John Dowd, the President’s legal counsel, says that Mueller distorted his words. Fortunately, there is a transcript:

Here are Dowd and Dershowitz discussing this issue on the Sean Hannity show:

The full transcript shows that Dowd was being very careful not to obstruct the investigation, and that the Mueller report’s ellipses seemed calculate to hide that effort. And, Scott surmises, this attempt at manipulating transcripts might not be limited to Dowd:

The report finds the message potentially obstructive: it “could have had the potential to Flynn’s decision to cooperate, as well as the extent of that cooperation.” In its analysis of the message, the report states: “Because of privilege issues…we could not determine whether the President was personally involved in or knew about the specific message his counsel delivered to Flynn’s counsel.” I reviewed this part of the Mueller Report here, citing all relevant pages and noting that the Trump attorney leaving the message goes unnamed in the report. …

… And that’s not all. For some reason or other, the government has failed to produce additional documents responsive to Judge Sullivan’s order. The CNN story notes: “Regarding the Kislyak call, another key piece about Flynn in the Mueller report, prosecutors appear to say they don’t believe they need to hand over other recording transcripts they may have involving Flynn, because they were not used in his sentencing recommendation. But their explanation in the filing Friday isn’t extensive.”

Something’s happening here. I do believe that Attorney General Barr has his hands full in trying to get to the bottom of it.

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