“The Trump Administration shouldn’t get to lock up Robert Mueller’s report and throw away the key,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., argued on Twitter, asking people to sign a petition and provide their names and emails. Such information is often used for future fundraising solicitations.
Within hours of Mueller’s completing his investigation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and the campaign arm of House Democrats were already placing ads on Facebook demanding the full report’s release, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee seeking 100,000 signatures for its online petition.
With no detailed information available about the report, Warren and Booker — as well as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — sought to focus attention and pressure on how quickly Attorney General William Barr would release the full report.
“Attorney General Barr — release the Mueller report to the American public. Now,” Warren wrote on Twitter.
Gillibrand made similar demands and also retweeted the news of the report along with three words: “See you Sunday.” That is when Gillibrand plans to formally kick off her 2020 campaign in front of Trump International Tower in New York.
Harris, in addition to calling for the report to be released “immediately,” called on Barr to “publicly testify under oath about the investigation and its findings.”
Harris, Warren and Gillibrand also joined Booker in asking supporters to sign their petitions calling for the report’s immediate release.
Six additional candidates — Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington; former Reps. Beto O’Rourke and John Delaney; and Julián Castro — also called for the release of the full report.
“As Donald Trump said, ‘Let it come out,'” Sanders wrote on Twitter. “I call on the Trump administration to make Special Counsel Mueller’s full report public as soon as possible. No one, including the president, is above the law.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.