With Mueller silent, Barr interprets the special counsel’s Russia report — to the advantage of Trump
By Greg Miller Greg Miller national security, intelligence, terrorism Email Bio Follow May 1 at 7:10 PM The contentious hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee was on the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, but his voice was absent — as it has been for the last two years.
Trump himself sought to preempt the Senate hearing on the Mueller report, tweeting Wednesday morning a conclusion that Barr has repeatedly endorsed: “NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION.” Trump’s tweet also called the investigation “the greatest con-job in the history of American Politics!” The March 27 letter expressed dismay that Barr’s public description of the report had failed to “fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions.”
The sequence was an extension of a pattern established throughout the 22-month probe: Mueller methodically but mutely pursued lines of inquiry, while Trump publicly blasted the special counsel’s team, aiming to discredit its work and convince at least some voters that the inquiry amounted to a partisan conspiracy against his presidency.
That reputation for rectitude was largely responsible for the bipartisan support that greeted Mueller’s appointment as the special counsel in 2017. But as he settled into the job, he seemed even more determined to remain out of public view.
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