Here was the biggest institutional crisis, to date, of the Trump presidency, contained in the contradiction between Mueller’s conclusion, which called on Congress to step in and act on the evidence collected, and Barr’s reinterpretation of the report, which told Congress that there was nothing more for it to do. Mueller wrote to Barr to object: The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon on March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions. . . . There is now public confusion about
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