.MaddowBlog: White House opposition to disclosing Mueller report intensifies.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 4/2/19, 9:00 PM ET Trump appears to be changing his mind on Mueller report release Rachel Maddow reports on the latest in the fight for the release of Robert Mueller Trump Russia report to Congress and to the American public, noting that Donald Trump’s comfort with the release of the report is waning.
This week, that posture shifted. In a series of tweets, the president didn’t explicitly reject the idea of disclosure, but he questioned the value of letting members of Congress see the report. “Well, I think it’s ridiculous. We went through two years of the Mueller investigation. We have – I mean, not only that, you read the – the wording. It was proven. Who could go through that and get wording where it was no collusion, no nothing? So, there’s no collusion.
“These are just Democrats that want to try and demean this country and it shouldn’t be allowed…. I will tell you anything we give them will never be enough.”White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders added in a Fox News interview, when asked about House Democratic demands for the report, “I think it just shows again what sore losers the Democrats really are.”
So to recap, the White House wants Americans to believe the Mueller report fully exonerates the president and humiliates his perceived enemies. Common sense suggests Trump and his allies should be printing up copies of the report by the thousands and dropping them from helicopters, plastering it everywhere online, and urging conservative media to read it in a continuous loop.
Whatever the cause for the White House’s change of heart, lawmakers remain eager to receive the hidden document. The House Judiciary Committee gave Attorney General Bill Barr a deadline of today to produce the report, and unless Barr unexpectedly changes his mind, his office will ignore that deadline.
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