'Mueller's team started to leak this week, to say that the report was a lot worse than we thought,' said Maher, 'and Attorney General Scissorhands didn't let us see the real deal.
While President Donald Trump has claimed that the recently completed special counsel investigation completely exonerated him, comedian Bill Maher isn't so sure and mocked Attorney General William Barr for allowing the White House to redact the full report before sending it on to Congress.
Last week, Maher called the Barr summary and his apparent reluctance to provide the full report to lawmakers, a"high-tech coup." And on Friday's Real Talk, the host said he received grief for this stance — at least until subsequent reports claimed that the full contents of the Mueller investigation may be more damaging to the White House.
"Mueller's team started to leak this week, to say that the report was a lot worse than we thought," he continued,"and Attorney General Scissorhands didn't let us see the real deal. And he's still busy redacting... by the time we see this, it's gonna be covered in more black ink than the governor of Virginia in 1984."
"It could be that Barr winds up doing what James Comey did at — remember the Hillary investigation? He comes out and says, 'Even though Hillary didn't do anything criminal, here's every little thing Hillary did wrong,'" expIained Maher."I have a feeling Barr might do the same thing. He might come out and say, 'Even though what Trump did isn't criminal... Here's every little thing Hillary did wrong.
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