Thread by @usacsmret

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Conveniently, less than 24 hours before Barr was set to appear before the committee, the Washington Post ambushed the attorney general with a hit piece suggesting that his March memo summarizing the conclusions misrepresented Mueller’s views.

The screaming headlines left readers with the impression that Barr misled Congress and the American people. Numerous Democrats and progressive activists immediately demanded Barr’s impeachment.

Once again, it was all fake news.
Mueller complained to Barr that he wasn’t happy with the way THE MEDIA had construed Barr’s memo and that it would undermine the public’s confidence in the special counsel statute and particularly in him. Newt Gingrich put it well when he said:

"Think about this. The media that Mueller is complaining about are the people who are now using Mueller’s complaint to further distort what is going on. You couldn’t make this up."

Here’s what you need to know:

President Trump is still innocent. There was never any collusion with Russia.

When Barr wrote his memo summarizing his conclusions of the Mueller report, he asked the special counsel if he wanted to review it. Mueller declined. So, there’s no point in complaining about the media’s lazy journalism.

Mueller’s objections came after Barr released his memo but before he publicly released the entire Mueller report. Everyone has had plenty of time to decide for themselves whether the Barr memo accurately summarized the report.

The Post story is not news. It’s just another partisan hatchet job meant to delegitimize this attorney general who is vowing to investigate the deep state.

Mueller’s first indictments of Russians for interference in the 2016 elections came in February 2018. I believe Mueller likely knew then that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Yet he let the investigation drag on rather than release that fact in order to increase the left’s chances of victory in the 2018 elections. Perhaps we need another investigation of election interference.

Chairman Lindsey Graham noted that Hillary Clinton’s email server was wiped with BleachBit AFTER House investigators had issued a protective order for the server. Yet no one was ever charged with obstruction of justice.

Graham also noted that many of the multiple devices used by Hillary Clinton were never turned over to investigators. Some were physically destroyed with hammers. Yet no one was ever charged with obstruction of justice.

Graham said that one of the key obstruction claims against Trump stems from his decision to fire James Comey, which he had every right to do. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authored a very compelling memo outlining the reasons why Comey deserved to be fired.

Graham pointed out that Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer had no confidence in James Comey, that Bernie Sanders had called for Comey’s resignation and that House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler had called for the president to fire Comey.

Sen Charles Grassley noted that there was evidence of collusion between the Clinton campaign and foreigners to influence our election. The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid a foreign national (ex-British spy Christopher Steele) to produce a dossier that relied on Russian sources.

Grassley wanted to know whether Mueller, who spent two years and $30 million investigating Russian influence in the election, had considered whether the Steele dossier was Russian disinformation. Barr said he will look at that and at the origins of the entire collusion narrative.

John Cornyn noted that “defensive briefings” by the government are routine in counterintelligence investigations, yet the Trump campaign was never given one. Cornyn said that the failure to do so was “extraordinary,” and Attorney General Barr agreed,