Maybe You Can’t Get a Comment from Peter Carr, But I Can

Who says Peter Carr, spokesman for the Mueller investigation, always gives “no comment”? This morning, Benjamin Wittes and I were writing a piece for The Atlantic, which included a line about the staffing of the special counsel’s office. President Trump often calls the office a “Gang of Angry Democrats.” In the president’s tweets, sometimes the gang has 17 members and sometimes it has 13. The New York Times more recently reported that there were 14 lawyers—although we deduced from other reporting the the number is now more likely to be 12. We decided it would be prudent to write to the special counsel’s office to verify the number of “angry Democrats” on the Mueller team. So I did: Hello Mr. Carr, I and my colleague Benjamin Wittes are writing a piece for the Atlantic about reports that the special counsel’s investigation is “wrapping up.” The President has said that there are “17 Angry…

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