After two years of silence Mueller finally speaks

Answered. Do try to pay attention.

"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," Barr told CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford."

"Could've?" Mueller "could" have, but he would not. This is what Mueller said. "So that was Justice Department policy. Those were the principles under which we operated. And from them, we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime."

Mueller also said, "The opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing."

Put another way, Mueller had provided over 400 pages of evidence. He felt it would be highly presumptuous of him to make a decision for Congress.

"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," Barr said. Mueller was quite clear with his meaning yesterday. Would Trump's lawyer, er, attorney general, be happier if Mueller had forcefully said Trump should be impeached? Does Barr really understand what he said?

"The opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office, but he could've reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity," Barr added. So, again, Barr would have been happy if Mueller had charged Trump with a crime. Is that what Barr is saying?

"But he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained and I am not going to, you know, argue about those reasons," Barr said.

Then why raise the issue at all? Barr is a lawyer. He could have given some B.S. to the question. It is what lawyers do. Answer: He wanted to discredit Mueller, thereby helping Trump.

It just didn't come out right.

"When he became aware that Mueller would not make a determination in his obstruction of justice probe — which investigated 11 instances in which Mr. Trump tried to derail the Russia investigation — Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "felt it was necessary" for them to make decision on the issue.

"In a letter to Congress after Mueller submitted his report, Barr said he and Rosenstein concluded that the nearly two-year investigation did not contain sufficient evidence to establish Mr. Trump obstructed justice.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/willia...d-whether-trump-obstructed-justice-exclusive/

At the conclusion of Volume Two (obstruction of justice) Mueller concluded, If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.

 

The dumb people do not recognize he did exactly what he said he couldn’t do on conspiracy.