Trump Claims Democrats’ Rebuttal Memo Was a Set Up

President Trump “accused the Democrats of forcing his hand in blocking the release of a classified memo that rebuts Republican charges that law enforcement agencies abused their power in spying on a former Trump campaign aide,” the New York Times reports.

Trump tweeted that the memo was “very political and long” and would have to be heavily redacted to protect “sources and methods (and more).”

“He said that the Democrats knew that such a necessity would prompt him to block the memo and would open the White House to charges of a lack of transparency.”