If the Mueller report exonerates Trump, why write a 'counter-report'?

[babylonsister]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/if-the-mueller-report-exonerates-trump-why-write-counter-report?cid=sm_fb_maddow&fbclid=IwAR27p8air3tZs2tV73FTsFwMj-OX0DIxI4cdSvraBET6VmtBg6DcuYwYOV8

If the Mueller report exonerates Trump, why write a ‘counter-report’?
04/17/19 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen


If all goes according to plan, Attorney General Bill Barr’s office will release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s findings tomorrow morning, which should shed some additional light on the Russia scandal and Donald Trump’s relation to it.

Soon after, however, we may also see a separate report from the president’s defense attorneys. The Wall Street Journal reported a few days ago:

Lawyers for Mr. Trump have for months been preparing a counter-report. It is now 140 pages long, but lawyers want to whittle it down to about 50, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in an interview.

Mr. Giuliani said Mr. Trump’s lawyers expect the bulk of their report to focus on the topic of obstruction of justice and plan to scrap most of the material on collusion.

How attorneys could spend months writing a response to a report they have not seen – and up until recently, did not exist – is not at all clear.

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But as amusing as it’s been to watch Giuliani dissemble over the course of several months, there’s an overarching question that Team Trump hasn’t yet addressed: if the Mueller report exonerates the president, why in the world would his lawyers feel the need to release a counter-report at all?

Just three weeks ago, Trump told reporters, in reference to a document he had not read, “The Mueller report was great. It could not have been better.”

A day earlier, the Republican published a tweet in which he said the Mueller report had led to his “total EXONERATION.”

It’s against this backdrop that the president’s legal team is preparing its own document, intended to “counter” Mueller’s findings?

[Iliyah]

1. Smoke scene . . .

More bullshit, cover up, crapola, nothing to see here, move along . . .

But the fact is, Barr and the Republicans will make it worst because we know they are lying.

[sweetroxie]

2. Trump always needs to have the last word.

No matter what.

[BSdetect]

3. Its purely for "fool fodder" consumption.