Monday News: “Barr Did What Donald Trump Hired Him to Do”; “Bill Barr’s Weasel Words”; “The Many Problems With the Barr Letter”; Trump NOT Exonerated; “Democrats must keep their eyes on the prize”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 25.

• One by One, Global Bond Markets Are Flashing the Same Warning
• ‘Time’s up, Theresa’? PM urged to set her own exit date to get Brexit deal
• William Barr Did What He Was Hired to Do (“He summarized the Mueller Report in the most favorable light possible to the Trump administration*.”)
• William Barr Did What Donald Trump Hired Him to Do
• No collusion, plenty of corruption: Trump is not in the clear (“On Mueller, the president’s hand-picked attorney general has had his say. On everything else, Democrats in Congress know they can still have theirs”)
• Democrats say Mueller report needs to be made public following Barr letter (“Give Congress the report. Give the public the report. Now.”)
• The Many Problems With the Barr Letter
  (Neal Katyal: “By unilaterally concluding that Mr. Trump did not obstruct justice, the attorney general has made it imperative that the public see the Mueller report.”)
• Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy, but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction
• BREAKING: AG Bill Barr’s Letter to Congress on Mueller Report “Principal Conclusions” (“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him”)
• Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop. (“The scandal may not be a crime. It’s a betrayal.”)
• How William Barr Did Old Man Back-Flips to Avoid Arresting Donald Trump
• If Trump Obstructed Justice, He Can’t Be Exonerated
• Bill Barr’s Weasel Words (“All the ways the attorney general is spinning the Mueller report to protect Trump.”)
• Trump did not collude with Russia. But he’s wrong to say Mueller exonerated him. (How does the Post know Trump didn’t collude with Russia?)
• The Question the Mueller Report Has Not Answered (“Good news, America. Russia helped install your president. But although he owes his job in large part to that help, the president did not conspire or collude with his helpers. He was the beneficiary of a foreign intelligence operation, but not an active participant in that operation. He received the stolen goods, but he did not conspire with the thieves in advance. This is what Donald Trump’s administration and its enablers in Congress and the media are already calling exoneration.”)
• ‘An illegal take-down that failed’: Trump and allies crow over Mueller report (The fact that they don’t understand that this investigation was 100% legal says a lot about Trump and his cultists.)
• Why Did Barr Share Only Four Incomplete Sentences from the Mueller Report?
• Mueller’s Unknown Reasoning Could Endanger American Democracy in 2020 (“It would be extremely troubling if he didn’t indict anyone for the Trump Tower meeting because of the First Amendment.”)
• Next Steps And Big Unanswered Questions As The Nation Moves Into Post-Mueller Era
• Pelosi wins breathing room on impeachment after Mueller findings (“The speaker appeared to be vindicated in urging Democrats to move slowly on impeachment.”)
• Juan Williams: Democrats must keep their eyes on the prize
• George Conway fires back at Sarah Sanders, says Mueller report ‘does not exonerate’ Trump
• Controversy over the Mueller report must not obscure this basic reality — and the real scandal of Donald Trump: Robert Reich
• Donald Trump isn’t being charged with obstruction — but Mueller didn’t exonerate him (“Trump appointee William Barr made the decision not to charge the president.”)
• Russia is a threat to American democracy, with or without collusion (“No collusion, yes problem.”)
• Barr’s Quick Decision on Obstruction Was Awkward. And Troubling.
• Mueller was clear in finding no collusion, but punted on the matter of obstruction (“Analysis: The special counsel deferred to his superiors — like the Marine officer he once was. Some experts found that curious, and Democrats seized on it.”)
• The Note: Robert Mueller punts to politics
• How Lawmakers Are Reacting to the Final Mueller Report
• Mueller report doesn’t say what GOP says it does (“Mueller’s primary mission was to see if he could establish an actionable case, and Barr’s letter said he couldn’t”)
• Harry Lester: Cuts would damage Chesapeake Bay progress (“Harry Lester is chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.”)
• Can a State Senate Race Impact Climate Change? In Virginia’s 35th District, YES.
• Polls, Polls and More Polls: Who Do You Support in Virginia State Senate Democratic Primaries?
• Polls: Who Do You Support in Virginia House of Delegates Democratic Primaries?
• Virginia schools have seen the light, and it’s solar (Good, although of course the best thing to do is to first become as energy efficient as possible.)
• Melanie Rapp Beale Announces for HD-96
• Dr. Dorothy Height, ‘Godmother of the civil rights movement,’ honored in Richmond
• Editorial: Amazon may be catalyst to diversify economy
• Proposal to mothball Truman has many scratching their heads
• Desperate for jobs, one of Virginia’s most conservative cities turns to marijuana and casinos
• Editorial: Franklin County’s new demographics (“The latest population estimates recently released for every Virginia city and county contain a small bombshell: Franklin County is now losing population. This is a reversal of historic trends that is so dramatic it’s hard to overstate.”)
• UVA beats Oklahoma to get back to the Sweet 16
• SWEET 16: Defense carries Virginia Tech where it hasn’t been since 1967
• D.C.-area forecast: Some rain today and chilly on Tuesday, but nice springlike weather follows