The authors of volume 2, who struggled to reveal every detail of Trump’s moves to shut down or curtail the criminal investigation, practically had steam coming out of their ears. Barr’s letter appeared to the uninformed reader to say the opposite of what they painstakingly laid out in their report. For example, Barr wrote that none of Trump’s actions, “in our judgment,” were done with corrupt intent. Actually, the report’s authors had detailed four episodes in which they identified substantial evidence of Trump’s intent to thwart the probe.
