The Washington Post has published a report stating that Robert Mueller wrote a protest letter to William Barr, which he said that Trump's handpicked attorney general’s charm offensive in advance of the redacted report's release failed to capture the true 'context, nature, and substance' of the report's contents. Has Attorney General Bill Barr lied to the American people by downplaying the Russian threat?
There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
— ROBERT MUELLER, in a letter to Trump attorney general Bill Barr.
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The collection of excerpts below from Robert Mueller`s report represent, in CNN`s finding, the special counsel`s documentation of lies, false assertions, misleading omissions, contradictory statements and incorrect information passed from President Donald Trump and his associates to the American public and authorities. Each of these below was highlighted by Mueller in the redacted version of his report released April 18.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration to Attorney General William Barr last month about how the findings of his Russia investigation were being portrayed, saying...
Special Counsel Robert Mueller complained in a letter to Attorney General William Barr that his four-page summary of Mueller`s Russia report `did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance` of the investigation`s conclusions, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Washington Post - Special Counsel Mueller’s letter to Attorney General Barr In a letter to Attorney General William P. Barr, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote that he wanted his introduction and executive summaries released, and that Barr’s summary had sowed “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.”