Mueller’s report was underplayed, some on his team say

Some of the special counsel’s investigators told associates that the attorney general had failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry, and that they were more troubling for President Trump than he indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with the matter.

The investigators had already written multiple summaries of the nearly 400-page report, and some team members believe that the attorney general, William Barr, should have included more of their material in the four-page letter he wrote on March 24 laying out their main conclusions. Mr. Barr only briefly cited the special counsel’s work in his letter.

The officials declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel’s investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained.