A redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on the probe into the Russia links of US President Donald Trump’s campaign team will be released Thursday, the Department of Justice announces.
The release of the 400-page report will come more than three weeks after Attorney General Bill Barr’s controversial summary allowed Trump to declare it “a complete and total exoneration” of him, after nearly two years of investigation.
Barr said Mueller found no evidence that Trump’s 2016 campaign team conspired to collude with Moscow to influence the election. The attorney general also said there was not enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
William Barr, then US attorney general nominee, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
But Mueller himself took no stance on the weight of the evidence of obstruction, Barr noted, raising doubts over whether Trump had truly been exonerated by the report.
Barr has been under pressure since his March 24 summary to release the entire report, which wrapped up a 22-month investigation that saw 34 people charged, including six former Trump aides.
But he has stressed that he will only release a version with intelligence information and secret material from the investigation grand jury convened by Mueller blacked out.
— AFP
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