Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Other Candidates React to Mueller Report [View all]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/democrats-mueller.html

By Matt Stevens
April 18, 2019

Several Democratic presidential candidates assailed Attorney General William P. Barr on Thursday for holding a news conference before the release of the special counsel’s report, arguing that it was an attempt to pre-emptively protect President Trump from any potentially damaging findings.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called Mr. Barr’s Thursday morning news conference “a disgrace” and said he had been “acting as if he’s the personal attorney and publicist for the president.”

Senator Kamala Harris of California said Mr. Barr’s media briefing had been “filled with political spin and propaganda” that “should concern us all.”

Mr. Barr “acted more like the president’s defense attorney than our nation’s attorney general,” Ms. Harris said. And like several other Democrats competing for the chance to run against President Trump in 2020, she demanded that Mr. Barr deliver the full report to Congress along with all of the investigative materials that informed its conclusions....