The Justice Department has announced that they plan to release a redacted version of the Mueller report this Thursday. We don’t know exactly how much information will be redacted—if it will just be details related to national security or if it will be as skewed as Attorney General William Barr’s initial summary. Barr’s report did nothing but confirm whatever we already thought of Mueller’s investigation; Trump and his supporters latched onto the Trump was not found to have “conspired or coordinated with the Russian government” bit, while others focused more on the this report “does not exonerate” him from crimes part. No matter what the actual Mueller report says, hopefully we’ll just get some answers.
Here are a couple things I think I know for sure about the Mueller report:
1. There will be confirmation of the pee pee tape.
2. If that’s true, my friend Greg has to pay me $125 from a bet we had about this.
3. Trump supporters will just think the pee pee tape is great & fine.— Wendy Molyneux (@WendyMolyneux) April 15, 2019
But of all the people looking forward to/dreading the Mueller report’s release, Trump himself might be the most conflicted. Because this guy simply cannot pick a lane when it comes to his feelings on the report. Does he love the Mueller report or despise it? Oh sure, he says he hates it. He’s spent nearly two years railing against special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He’s called it “totally conflicted, illegal and rigged!” He’s called it a “witch hunt” more times than we can count. (187 on Twitter.) He is clearly not a fan of the Mueller investigation.
Except when he is.
Because sometimes he loves the Mueller investigation. Like when he incorrectly inferred that it proved his “total exoneration.”
No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2019
Or when he thought that one tidbit from it should be receiving a lot more attention.
President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
Trying to keep all this straight, he hates the Mueller investigation and thinks it’s a made-up witch hunt, except when it reveals something damning about a person who once worked for Obama, in which case it then deserves all the attention from news outlets that he’s spent his tenure in the White House also calling “fake.” Got it. Very legal, very cool.
kinda weird thing to say about a report that fully and indisputably exonerates you https://t.co/Ak24bxVsZ1
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 15, 2019
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