Do You Support Trump Asserting Executive Privilege Over the Full Mueller Report?

What’s the story?

• President Donald Trump has asserted executive privilege on the full, unredacted report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
• The assertion comes as the House Judiciary Committee, led by Jerry Nadler (D-NY), votes to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for the full report.

Here's the letter from the Justice Department:

What are people saying?

Supporters of the assertion

• In a letter to Trump, Barr asked the president to "make a protective assertion of executive privilege with respect to Department of Justice documents recently subpoenaed" by the House Judiciary Committee.  
• "Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the Attorney General’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

"It is sad that Chairman Nadler is only interested in pandering to the press and pleasing his radical left constituency. The American people deserve a Congress that is focused on solving real problems like the crisis at the border, high prescription drug prices, our country’s crumbling infrastructure, and so much more,” Sanders said.

Critics of the assertion

• Nadler called the impasse "a constitutional crisis” in an early-morning interview with CNN.
• "The Department's decision reflects President Trump's blanket defiance of Congress's constitutionally mandated duties," Nadler said in a statement.

"In the coming days, I expect that Congress will have no choice but to confront the behavior of this lawless Administration. The Committee will also take a hard look at the officials who are enabling this cover up."

•  "If allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction means the end of congressional oversight. No person—and certainly not the top law enforcement officer in the country—can be permitted to flout the will of Congress and to defy a valid subpoena," Nadler said as the hearing began.

What do you think?

Do you support Trump’s asserting executive privilege over the full Mueller report? Take action above and tell your reps, then share your thoughts below.

—Josh Herman