Attorney General William Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee shows special counsel Robert Mueller's report stands and that there was no collusion from President Donald Trump and his campaign team, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a member of the committee, said Thursday.
"We also learned that the Democrats still can't accept Donald Trump won," the Tennessee Republican told Fox News "Fox and Friends." "He is serving well. He is executing on what the American people want to see done, but still, they can't get over the 2016 results."
Blackburn also said she thinks Barr was correct in his assessment of a letter from Mueller saying he had concerns about how his report had been portrayed.
"It was probably staff-driven," Blackburn said, echoing Barr's testimony. "Here is the thing, if Bob Mueller did not like the way the media and the public were responding to the report, Bill Barr can't do anything about that, nor can I, nor can anyone else."
Blackburn said her constituents are asking how FBI agents "think they can thwart a candidate, spy on a candidate."
She insisted there are many "great people" who work for the FBI and the Department of Justice, but there is still a "clique within that entity that feels they're superior in their knowledge and their ability and they can do whatever they want and be above the law. Tennesseans don't like that. The American people don't like that."
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