President Trump asserted his Executive Privilege on the Mueller Report. It really shouldn’t be necessary because the special counsel law gives the Attorney General to decide what to release. He doesn’t have to release a single word.
But, the real reason Democrats are attacking Barr and Trump is that they are scared to death that Barr and Horowitz will be sending a lot of bad characters (all Democrats) to prison. That could mean a nightmare in the 2020 elections. With a great economy and a lot of voters shifting to Trump, it could easily cost them the House.
President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege on the unredacted version of the Mueller report on Wednesday morning.
The president’s decision was detailed in a statement to reporters from White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
“Neither the White House nor Attorney General Barr will comply with Chairman Nadler’s unlawful and reckless demands,” Sanders wrote, after Barr issued a statement recommending that Trump claim executive privilege.
The White House said that Democrats and Nadler were trying to “redo” the Mueller investigation to distract the country from the booming economy.
“Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the Attorney General’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege,” the statement read.
The White House urged Democrats to move beyond the investigation and focus on more pertinent issues to the American people like the border crisis, prescription drug prices, and infrastructure.
“It is sad that Chairman Nadler is only interested in pandering to the press and pleasing his radical left constituency,” Sanders wrote.