Former special counsel Robert Mueller made a statement this morning to the media. He took no questions. A fair summary of what he said was this:
1. The task assigned to the special counsel has been completed. Accordingly, he is resigning and going back to private life. The office of the special counsel is closing.
2. The report his office issued speaks to their conclusions. He has nothing to add. If he is called to testify, he will just repeat what is already set forth in the report.
3. There were Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election, but there is no evidence to support charges of conspiracy or collusion against anyone involved with the Trump campaign.
4. His office also investigated obstruction of justice. Under the law, he couldn't bring charges against the President since to do so would be unconstitutional. It also would not have been fair to bring such charges because there couldn't be a trial in court to determine the validity of such charges. Since there were no charges, he laid out in the report the evidence that pertained to possible obstruction. He neither cleared nor charged the President.
5. He has no problems with the way that Attorney General Barr made public his report, particularly since Barr had no obligation to make any of the report public and further since Barr made public more than the sections that Mueller had asked to be disclosed.
This statement basically can be described in two sentences.
A. It said nothing new other than that Mueller is resigning.
B. It is a bitter disappointment to Democrats and the media since it offered nothing that can be used against Trump and made clear that even if Mueller is called to testify, he won't be offering anything that can be used against Trump. The Mueller Report says all Mueller has to say.
That's all there is. There ain't no more.
1. The task assigned to the special counsel has been completed. Accordingly, he is resigning and going back to private life. The office of the special counsel is closing.
2. The report his office issued speaks to their conclusions. He has nothing to add. If he is called to testify, he will just repeat what is already set forth in the report.
3. There were Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election, but there is no evidence to support charges of conspiracy or collusion against anyone involved with the Trump campaign.
4. His office also investigated obstruction of justice. Under the law, he couldn't bring charges against the President since to do so would be unconstitutional. It also would not have been fair to bring such charges because there couldn't be a trial in court to determine the validity of such charges. Since there were no charges, he laid out in the report the evidence that pertained to possible obstruction. He neither cleared nor charged the President.
5. He has no problems with the way that Attorney General Barr made public his report, particularly since Barr had no obligation to make any of the report public and further since Barr made public more than the sections that Mueller had asked to be disclosed.
This statement basically can be described in two sentences.
A. It said nothing new other than that Mueller is resigning.
B. It is a bitter disappointment to Democrats and the media since it offered nothing that can be used against Trump and made clear that even if Mueller is called to testify, he won't be offering anything that can be used against Trump. The Mueller Report says all Mueller has to say.
That's all there is. There ain't no more.
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