WTF Just Happened Today?

Day 816: Hateful and inflammatory.


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1/ Attorney General William Barr will release a redacted version of Robert Mueller’s report to both Congress and the public on Thursday morning. The redactions will cover four categories: secret grand jury details, classified national security and intelligence specifics, material related to ongoing investigations and sections that could defame “peripheral� third parties wrapped up in Mueller’s probe. The release comes days after Barr told Congress he believed “spying� on the Trump campaign occurred during the 2016 election. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have already authorized the use of a subpoena to compel the Justice Department for the full report without redactions if they do not receive it this week. (New York Times / Washington Post / CNN / Politico / NBC News)

  • An insiders’ guide to the Mueller Report: How experts and political operatives will read the report. (Politico)
  • 2/ The House intelligence committee demanded that Mueller “mustâ€� brief them and provide “all materials, regardless of form and classification, obtained or producedâ€� during his 2-year investigation. Chairman Adam Schiff and Ranking Member Devin Nunes requested that Mueller and other senior members of his team brief the committee, in a letter sent March 27th to Barr, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Nunes has previously dismissed the Mueller report as a “partisan documentâ€� that he has no interest in reading. (Daily Beast / Axios / Politico)

    3/ Trump’s attorneys threatened legal action if an accounting firm complied with a subpoena from the House Oversight and Reform Committee to turn over 10 years of Trump’s financial records. Last month, the committee requested that Mazars USA turn over Trump’s personal and business finances. In response, Mazars asked for a subpoena before they would comply. (Politico)

    4/ Sarah Sanders claimed that members of Congress aren’t “smart enough� to understand Trump’s tax returns. Earlier this month, the House Ways and Means Committee formally requested Trump’s tax returns from the IRS, setting a hard deadline of April 23 to comply. (CNN / Washington Post)

    • There are 10 accountants in this Congress, including two senators and eight House members. Three Democratic members of Congress are also trained as certified public accountants. (
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