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“While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
President Trump scored a significant political and legal victory on Sunday — and also, despite his win, couldn’t avoid misrepresenting what Mueller said about his conduct: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
When Barr and Rosenstein assessed possible obstruction of justice — the Comey firing, for example — Rosenstein’s analysis had to be complicated by the fact that he drafted the memo that Trump used to justify firing Comey bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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1/3: Let’s get real about what the media got wrong and right about Trump-Russia coverage. And, no, #Russiagate isn’t this generation’s WMD. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
2/3. Fresh off Bill Barr’s summaries of the Mueller report, the Steele dossier is back in vogue. And it’s being put to the same uses: misleading the public about the roots of the Mueller probe and the roots of much of the Trump-Russia media coverage: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
3/3 Anybody using the Steele dossier as an excuse to write off tons of great Trump-Russia reporting — or the Mueller probe itself — is doing so because they haven’t done their homework or they want to look the other way: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Barr now says that his 4-page letter last weekend wasn't really a "summary" of Mueller's report and he never intended to summarize 400 pages because that wouldn't have been in the "public interest." The technical legal term for this is "walking back your story."
Barr plans to release the Mueller report by mid-April and that the White House won’t see the document before it goes to Congress. 400 pages long, plus exhibits
It’s now apparent that there was no reason Barr couldn’t have waited a week to draft a more thoughtful, accurate and legally judicious letter about the Mueller report. Yet he rushed a letter last Sunday on a voluminous report he would have presumably been challenged to digest.
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In a shocker, a Kazakh bank says in a court filing that Felix Sater, President Trump's longtime business partner and a career criminal, considered using POTUS and Michael Cohen's proposed Trump Tower Moscow project to launder money bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A reminder: President Trump, Felix Sater, the Trump children and the Trump Organization all have an interesting history together. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“Sater not only met with Ilyas Khrapunov in Trump Tower to discuss laundering the stolen funds, but he also personally arranged meetings between Ilyas and Donald J. Trump to discuss possible investments.”
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Barr's 4-pg summary is:
1 pg on Russian interference.
1 pg on obstruction.
It quotes Mueller on obstruction: "While this report does not conclude that the Pres committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
It's Barr's short letter, not Mueller.
We need to see the report.
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But any lawyer would ask about what legal burden of proof Mueller was using.
Proof "beyond a resonable doubt"?
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