Barr admits he did not read Mueller’s underlying evidence

Published May 1, 2019 7:09pm ET



Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday he decided not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice without seeing the underlying evidence of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report.

“No, we accepted the statements in the report as a factual record. We did not go underneath it to see whether or not they were accurate. We accepted it as accurate,” Barr said of himself and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

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