Attorney General Bill Barr was urged to resign prior to impeachment proceedings following the bombshell report on how he betrayed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote in a letter to Barr. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”

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Top legal analysts were shocked by the revelations.

Here is some of their analysis:

wow. wo-ooooooow. wow. "Mueller wrote a letter in late March complaining to Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s work." wow. — Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 30, 2019

How could Barr have testified that he had no idea what Mueller's reaction to Barr's conclusion was??? — Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 30, 2019

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Of course. Because what Barr did is indefensible—from his summary “nonsummary” to his absurd conclusion of the obstruction investigation. https://t.co/vUcJ2f43pv — Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) April 30, 2019

It was impossible to believe #Mueller was ok with #Barr misrepresentation: “Mueller told the attorney general that the depiction of his findings failed to capture ‘context, nature…” https://t.co/pGBbvpsTzZ — Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) April 30, 2019

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This looks just completely terrible for Barr, who effectively lied to the public and to Congress. In a normal administration we'd be talking about whether the AG would be forced to step down. In this one, who knows? https://t.co/ZlOwO0FrCh — Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) April 30, 2019

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Not a surprise. Once the report was issued, Barr's account was exposed as patently absurd.https://t.co/YSngAyvonS — Marty Lederman (@marty_lederman) April 30, 2019

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All of a sudden I'm having doubts about the fairness of AG Barr. — Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) April 30, 2019

Barr should step down. His credibility is nil and DOJ is diminished and under a cloud so long as he stays. https://t.co/ha7HIKyX13 — Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 30, 2019

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Now we know why Mueller wasn’t on stage with Barr at the press conference. https://t.co/NPsfPLGdxx — Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 30, 2019

EXPLOSIVE NEWS: Mueller says AG Barr misrepresented the “context, nature & substance” of his probe. What else is there? Barr is a total disgrace and a phony. He must now testify under @RepJerryNadler’s rules, then resign. Mueller must now testify as well. This is a new ballgame. — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 30, 2019

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AG Barr flat-out LIED to the American people about the Mueller report’s incrimination of President Trump. He’s been outed as a total fraud. We can’t let Barr — or Trump — get away with such gross abuse of power. Barr must be impeached if he doesn’t resign first. — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 30, 2019

https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1123370475013529601

It was apparent to anyone who read the Mueller report that Attorney General Barr's spin on it was misleading and inaccurate. Apparently Special Counsel Mueller had the same reaction. https://t.co/Y9V8c3fu8E — Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) April 30, 2019