Trump's tweet on 'total' declassification of Russia docs not an order, White House tells judge
When President Donald Trump tweeted that he had authorized the full declassification of all documents having to do with the Russia investigation, he didn't mean it literally and didn't intend to make information from the Mueller investigation public, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said in a court filing Tuesday.
Trump was responding to a tweet from conservative journalist and author Paul Sperry, who had written,"When all the documents are finally declassified, and all the redactions removed from reports, the nation will see that the FBI and CIA not only knew the Russia 'collusion' allegations against Trump were a political dirty trick, but that they were in on the trick."
Democrats contend that Barr's investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation is politically motivated and aimed at helping Trump's re-election campaign. Some documents from the investigation have been released by Republican Senate committees conducting similar investigations. "It seems to me when a president makes a clear, unambiguous statement of what his intention is that I can't rely on the White House counsel's office saying, 'Well, that was not his intent,'" Walton said at a court hearing last week, according to The Washington Post.
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