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Read the redacted Mueller report

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Robert Mueller in a file photo from Aug. 1, 2013. (AP/Evan Vucci)
By PolitiFact Staff
April 18, 2019

Attorney General Bill Barr released a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report about Russian interference and the Trump campaign to Congress and the American people April 18, 2019. Read it below.   



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