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Something's been niggling at the back of my mind and it feels crooked, bent and wrong.
The weekend before last, Trump sent off a torrent of wild and furious tweets about the Mueller investigation, the Steele dossier, Obama "spying", Page/Strzok ... /1
The weekend before last, Trump sent off a torrent of wild and furious tweets about the Mueller investigation, the Steele dossier, Obama "spying", Page/Strzok ... /1
By Wednesday of last week, March 20 - inexplicably - all seemed quite fine in Trump World. Within just three days of his weekend Mueller-rage, he had taken a 180 and suddenly had absolutely no problem with the report.
"Let people see it," he said. /2
nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/…
"Let people see it," he said. /2
nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/…
"That's up to the attorney general," he said.
Really? According to @neal_katyal, who wrote the Special Counsel regulations, that's really NOT quite true.
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Really? According to @neal_katyal, who wrote the Special Counsel regulations, that's really NOT quite true.
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And yet, that's exactly what Barr seemed to believe as well, as he took the last week to leisurely peruse through this 400 page document, which frankly, is shorter than each of the last 4 Harry Potter books.
Fascinating that both Trump & Barr seemed to believe that lie.
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Fascinating that both Trump & Barr seemed to believe that lie.
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And THEN, quite curiously, on that Wednesday, Trump proceeded to give the exact same "summary" that Barr ended up sending Congress four days later.
Two full days before we were told Mueller gave Barr the report.
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Two full days before we were told Mueller gave Barr the report.
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QUESTIONS:
1. Did Trump rage-tweet about the FBI on Mar 15-17 because he got a heads-up about the counter-intel part of the probe?
2. Bet. Mar 17-20, did Barr reassure him he was off the hook for collusion, he'd let the obstruction go, & he would hide parts of the report? /6
1. Did Trump rage-tweet about the FBI on Mar 15-17 because he got a heads-up about the counter-intel part of the probe?
2. Bet. Mar 17-20, did Barr reassure him he was off the hook for collusion, he'd let the obstruction go, & he would hide parts of the report? /6
I hope that @RepAdamSchiff , @RepCummings, and @RepJerryNadler find the answers to those questions because the results of this investigation are too important to America's future to leave in the hands of Trump's latest "fixer." /7x
