Sununu on Nadler, Pelosi: "It should be really stupid" to think that a court will force Barr to break the law

The former New Hampshire governor, John Sununu, said Monday about "America's Newsroom" that House Democratic leaders should be "stupid" to believe that a federal court would force the Attorney General, William Barr, to break the law.

Sununu said that if the charge for contempt of Barr – for his refusal to hand over the full and unedited Mueller report – reaches a federal court, the judge would rally against the Democratic party.

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Sununu, a former chief of staff of President George W. Bush at the White House, said that what the representative Jerry Nadler, DN.Y. and other democrats wanted to do, was "breaking the law and sending them excerpts from the expurgated statement Mueller". report who are against the law for Barr send them. "

"They use the threat of contempt to try to blackmail them to send something that breaks the law," he said. "Nadler and Pelosi must be really stupid if they think that any serious federal court would support an outrage to the Attorney General to charge the Attorney General, inviting him to break the law."

Sununu said the Republicans were approaching the situation with bad tact.

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Instead of trying to focus on the booming economy, President Trump and his party should strive to make public the fact that some Democrats are trying to force Mr. Barr to violate the law. Federal.

Sununu added that he thought the Democrats could try to "undermine" Mr. Barr before pursuing actions that could be detrimental to the personalities of their party.

Trump published a tweet Monday morning on the subject, explaining that Democrats were circulating a "pathetically false speech" on a "constitutional crisis".