WASHINGTON ― Attorney General William Barr, appearing to play the role of President Donald Trump’s defender, held a bizarre news conference Thursday morning ahead of the expected release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s highly anticipated report. “President Trump faced an unprecedented situation,” Barr said at the news conference held at the Justice Department. Following that review, Trump decided not to assert executive privilege to redact information within the report, though he would have been “well within his rights to do so,” Barr said. “The president confirmed that, in the interests of transparency and full disclosure to the American people, he would not assert privilege over the special counsel’s report,” Barr said Thursday. “Accordingly, the public report I am releasing today contains redactions only for the four categories that I previously outlined, and no material has been redacted based on executive privilege.”

Source: Huffington Post April 18, 2019 13:48 UTC