Special prosecutor Robert Mueller's statement upon the shuttering of his two-year investigation into the Trump campaign was weird even by the standards of the weirdness of the past couple of years.
"Charging the president with a crime was not something we could consider," he reported.
Then he said that if his office could have exonerated the president, it would have: "If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."
Granted, he said pretty much the same thing in the report he produced: "If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state."
The obvious rejoinder here is that the president of the United States isn't just any person and that it is bad for our government and our country for a dark cloud to hang over the president's head. Therefore, in theory, dissipating that cloud would be a good thing.
He cited the Justice Department opinion that forbade him from considering a criminal indictment of the president and noted: "The opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing."
Mueller just made sure all the oxygen in Washington will be sucked into talking about the president's post-election conduct and not Russia's 2016 conduct.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/muellers-final-statement-was-a-disgraceful-mess/
"Charging the president with a crime was not something we could consider," he reported.
Then he said that if his office could have exonerated the president, it would have: "If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."
Granted, he said pretty much the same thing in the report he produced: "If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state."
The obvious rejoinder here is that the president of the United States isn't just any person and that it is bad for our government and our country for a dark cloud to hang over the president's head. Therefore, in theory, dissipating that cloud would be a good thing.
He cited the Justice Department opinion that forbade him from considering a criminal indictment of the president and noted: "The opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing."
Mueller just made sure all the oxygen in Washington will be sucked into talking about the president's post-election conduct and not Russia's 2016 conduct.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/muellers-final-statement-was-a-disgraceful-mess/
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