Report: Barr likely pushed back against story that Mueller report was coming soon.
The false alarm was just the latest in a line of imprecise and inaccurate estimates about when Muellers team plans to submit its report to the attorney general, and when a version of that report could be made public, a report from The Daily Beast said.
The Beast goes on to explain that even though Mueller has been tight-lipped about the report, that several of Trump allies and aides have shared information with the press about when they think it is being released.
A blog for the Palmer Report echos the same sentiments that the release of the Mueller report is being taken advantage of to fuel President Donald Trumps agenda to control the media narrative.
This smells just like the pattern used in the past by Donald Trump of painting a narrative he wants to be true, as a way to pressure people to support his story, the post said. By allowing a DOJ official to tell a reporter that the report would not be submitted next week, Barr just followed in the footsteps of Andrew McCabe, before him, and Jim Comey before them. These Justice officials cant be pushed around, and today we have some hope that William Barr is one of them.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trumps-wishful-thinking-on-mueller-slammed-as-painting-a-narrative-that-he-wanted-to-be-true/