Analysis: Barr’s conclusions are undercut by his lack of familiarity with details of Mueller’s probe
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 1 at 4:34 PM On several occasions, Attorney General William P. Barr has been assertive. The investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, he declared in a four-page letter March 24, didn’t find that President Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia’s efforts to influence that election. What’s more, he and Deputy Attorney General Rod J.
“My question is,” she continued, “in reaching your conclusion, did you personally review all of the underlying evidence?”“We accepted the statements in the report as the factual record,” Barr said. “We did not go underneath it to see whether or not they were accurate, we accepted it as accurate. It made our — ”“You did not question or look at the underlying evidence that supports the conclusions in the report?” she asked. No, he said, nor did Rosenstein, to his knowledge.
By itself, that’s a remarkable admission: that Barr wasn’t familiar with what precisely Downer had said about the tip that kicked off the entire probe. But it also undercut an earlier exchange Barr had with Sen. Lindsey O. Graham , the chairman of the committee, who had worked at the outset to build a protective scaffolding around Trump by suggesting nefarious behavior on the part of Democrats and the Obama administration.
“In our country, we know it is illegal for a campaign and wrong for a campaign to share polling data with an American super PAC,” Booker said, “but we have here, documented, a level of coordination with a foreign adversary sharing polling data, and we seem to be, and your conduct seems to be, trying to normalize that behavior.”
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