Trump lawyers are scheming to attack report Trump says 'exonerates' him

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report drops (in redacted form) on Thursday morning, and Trump and his top aides are freaking out — a sign that the 400-page document isn’t the “total exoneration” Trump has declared it to be.

In anticipation of the report, Trump’s legal team is writing its own “counter report,” which the Wall Street Journal reported began as a 140-page screed that has been shaved down to 50 pages.

Of course, a “counter report” wouldn’t be necessary if Mueller’s findings were a “total exoneration” of Trump and his team. So the fact that Trump’s legal team is writing one is a sign they are worried about the report’s contents.

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor turned Trump lawyer, gave that away after Attorney General William Barr released a lame summary of the report, which it appears he did with an eye on trying to protect Trump at all costs.

“It’s better than I expected,” Giuliani told reporters after the summary of the report dropped — a typically stupid Giuliani quote that suggests Trump’s legal team thought Mueller would uncover criminal behavior from the Trump campaign.

Trump’s own behavior also suggests he’s terrified about Mueller’s findings, as he’s unleashed a series of unhinged, lie-ridden tweets trying to discredit Mueller’s investigators and somehow pin blame for his whole legal ordeal on Democrats.

Trump’s recent behavior is a far cry from Trump’s initial praise for Mueller, whom he said acted “honorably.”

Worse still for Trump is that the public simply doesn’t believe he was exonerated by Mueller’s report, and will read the document with a much more skeptical eye — despite the yelling and disinformation Trump and his team will spew in the aftermath of the report’s release.

A new Navigator Research poll out Wednesday found that only 30 percent of Americans think the report exonerates Trump. While a whopping 38 percent of Republicans don’t believe the report exonerates Trump.

Ultimately, hours before Mueller’s report drops on Thursday, White House aides are “dreading” the release and how Trump will react, CNN reported.

“He is going to go bonkers,” one unnamed Republican told CNN of Trump’s reaction to the report.

As if Trump’s behavior up until this point isn’t “bonkers” enough.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.