Dems believe the special counsel’s grand-jury materials could aid their Ukraine investigation, according to a court filing.
Lawyers for the House of Representatives revealed on Monday that they have reason to believe that the grand-jury redactions in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report show that President Donald Trump lied about his knowledge of his campaign’s contacts with WikiLeaks.
The attorneys made the stunning suggestion in a court filing as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s bid for Mueller’s grand-jury materials, which have remained secret by law.
“Not only could those materials demonstrate the president’s motives for obstructing the special counsel’s investigation, they also could reveal that Trump was aware of his campaign’s contacts with WikiLeaks,” the lawyers wrote in the filing, which was in response to the Justice Department’s opposition to the disclosure of the grand-jury information.
To back up their claim, the House’s legal team — led by House General Counsel Douglas Letter — cited a passage in Mueller’s report about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s testimony that he “recalled” Trump asking to be kept “updated” about WikiLeaks’ disclosures of Democratic National Committee emails. There is a grand-jury redaction in that passage, the lawyers note.
“The text redacted … and any underlying evidence to which it may point are critical to the committee’s investigation,” they wrote.
“Those materials therefore have direct bearing on whether the president was untruthful, and further obstructed the special counsel’s investigation, when in providing written responses to the special counsel’s questions he denied being aware of any communications between his campaign and WikiLeaks,” they added.
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Lawyers for the House have revealed that they have reason to believe that the grand-jury redactions in Robert Mueller's report show that Trump lied about his knowledge of his campaign's contacts with WikiLeaks, Politico reports. https://t.co/WQsxjsyxbc
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 1, 2019
This would make sense to those of us who read it, yes. https://t.co/wDzRdAtRYt
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 1, 2019
Of course, Trump lied. He always lies. That’s his MO. Lie and obstruct.
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