By the time you read this, you may have already watched Attorney General Bill Barr’s press conference scheduled for 9:30 a.m. eastern time April 18, 2019 as I write this.
AS EXPECTED, the Democrats are fit to be tied that the attorney general announced that he has scheduled a press conference to release the document. How dare he not give Congress a preview.
Outrage was in messages from House Judiciary Committee members, including Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Hakeem Jeffries, from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer … accusing Barr of taking the unprecedented step to spin the report, rather than letting the facts of the report to speak for themselves.
Yet it is Nadler who has indicated that he wants to interpret the report in an effort to seek things he can pin on the president, saying that “(there) could be grounds for impeachment, there could be grounds for other actions, there could be things the American people ought to know. You know, you can commit complete betrayals of the public interest without committing impeachable acts. The standard is we have to protect the public from presidential misconduct.”
Nadler and others are trying to make something out of the fact that Mueller didn’t exonerate the president of obstruction, and while it is the task of the special counsel to decide whether a crime occurred or whether to indict someone for a crime, it is not his job to exonerate someone.
Nadler once said that he got into politics to “be part of something big,” and he’s trying his damnedest to find something big in the Mueller report. He has said that he plans to subpoena Robert Mueller to appear before his committee and that he intends to get the unredacted report. How pathetic.
Democrats and the media had better understand there’s a new sheriff in town in AG Barr, someone who will not be browbeaten as was former AG Jeff Sessions.
I understand that the report will not be as heavily redacted as earlier anticipated, and it is likely to contain unflattering details about the president’s efforts to control the Russia investigation, though it will not place the president in legal jeopardy.
May God bless the United States of America.
