Trump-Friendly Spin on Mueller Report Puts Heat on DOJ's Barr
- ‘A particularly inappropriate spectacle,’ legal analysts say
- Justice Department official defends attorney general’s summary
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Ninety minutes before Robert Mueller’s final report on his Russia probe was released, Attorney General William Barr previewed it from a podium on the seventh floor of the Justice Department.
Barr declared the special counsel had found “substantial evidence” President Donald Trump’s actions toward the investigation were driven by his “sincere belief” it was politically tainted. Still, Barr said, the White House "fully cooperated" with the probe.