Former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi on Thursday praised President Trump’s decision to waive executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings.
“If Donald Trump waived executive privilege on the report, that’s a big deal to me,” Rossi told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton.
“If I were the Trump people, [Rudy] Giuliani or Victoria [Toensing], they should pop the champagne because that’s a big deal, executive privilege waived,” he continued. “That really made me feel good.”
Attorney General William Barr confirmed in a press conference on Thursday that Trump declined to use executive privilege to keep portions of the report from Congress and the public after White House lawyers looked over a redacted version.
Barr submitted Mueller’s long-anticipated report to Congress on Thursday, making it available to the public. In the report, Mueller details the findings of his 22-month investigation, saying there was no evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian election meddling in 2016. Mueller also declined to take a position on whether Trump obstructed justice with the probe.
The report is redacted to hide grand jury material, classified information, details about ongoing investigations and information that could implicate the privacy of “peripheral” third parties.
— Julia Manchester
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