Earlier today, Donald Trump's attorney general William Barr released this redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
* You can read the full text of the Mueller report here.
The House Judiciary Committee plans to subpoena the full report.
Here are 20 questions the redacted Mueller report raises:
1) When did Donald Trump first decide to have James Comey fired?
2) When did Donald Trump decide he needed a pretext for the firing of James Comey?
3) When did Donald Trump decide to stay silent about Michael Cohen's false testimony to Congress?
4) When did Donald Trump first decide to try to have the Special Counsel removed?
5) When did Donald Trump first decide to discredit the Special Counsel report, which he had not yet read — and could not have read, because it did not yet exist.
6) When was Donald Trump first informed that Wikileaks was working with the Russian government's military security service known as GRU?
7) When did Donald Trump first decide to fire Don McGahn?
8) When was Donald Trump first informed that Michael Flynn would not share information about the investigation into Flynn's crimes?
9) When did Donald Trump first learn that Michael Flynn was told that Donald Trump considered Flynn's refusal to share information with Trump as 'hostile'?
10) When did Donald Trump first decide that he would not sit for an interview by the Special Counsel?
11) When did Donald Trump first recognize that sufficient damning facts existed such that if a Special Counsel were to be appointed, that would constitute, as Trump put it, “the end of his presidency”?
12) When did Donald Trump first decide to attack publicly the FBI, NSA, CIA, and other security services of the United States that were providing him with Confidential information?
13) When did Donald Trump first decide to try to limit what would be publicly disclosed about his son Donald Trump Junior's meeting with the Russian lawyer?
14) When was Donald Trump first informed that he had met with the Russian lawyer?
15) When did Donald Trump first decide to lie about the purpose of the meeting with the Russian lawyer?
16) When did Donald Trump first learn that Paul Manafort intended to share internal campaign data with a Russian?
17) When did Donald Trump first learn that recusals cannot be reversed?
18) When did Donald Trump first become aware of multiple contacts between his campaign and Russia?
19) When did Donald Trump first learn that George Papadopoulous was not an “excellent guy,” as Trump said, who belonged on Trump's national security team?
20) When did Donald Trump first decide to claim that Robert Mueller had conflicts of interests?
Below, read the full text of the Special Counsel's report, as redacted by William Barr.
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[Prepared with the assistance of an actual, real live attorney. Photoshop by @Xeni, source via Reuters]
