Still hunting the witches.

Remember when trumpnuts were celebrating Mr. trump's vindication by the Mueller Report? Well, as it turns out, they were doing those victory laps and spiking the ball in the end zone a little too soon.

"Some members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team told associates that Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election did not fully represent their findings, according to a New York Times report published Wednesday.

Government officials and other sources familiar with the special counsel team's work revealed to The Times that Mueller’s nearly 400-page report would be more damaging for  President Donald Trump than what Barr had set out late last month.

"The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel’s investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained," The Times reported. The investigators also told The Times they had concerns that Barr’s narrative of the findings would have hardened public perception by the time the full report became public.

The special counsel's investigators said they thought Barr should have included more details of their findings in his letter, which was delivered on March 24, barely 48 hours after Mueller submitted his completed report." [Source] 

Of course no one is surprised that the man Mr. trump picked to cover up the Mueller Report and paint it in a favorable light to trump would do just that. What is surprising (and maybe not) is how the American press was quick to buy into Barr's  four page summary of the Report which concluded that trump and his crime family did not conspire with the Russians. They were all too willing to say that the witch hunt didn't snare any witches. The headlines all over the country and in major newspapers was that trump had been exonerated and the dark cloud over his presidency had been lifted. We all know that this was far from true. We had seen too much evidence to the contrary.

Now, as is to be expected, William Barr's cover up is in full effect. He will not release all the information in the report because it is now becoming increasingly clear that it is far more damaging to Mr. trump than first believed.

"Last evening, the Wall Street Journal editorialized that reporters and House Democrats were smearing Attorney General William Barr by implying that his summary of the Mueller report was anything other than completely faithful and representative. The Journal sneered at “the impression, abetted by a press corps that was fully invested in the collusion story, that Mr. Barr is somehow lying about Mr. Mueller’s real conclusions.” This was “preposterous,” the editorial explained, because Barr “surely understood on releasing the summary of conclusions last week that he would be open to contradiction by Mr. Mueller if he took such liberties.”

The editorial was published at 7:24 p.m. Minutes before, and probably too late to make any alterations, the New York Times broke the news that Barr was in fact contradicted. How could anybody think Barr would be stupid enough to lie when Mueller could expose him, asks the Journal, at almost literally the precise moment when Mueller’s team exposes Barr for lying.

The Times reports that Mueller’s famously leak-free team was moved to break its silence by Barr’s slanted summary of its work. The news from the Times, as well as the follow-up report from the Washington Post, conveys very little information about the substance of the report. There’s no reason to doubt Barr’s conclusion that Mueller was unable to establish a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russian government. Whether the unflattering information in the report contains evidence of noncriminal misconduct with Russia — remember, collusion is not a crime — or centers entirely around obstruction of justice remains to be seen.

It does seem clear, though, that Barr has not been dealing from the top of the deck. More evidence of his bad faith can be found in his putative reason for abridging Mueller’s conclusions. The special counsel’s report provided summaries of its work. The Times, apparently relying on Justice 
Department sources, reports that Mueller’s summaries could not be published, because they “contain sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand-jury testimony and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.”[Source] 

So it looks like we are back to square one. Put the ball down trumpnuts. This game is going into overtime.