‘He’s in a really good mood. He’s just very happy with how it all turned out’
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump was in the private quarters of his Palm Beach, Florida, club Sunday afternoon when two White House lawyers briefed him on the details of Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of the Russia investigation.
For Trump, it was a deeply satisfying end to one of the most fraught weekends of his presidency. Like everyone else in the country, he had been forced to wait, while in Washington, Barr and a small circle of officials at the Justice Department pored over Mueller’s report and decided what to make public.
On Friday evening, Trump and his wife, Melania, had dinner on the patio at Mar-a-Lago with their son, Barron, and the first lady’s parents. Cipollone and Flood then briefed Trump about Barr’s letter as he was preparing to leave Mar-a-Lago for the airport. “This is very good,” he said, according to Hogan Gidley, the deputy press secretary.
The White House followed that up with a statement that highlighted three passages from Barr’s letter: that the special counsel found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia; that Barr found no actions that constituted “obstructive conduct”; and that the Justice Department did not find evidence sufficient to “establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president, was among the president’s senior aides who took the opportunity to remind the public that what she had been saying all along — “no collusion” — was correct. Conway shared a photo to Twitter that showed her holding up signs that read “Conclusion? Collusion” and “Illusion Delusion.”
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