Dem senator: 'I do not deeply respect and trust the Barr summary'
Source: The Hill
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 03/26/19 09:16 AM EDT
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct.) joined calls for the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report, saying on Tuesday that he did not trust Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the findings.
“The issue here is not just whether there was complicity [in Russian election interference] that rose to a criminal level,” Blumenthal said on CNN’s “New Day.” “It’s about obstruction of justice, no exoneration there, and the judgment by William Barr may have been completely improper.”
Asked if he trusted Barr to say something publicly about Mueller's report, Blumenthal responded that he trusted the attorney general to comment on his own four-page summary, but said he believed Barr should come forward to testify publicly on the report's findings.
"I do not deeply respect and trust the Barr summary, which was designed to frame the message before the information was available. And he succeeded in creating headlines," he said.
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