part of the same back and forth during yesterday’s hearing, we were treated to this exchange:
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