If the president’s decision to withhold the audio of his two-day interview with Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur by invoking executive privilege was designed to limit the potential for scandal, it’s likely to have the opposite effect.
On Thursday, the administration asserted executive authority to, as the New York Times put it, “deny House Republicans access” to recordings of his deposition in which the president conducted himself in a manner Hur charitably described as the conduct of a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
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