A judge has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over an internal memo from March 2019 that then-Attorney General Bill Barr cited as his reason not to charge former President Trump with obstruction of justice following the Mueller investigation. The memo concluded that the evidence assembled by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 election would not support an obstruction prosecution of Trump. "It's time for the public to see that, too," District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in a ruling released Tuesday. In March of 2019 Barr penned a letter to Congress reportedly summarizing the conclusions of the Mueller investigation before it was released publicly, and clearing Trump of obstruction of justice. Barr and officials at the DOJ -- who determined there was insufficient evidence of obstruction.

Source: Fox News May 04, 2021 23:26 UTC