Don Lemon on Trump and AG Barr: 'There appears to be collusion'
Don Lemon didn’t mince words Tuesday night when he made a case for collusion between Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr concerning how the Mueller report was handled. It was reported earlier in the day that in late March, Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter to Barr expressing frustration with Barr’s four-page summary of the report. In the letter, Mueller reportedly wrote that the summary failed to fully capture the context, nature and substance of the full report, and that it caused public confusion about critical aspects of the report.
“Someone, who actually works for the American people, is working on behalf of this president,” Lemon said of Barr. “Talk about no collusion in Russia, there appears to be collusion between the president of the United States and the attorney general.”
And Lemon doesn’t believe anything that’s happened concerning Trump, Barr and the Mueller report is a coincidence.
“You don’t have to be a lawyer to understand why William Barr got this job,” Lemon said, “how he auditioned for it, how he conducted himself during the hearings and how he conducted himself at the initial press conference with the letter, and the second press conference. He tried to shape the narrative.”
Trump, along with many Republicans, claimed that Barr’s summary completely exonerated him of colluding with Russia and obstruction of justice. But given the new information about Mueller’s letter, Lemon had a question for the Republican Party.
“When you’re supposed to be the party of the rule of law,” Lemon said, “when you have a president and attorney general who are not fighting for the rule of law, but are carrying the water for indecent and inappropriate and possibly even unlawful behavior, what is gonna upset you? What are you gonna take issue with?”
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon airs weeknights at 10 p.m. on CNN.
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