Over the next few days, the Mueller report will be published. This was announced by Donald Trump's Justice Secretary Bill Barr. "Within a week," he said, he would be able to publish the special investigator's report on the Russia affair, Barr said during a congressional hearing in Washington. He wants to blacken him in parts.
Robert Mueller had sent his nearly 400-page final report to Barr on March 22 after nearly two years of investigation. Two days later, the minister issued a summary stating that the investigation had revealed no evidence of illegal cooperation between the Trump team and Moscow during the 2016 election campaign. Most recently, pressure from the opposition Democrats on Barr had increased the publication of the report.
To further suspicion of possible judicial obstruction by Trump Barr noted in his summary, Mueller had reached on this issue to no clear conclusion. However, the New York Times reported last week that some members of the Mueller team were frustrated at Barr's account of the investigation's findings. The results are "more worrying" for the president than the minister has described.
However, according to the newspaper, these Mueller workers did not want to comment concretely on the points in which the Mueller findings should be burdensome for the president. Trump has already celebrated the report as a "total relief".
Barr did not want to comment on the content of the Mueller report at its recent hearing by the House Budget Committee. He would, at his own discretion, publicize as much of the report as "I can," he said. By the end of March, he had already announced that he would publish the document by mid-April.