U.S. attorney general pressed for evidence clearing Trump
Washington - Two weeks after he cleared President Donald Trump in the Russia meddling investigation, Attorney General Bill Barr faces mounting pressure to show the full evidence behind his decision.
News reports, citing unnamed members of Mueller's staff, said Barr ignored the summaries that Mueller's team prepared for public release, and instead issued his own on March 24, in which he peremptorily cleared the president of any wrongdoing. "If we give the Democrats all 400 pages unredacted, that's not going to be the end of the inquiry. And they're going to want another thousand pages that went into making that," he said on"Fox News Sunday.""This is a show by the Democrats."
In his four-page summation of the 22-month investigation on March 24, Barr said that Mueller found no evidence of collusion between Trump's campaign and the Russian government in the 2016 election, and that there was insufficient evidence to charge Trump with obstruction. Then a Washington corporate attorney, Barr declared -- without knowledge of the internal work of the Russia probe -- that"Mueller's obstruction theory is fatally misconceived" and based on"a novel and legally unsupportable reading of the law."
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