ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Monday [3-25-19] morning quarterbacks are out to get Robert Mueller. Fresh off the revelation that the special counsel skirted the question of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probe, Mueller is getting hit with abrupt criticism for not to pressing more forcefully for an in-person interview with the president. The second-guessing is a new phenomenon. For nearly two years, Democratic lawmakers and legal experts appeared largely willing to give the widely respected former FBI director the benefit of the doubt over his handling of the politically sensitive probe. But the dynamic changed after Attorney General William Barr publicly released on Sunday [3-24-19] his summary of Mueller’s work. The four-page document’s top-line findings said Mueller had not established that any members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government and that the special counsel opted not to say whether the president obstructed justice, choosing instead to lay out the evidence on both sides.”
–Darren Samuelsohn, “Mueller boosters turn critical over absent Trump interview,” Politico, March 25, 2019 7:14 pm