House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday tore into Attorney General William Barr, accusing him of “waging a media campaign on behalf of President Trump” ahead of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Flanked by other Democratic members of the Judiciary committee, Nadler took aim at Barr over his decision to not hand the report over to Congress until after the attorney general holds a press conference on the topic. Nadler was also critical of Barr following a New York Times report that the Justice Department has briefed the White House on Mueller’s findings.
“Rather than letting the facts of the report speak for themselves, the attorney general has taken unprecedented steps to spin Mueller’s nearly 2 year investigation,” Nadler said.
He claimed that those moves, as well as Barr’s brief letter to Congress in March summarizing Mueller’s core conclusions, are allowing the attorney general to “put his own spin” on the special counsel’s findings.
“The fact that the attorney general is not releasing even the redacted report to Congress until after his press conference will again result in the report being presented through his own words, rather than the words of special counsel Mueller,” Nadler said.
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Rep. Jerry Nadler: "Rather than letting the facts of the report speak for themselves, the Attorney General has taken unprecedented steps to spin Mueller's nearly two-year investigation." https://t.co/qRQQ8KcG1k pic.twitter.com/9LK390B83h
— The Hill (@thehill) April 18, 2019
HAPPENING NOW: Democrat House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler is holding a press conference on the Mueller report and the White House being briefed on it before it was made public. https://t.co/YiPbxPodoX pic.twitter.com/a1HdBKoaLs
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 18, 2019
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