That’s how the New York Times in March 2019 famously described Attorney General William Barr’s supposed exoneration of Trump following Barr’s reading of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Refusing to release the sprawling report, Barr instead put out a thin, four-page press release where he brazenly lied about Mueller’s contents, and claimed Trump was in the clear.
It was an audacious move by Barr, and it worked because the Beltway press eagerly played along, reporting that Trump’s Russia worries were not only over, but that Mueller’s unseen conclusions had given Trump’s re-election a “powerful boost.”
This week, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington confirmed Barr lied about the Mueller report
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