'This is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.' Pres. Trump asserts executive privilege on full Mueller report as Democrats vote to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege concerning the full, unredacted report from special counsel Robert Mueller just as Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, were voting to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not turning over the unredacted report and underlying materials in response to a committee subpoena.
The contempt vote and the executive privilege assertion are the first moves in a process to censure the attorney general and fight for the documents in court. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the top Republican on the panel, said Democrats were moving ten times faster to condemn Barr than Republicans did to hold then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over a subpoena for DOJ documents in 2012.
Nadler responded in a statement Tuesday night, saying"in the middle of good faith negotiations with the Attorney General, the Department abruptly announced that it would instead ask President Trump to invoke executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena. This is, of course, not how executive privilege works. The White House waived these privileges long ago, and the Department seemed open to sharing these materials with us earlier today.
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