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love the analogy but i think he's more Ferengi with the rules of acquisition..![]()
A week after Barr’s summary – and after some pretty successful spin from the Trump team that produced a lot of favorable coverage – there’s been no reaction at all from the electorate.
On March 22, the day Mueller’s report was delivered, FiveThirtyEight estimated that Trump’s approval rating was at 41.9 percent and his disapproval at 52.9 percent. By March 31, he had inched up to 42.1 percent approval and stayed flat at 52.9 percent disapproval. It’s possible that the mix of polls or random fluctuations are masking a small improvement. It’s also possible that the news has been slow to reach those who pay less attention to politics. But those theories are increasingly difficult to buy as the days go on and the story fades. Nor are polls about the investigation showing any radical shift toward Trump. So it seems likely that Mueller’s report isn’t changing many minds.



"They" would be the DOJ, not Congress. The House committees only voted to issue the subpoenas today. Now we wait to see if there's a court battle where Congress' constitutional authority for oversight is supported as it should be.Are they FINALLY releasing the rest of the report or just doing the subpoena? From what I heard so far that subpoena's will be going out....
Barr claims to be working on a *redacted* report, to be released in a few weeks. The House committees want the *unredacted* report, so they can see what is being left out. They may not release the unredacted version to the public, because people investigated and not charged should not be tarred just for being investigated. But they want to make sure nothing important is being left out. (Personally, I expect the full report to leak, once it is in many hands, because that's what Washington does). An example of important but not criminal: Trump and his subordinates may not have *directly* conspired with Russia, but they sure were happy to get their help, and worked through 3rd and 4th hand intermediaries to get it."They" would be the DOJ, not Congress. The House committees only voted to issue the subpoenas today. Now we wait to see if there's a court battle where Congress' constitutional authority for oversight is supported as it should be.
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Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed (Published 2019)
Members of the special counsel’s team have told associates that their findings are more troubling for President Trump than the attorney general indicated.www.nytimes.com
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I don't think the House is gonna settle for that.![]()
Attorney General William Barr Defends Handling Of Mueller Report
Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report faced accusations of being unduly sanitized in President Trump's favor.www.huffpost.com