MUELLER REPORT: US attorney general Richard Barr’s letter hands Trump a big political victory, for now By J Brooks Spector parkhurst1
, offered the 10 key takeaways circulating in the national capital and beyond, as a result of the Barr letter:
Refusing to grant Mueller an interview now appears to have paid off handsomely for Trump. “The president refused to sit for an interview in which prosecutors could have probed his motivations. Instead, they had to rely on written answers to their questions – which were carefully vetted by the president’s lawyers. Trump also refused to answer any questions about his activities in the White House. He responded only to questions related to the period before he became president.
There is a lot we still just don’t know about all this. “Barr noted at the start of his letter that Mueller had the help of 19 lawyers and 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts and forensic accountants. The special counsel’s office also issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communications records, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence and interviewed around 500 witnesses.
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