Trump highlights column saying his adversaries have lost momentum

President Trump early Monday morning tweeted out a column claiming his critics had lost momentum since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

 “If Democrats could still claim that Trump and Russia conspired in 2016, they would still have the upper hand. But after Mueller, that claim is no longer possible, and Democratic hopes are dwindling,” conservative columnist Byron York wrote in the Washington Examiner.

{mosads}“The Mainstream Media hates to cover this!” Trump said, sharing a tweet by Fox News’s Brit Hume linking to the column.

The Mainstream Media hates to cover this! https://t.co/EMhAVWCjVf

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2019

Mueller’s report, released last month in a redacted form, found that while the investigation did not establish coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, it could not make a conclusion on obstruction of justice.

Congressional Democrats have subpoenaed Attorney General William Barr for the unredacted report and underlying evidence in the investigation, and voted to hold him in contempt when he refused. The White House invoked executive privilege to shield the material on earlier this month.

Mueller has disputed Attorney General William Barr’s initial characterization of the report before its redacted release, writing his summary in March caused “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.”

“This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations,” Mueller wrote.

Despite this pushback, Trump has repeatedly characterized the report as fully exonerating him, often while attacking Mueller’s impartiality.

On Sunday, responding to Rep. Justin Amash’s (R-Mich.) claim that the report details impeachable offenses, Trump tweeted that the report was written by “18 Angry Dems who hated Trump” but “was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION.”