The Trump White House and 2020 reelection campaign are not worried about the fallout from Thursday’s release of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report clearing President Trump of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 election.
“Not at all. No,” said Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a senior adviser to the reelection campaign.
Instead, she said, former Obama administration officials should be concerned because it may include details about their “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016.
Long the subject of speculation inside the White House, Attorney General William Barr testified recently that he believed spying did occur in 2016.
“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” he said, adding, “spying did occur.” He plans to investigate.
Trump said of the Mueller report, “If anything I think it’s going to look damaging possibly for the Obama administration with spying on our campaign.”
In her family, she said that “no we’re not worried” about the redacted version of the report being released by the Justice Department.
“We have known from day one that we did not collude with Russia, we’ve all said it, the president has said it,” she added in an interview.
“There is really nothing that worries us about the report being released. I just think that people are ready to move on. We’re happy to have it out,” added Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, and who recently announced that they were having a second child.
