Trump Exerts Executive Privilege Over Unredacted Mueller Report: Nadler is Pandering to ‘Radical Left’
President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege over Robert Mueller‘s entire unredacted report in response to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler proposing a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress.
“Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the attorney general’s request, the president has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced in a statement today.
Sanders also accused Nadler of just trying to “distract from the President’s historically successful agenda and our booming economy” by pursuing the unredacted report.
“Neither the White House nor Attorney General Barr will comply with Chairman’s Nadler’s unlawful and reckless demands,” the press secretary stated.
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— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) May 8, 2019
“It is sad that Chairman Nadler is only interested in pandering to the press and pleasing his radical left constituency,” Sanders added later in the memo. “The American people deserve a Congress that is focused on solving real problems like the crisis at the border, higher prescription drug prices, our country’s crumbling infrastructure, and so much more.”
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd sent a letter to Nadler earlier today explaining the executive privilege decision.
“We are disappointed that you have rejected the Department of Justice’s request to delay the vote of the Committee on the Judiciary on a contempt finding against the Attorney General this morning,” Boyd wrote. “This is to advise you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.”
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