that we would rather not know. Given trump's moral compass.

They'll be redacting to protect themselves from an angry public that now knows how they've been deceived, and who will also know to what extent Trumpy is a Russian agent. THAT'S the big worry. From that perspective, I want to know everything.

Another day, another cloud of nothing. But then, Rudy doesn't have anything of substance to contribute, anyway.

and the Trump campaign and likely, the transition period, it's hard to see executive privilege applying since Donny Dollhands was not president yet.

he was not president when he was committing those crimes

Some of the obstruction stuff might have been but Trump and Rudy opened their mouths so ...

Once Trumpy and Rudy started talking about matters that otherwise MIGHT be considered as privileged, it can no longer be so and doesn't even qualify for an argument.

through things like firing Comey, picking an acting AG based on opinion of whether the Mueller investigation should procede, or the message Trump helped craft on the Trump tower meetingfor Don Jr that was not honest ....

Those happened while he was President. (Consider that Nixon may not have known about the burglers before they went to the DNC. The articles of impeachment dealt with the coverup. There was also all the other tirty tricks, the slush fund for them etc, but there was never "proof" that Nixon knew of specific things done. It was known that he had an enemies list and that he used the government to harrass people on the list. It is possible that had he not been pardoned, we might have had learned more about any personal involvement.)

obstruction started right after the election, I believe.

Caveat - I am repeating others and am not a lawyer.

Given that he tweets on almost everything, he might not have a whole lot of priviledge on these issues.

No need to block it if it doesn't show you're guilty, right?

between releasing it himself or have it come up in the impeachment hearings

Why try to block evidence, if you have (as he claims) done nothing wrong??? Who would be surprised at ANYTHING in the report? tRump is a low life thug.

Even if they do not succeed in their attempt, they could tie it up in the courts?

I can't wait for everything to unfold, but in the meantime I keep having to pop more popcorn to read the headlines daily and hear what comes out of the orange shitgibbon's mouth.

made it impossible to suppress those findings, because only a court can do that - not the Justice Dept.

Its not up to him. Of course he's going to claim it. I believe the Dems are not going to buy it.

would stop reporting on what Trump says he MIGHT do. It's an old trick of his and his father's to try to affect outcomes by saying things that they may possibly do. (see, NYT report on Trumpian finances). Let's not play their game.

and guil might follow up.

dRump. Pretends dRump did things as a citizen, which the president can't be held accountable for. Pretends that all sketchy activities by the candidate stopped the second he became president.

who's guilty for sure. They just confirmed it big time. Being that this occurred in court, what right do they have to suppress court proceedings from the public?

And like many others have said in this ongoing post(s), wasn't president then, and isn't able to claim exec. privilege.

Morons.

but even if SCOTUS allows it, there is no chance whatsoever that every word will get leaked. There must be more than a few at Justice that would gleefully mail a big fat manilla envelope to the NYTimes and to WAPO and the ChicagoTrib, and the LATimes, and the
DallasMornNews, the AP, CNN, NBC and CBS.

The truth will out.

mix it all together in the Faux News cauldron, and bam! instant MAGAt goodness with a generous sprinkling of redactions.

But in the end, he's dead meat. He'll be caged like a dog.