Monterey GOP on Mueller findings: “good for the country”
Monterey County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Gorman spoke with KION just hours after Attorney General Willliam Barr released his summary of the Mueller Report.
“I think it is good for the country to have this behind us. I think the collusion story is now debunked,” Gorman said. He is not surprised by the result of the Special Counsel investigation into President Trump and Russia. The summary, released by Barr on Sunday, writes that there was no collusion found between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Gorman wants to now shift the focus to how the investigation got started. He says there were bad actors in the Obama Administration and the FBI.
“The misuse of the bureaucracy during the Obama administration – opening up the investigation in the first place on very thin evidence. The Steele Dossier was potentially a crime in itself. So, I don’t think that the end of the Russian interference and politcal meddling story is over,” Gorman said.
But political analyst David Anderson says the investigation need to happen because of how serious the charges against President Trump were, and we should be skeptical over what has been released so far – a four page summary of the independent Mueller Report, by Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr.
“That’s a very political document, by nature, even though it’s the Attorney General. Congress is pushing back and saying we need to see the full report,” Anderson tells KION.
Barr quoted the Mueller report’s findings of no Russia coordination and a lack of obstruction of justice evidence. Anderson believes that more information from the report is needed, and Barr promised to make more available. A lack of evidence, Anderson says, could be the result of strict limits on investigating a President.
“In a court of law, you have to be very careful. ‘Who was connected with what agent, doing what.” That is a very difficult thing. Mueller was not able to interview Trump personally,” Anderson said.
