My favorite part of yesterday:
…nowhere does it say that you were to conclusively determine Donald Trump’s innocence or that the special counsel report should determine whether or not to exonerate him. It’s not in any of the documents. It’s not in your appointment order. It’s not in the special counsel regulations. It’s not in the OLC opinions. It’s not in the justice manual, and it’s not in the Principles of Federal Prosecution.
Nowhere do those words appear together because respectfully, respectfully, director, it was not the special counsel’s job to conclusively Donald Trump’s innocence or to exonerate him because the bedrock principle of our justice system is a presumption of innocence. It exists for everyone. Everyone is entitled to it, including sitting presidents. And because there is a presumption of innocence, prosecutors never, ever need to conclusively determine it.
Our schools have spent decades convincing people that they are allowed “their own truth”.
And now, concepts like “presumption of innocence” can be dismissed by many people as, “Well, like, that’s your opinion, man.”
Yes, I would agree.
They put together this SC. They appointed a man who, was known among some people to have early dementia, whereby he would not have a direct over sight to the formation of the team of prosecutors or to their methods.
Painfully yesterday we saw proof of this. Mueller new nothing of the bias in the appointed lawyers.
He knew very little of the document itself.
It was clear that he was not in charge, others were, probably this guy Weissman.
Mueller was appointed simply because of his passivity.
and in the end, the guy is oblivious to the simple fact that YOU list here in your post, ie that we are all presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Mueller has become the Don Quixote of our times.
Ratcliffe was great yesterday. But where the heck has he been the past 2 1/2 years? We need all hands on deck and it seems the GOP isn’t interested in doing that.