Webster
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(The Guardian) Democrats in the US House of Representatives will read the entire redacted Mueller Report today, starting a noon.
Lawmakers, led by Representative Mary Gay Scanlon, a top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, plan to livestream the reading from a Capitol hearing room.
Earlier in the week Scanlon told the Washington Post that she came up with the idea in response to persistent claims from President Trump’s supporters, that the report’s release exonerated him of collusion or obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s concluded, of course, that he could not exonerate Trump on obstruction.
“We have a Constitutional duty to share that truth with the American people,” Scanlon said in a release, adding the report’s conclusions could not be adequately “summarized in a tweet.”
Of course the redacted Mueller report has been available in text for weeks- so it’s unclear why reading it aloud is likely to convince anyone of anything. Not to mention that few Trump supporters are likely to tune into a livestream of congressional Democrats reading for hours on end.
Scanlon acknowledged to the Post that it’s a move intended to keep media attention on the report as Democrats pursue ongoing investigation and oversight of the administration.
“We’ve been saying for weeks that if you think there was no obstruction and no collusion, you haven’t read the Mueller report,” Scanlon said. “So the ongoing quest has been, ‘How do we get that story out there while we are waiting for the witnesses to come in?’”
...grandstanding there much, Dems?
Lawmakers, led by Representative Mary Gay Scanlon, a top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, plan to livestream the reading from a Capitol hearing room.
Earlier in the week Scanlon told the Washington Post that she came up with the idea in response to persistent claims from President Trump’s supporters, that the report’s release exonerated him of collusion or obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s concluded, of course, that he could not exonerate Trump on obstruction.
“We have a Constitutional duty to share that truth with the American people,” Scanlon said in a release, adding the report’s conclusions could not be adequately “summarized in a tweet.”
Of course the redacted Mueller report has been available in text for weeks- so it’s unclear why reading it aloud is likely to convince anyone of anything. Not to mention that few Trump supporters are likely to tune into a livestream of congressional Democrats reading for hours on end.
Scanlon acknowledged to the Post that it’s a move intended to keep media attention on the report as Democrats pursue ongoing investigation and oversight of the administration.
“We’ve been saying for weeks that if you think there was no obstruction and no collusion, you haven’t read the Mueller report,” Scanlon said. “So the ongoing quest has been, ‘How do we get that story out there while we are waiting for the witnesses to come in?’”
...grandstanding there much, Dems?
