Choice bits from the Mueller Report saga

The best excerpts we've seen so far are from Politico. A few of them. 

Barr: “President Trump faced an unprecedented situation. As he entered into office, and sought to perform his responsibilities as president, federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office, and the conduct of some of his associates. At the same time, there was relentless speculation in the news media about the president’s personal culpability. Yet, as he said from the beginning, there was in fact no collusion.”

Barr said he and Rosenstein “disagreed with some of the special counsel’s legal theories and felt that some of the episodes examined did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law.” …

The prosecutors complained about Trump’s written responses to questions: “[T]he president stated on more than 30 occasions that he ‘does not “recall” or “remember” or have an “independent recollection”’ of in  formation called for by the questions. Other answers were ‘incomplete or imprecise.’” (p. 417) --

Mueller writes “The president’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.” (p. 390)

The President called then-White House counsel Don McGahn at home on June 17, 2017, and asked him to call Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, tell him Robert Muller was conflicted and tell him he had to be removed. McGahn didn’t do that.