WASHINGTON: Attorney General William Barr is detailing the redacted Mueller report. The Justice Department’s redacted version of the special counsel’s report on Russian election interference and the Trump campaign, comes nearly two years after the probe began.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find that President Donald Trump or members of his campaign worked with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. The “investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” Barr told a news conference.
Attorney General William Barr says special counsel Robert Mueller’s report recounts 10 episodes involving President Donald Trump that were investigated as potential acts of criminal obstruction of justice.
Barr says Mueller did not reach a “prosecutorial judgment” and that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded the evidence was not sufficient to establish the president committed an offense.
Lawyers for President Donald Trump reviewed the final redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report before its public release.
That’s according to Attorney General William Barr, who said in Thursday’s press conference that Trump’s personal attorneys requested and were granted access to the report “earlier this week.”
Barr says Trump’s lawyers “were not permitted to make, and did not request, any redactions.”
Attorney General William Barr says he will give Congress a redacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative report at 11 a.m.
In reaction to the report, President Trump tweeted; “Game Over.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2019
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