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A lot of crazy things have happened over the past 2.5 years ... but that so many people are simply accepting the conclusions of the Mueller report based on the word of an attorney general who wrote an unsolicited 19 page memo to DOJ bashing Mueller’s probe might be the craziest
The idea that any of us would take the word of Barr about the conclusions of Mueller’s report at face value, without seeing the underlying evidence, is practically surreal
And don’t get me started on media criticisms: have we all just collectively forgotten that more than a dozen Trump campaign aides met with Russian officials and virtually all of them lied about it. Or that Trump repeatedly & flagrantly tried to interfere w/the investigation
Were journalists simply supposed to ignore that? Were they supposed to ignore the fact that Trump’s son, campaign manager and son-in-law met with Russian officials promising dirt on Hillary Clinton (and lied about it) as if this wasn’t evidence of attempted collusion?
Do we all have collective amnesia over the president taking the word of Putin, repeatedly, over US Intel agencies on the question of Russian interference in the election?
Let’s be clear: none of know what Mueller found. None of us have seen the evidence. Until we do none of us know anything
And this guy ... who has literally spent his entire career screaming that practically everything said by a government official should be considered a lie running around spiking footballs based on the word of Bill Barr
I should add one thing: it’s entirely possible that Barr’s characterization of the report is accurate - no collusion & no obstruction. But it would be absurd to accept that at face value without seeing the full Mueller report
And kudos to @Smartypants60 for pulling up this astounding quote (in light of his comments the last 48 hours) from @ggreenwald in 2013 
