Analysis: How the Mueller report revelations are complicating the lives of Richard Burr and other GOP senators
Sen. Richard Burr By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 10 at 8:16 AM A place you don’t want to be in Washington, D.C., is in the pages of Mueller report. Aside from the obvious subjects of the special counsel’s report, there are a number of Senate Republicans who don’t come off looking so good.
According to Mueller, Burr got a briefing by the then-FBI director, James B. Comey, in early 2017 — before Mueller was on the job — about who the FBI was investigating in its Russia-Trump probe. Is Burr trying to make amends by agreeing to do something that would upset the president? Burr’s conservative critics, including some Republicans senators, have started asking, along with legal and national security experts like Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department special counsel now at New York University.
Mueller spends several pages on how a then-aide for Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley was trying to find the emails that Hillary Clinton scrubbed from her private server — you know, the ones candidate Donald Trump asked Russians to find. Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, started quietly asking around for people to try to find them.
Then there’s Sen. Rick Scott . He is not actually in the Mueller report. But his election is wrapped up in it. Scott successfully unseated Democratic senator Bill Nelson in 2018. During that closely fought campaign, Nelson at the time warned that he had classified information that Russians might have hacked into Florida’s election system.
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