.MaddowBlog: Mueller investigation behind him, Pres. Trump enters the ‘overreach’ stage.
On Sunday afternoon, after Attorney General Bill Barr released his summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Donald Trump and his team were thrilled. Soon after, however, someone close to the president raised the prospect of the Republican being a little too pleased.
With this in mind, the president traveled to Capitol Hill yesterday to speak with Senate Republicans, and Trump chatted briefly with reporters before the private meeting. One started to ask the president about the Barr letter, when Trump interrupted. As best as we can tell, he was lying. We may not know much about Mueller’s findings – we’re relying on characterizations from Trump’s handpicked attorney general – but we know this presidential description of the unseen report is wrong. Q: Mr. President, you’re accusing the people who launched the investigation into your campaign of treasonous acts. How high up do you think it went?
But over the course of these few days, we’ve already seen Trump lie about the report he has not read. We’ve seen him peddle an anti-Obama conspiracy theory. We’ve seen his White House peddle other discredited conspiracy theories. We’ve seen his campaign lash out at Democratic “false claims” that were not actually false. We’ve seen Trump call for retribution against his perceived enemies. We’ve seen the White House seek the resignation of a House committee chairman who’s done nothing wrong.
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