President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday urged major news networks to not allow on their shows several people, including Democratic lawmakers, who have been critical of the president, adding that the networks should report the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as a “complete vindication” of Trump.
“The issuance of these definitive findings comes after two years of Democrat leaders and others lying to the American people by vigorously and repeatedly claiming there was evidence of collusion,” Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for Trump’s campaign, wrote in the letter to the networks.
“They made many of these false claims, without evidence, on your airwaves,” the letter continued.
The Trump campaign letter comes a day after Attorney General William Barr released a 4-page summary of Mueller’s report indicating that there was no conspiracy or coordination between Russia and the president’s campaign. In addition, Barr’s summary also said he did not believe there was enough evidence that Trump obstructed justice.
“The only way to interpret these conclusions is as a total and complete vindication of President Trump,” Murtaugh wrote — even though Barr’s summary quoted Mueller’s submission as saying that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Murtaugh called on the networks to refuse six commentators who claimed there was Russian collusion: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and former CIA Director John Brennan.
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Trump’s campaign urged major news networks not to allow Democratic lawmakers who have been critical of the president on their shows, adding that they should report the conclusions of Robert Mueller’s report as a “complete vindication” of Trump https://t.co/cGNSW3Ijqz
— POLITICO (@politico) March 25, 2019
The Trump campaign is sending this memo to TV producers: pic.twitter.com/yhr03LAI7N
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) March 25, 2019
The crescendo of furious gaslighting following Barr's propaganda summary suggests a plan was place to exploit the gap between the submission of the report and public revelation of what's in it to delegitimize Mueller's actual findings and the ongoing investigations.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
Trump's "one weird trick" is the shameless public delegitimization of anyone aligned against his interests. Once again, we're seeing he's the GOAT at this evil art. It's what's made him the Houdini of industrial-scale white-collar theft.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
Barr's cover-up gambit means Mueller will certainly be called to testify under oath in the House. That's why we're getting the full-on blitz to mischaracterize his findings: to lock the media and public into a favorable narrative nowhere in evidence, before he actually speaks.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
The media's atrocious gullibility, which is letting this happen without serious resistance, is even more scandalous than the credulity that herded public opinion behind the invasion of Iraq. Because we already *know* this administration does nothing but lie.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
The Trump machine is making a lot of political hay with necessary legal distinctions. Barr says Mueller didn't establish conspiracy or coordination b/w the campaign & "the Russian government," which doesn't imply there wasn't plenty with Russians hard to pin as agents of Putin.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
Barr says Mueller supplies evidence of obstruction, then uses the fact that he doesn't establish conspiracy to a certain legal standard (which doesn't at all rule it out, in fact) to argue in a shady way that there was nothing to obstruct, so he let's Trump off scot-free.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
Trump has gone to pains to confuse people into accepting that the legitimacy of congressional oversight depends on a prior, narrow legal finding of criminality, which it has done everything it can to prevent. Having done it successfully, it's attacking the separation of powers.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
Trump's hand-picked AG (confirmed by a lapdog Senate, with a record of shielding presidents from scandal) telling us what the report says & sitting on it doesn't settle anything. But spinning it like it does to prevent congressional oversight tell us a lot. This is far from over.
— Will Wilkinson 🌐 (@willwilkinson) March 25, 2019
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