Mueller Report Drastically Mischaracterized

The American people have waited two years for the Mueller investigation to finish and finally, when the results have been examined and statements have been crafted, Attorney General William Barr swooped in and utterly destroyed a near impeccable investigation. 

After he finished the investigation, Mueller submitted a 2-volume, 438page report which extensively detailed the findings of his investigation

The report also consisted of executive summaries, which contained non-sensitive information that were specifically designed for public release. However, instead of using the summaries, Barr decided to release his own four-page summary of the entire Mueller Report.  

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This summary directly answered the two questions that everyone was asking: Did the Trump Campaign collude with Russia, and did President Trump obstruct justice?  Barr correctly stated Mueller’s conclusions on these two issues: no collusion and no obstruction.

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However, he left out why and how Mueller reached his conclusion, and the summary was so ambiguous that Barr was called into Congress to clarify his statements. 

However, in a weak move clearly showing that he knew he violated ethics rules, Barr only showed up to the Senate committee hearing to face Republicans and simply refused to testify to the house committee full of Democrats eager to question him.  

When investigators from Mueller’s team leaked that the summary did not capture what the report was saying, and that the summary drastically mischaracterized the report lawmakers from both sides of the aisle demanded that the report be released.

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It was then discovered that Robert Mueller himself sent a letter to Barr: “The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office's work and conclusions.”

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With Mueller’s letter and his investigators roaring for the report to be released to the public, Barr finally released the Mueller report and immediately after reading it democratic congressmen were in uproar.

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The report contained information which was much more enlightening than Barr’s summary and highlighted discrepancies between Barr’s statements, and what the report actually contained.   

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The most outrageous falsity made by Barr is Mueller’s decision to not indict and prosecute President Donald Trump. Barr decided to divulge that Mueller decided not to take any action against the president, but omitted that Mueller did this not because he could not find enough information, but because it was against the Justice Department’s policy to indict and prosecute a sitting president.

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Additionally, Barr stated that Mueller was unable to find a reason that Trump would obstruct justice, when the Mueller Report directly contradicted his statement.  

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In Volume II, Page 157, the report stated, “The evidence does point to a range of other possible personal motives animating the president’s conduct.”

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Not only did Barr directly lie about the Mueller report, his summary misrepresented what Mueller had found about the Trump Campaign.  The summary stated that there was absolutely no collusion with Russia, but again omitted that there was coordination found, just not enough to be collusion. 

In fact, on the first page of the first volume, the Mueller report specifically states that, 

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“The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.”

Barr directly lied about the Mueller report and caused the American public to believe that no evidence could be found which proved that Trump and his campaign committed crimes.  In reality Mueller made his decision not because of inadequate evidence, but because of Justice Department policy. The Mueller report directly stated multiple times throughout its pages, 

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"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”  Robert Mueller is subtly telling Congress and the public that while he did not conclude anything because of policy issues, he will refuse to say that Trump did not commit a crime because that simply is not true.  The evidence in the report is out in the open for Congress to make the right decision and begin impeachment proceedings immediately.