At a previously scheduled White House event on Thursday, President Trump made his first public remarks on the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
At a previously scheduled event for the Wounded Warrior Project at the White House on Thursday, President Trump made his first public remarks on the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. After thanking two congressmen — Reps. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., and Jim Baird, R-Ind. — Trump said they were “having a good day.”“There never was, by the way, and there never will be,” he said. “And we do have to get to the bottom of these things.
Before the report was released, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, defended the president as he spoke about the release of the redacted version at the Department of Justice on Thursday. “President Trump faced an unprecedented situation,” Barr said. “As he entered office and sought to perform his responsibilities as president, federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office and the conduct of some of his associates. At the same time, there was relentless speculation in the news media about the president’s personal culpability.
“Attorney General Barr’s regrettably partisan handling of the Mueller report, including his slanted March 24th summary letter, his irresponsible testimony before Congress last week, and his indefensible plan to spin the report in a press conference later this morning — hours before he allows the public or Congress to see it — have resulted in a crisis of confidence in his independence and impartiality,” said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a joint...
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