[mandaladon]

This fact is significant for two reasons: For starters, Rosenstein can “veto any Mueller action he deems inappropriate or unwarranted,” and bringing a prosecution would “in the judgement of DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, would violate the Constitution,” Columbus argues. Nor can Mueller make an impeachment referral to Congress, per law.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Interesting!

[LS]

Er, Special Counsels do not indict presidents. They do not have the authority.

[FirstFlaBn]

Of course he won’t indict Trump. Instead, he’ll indict one of the kids and leave dark hints about Trump’s involvement.

The Mueller probe has always been about the 2018 elections - both to influence and to provide grist for the impeachment mill.

The plan was to conclude it in late summer to allow a crescendo to build by election day and to discourage cowardly Pubbies from supporting Trump.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"at the conclusion of his investigation"

Sometime around 2024.

[Texas Fossil]

BUT? Will Trump have Mueller charged?

[tennmountainman]

Of course not.
Mulehead is doing oppo research.

[norwaypinesavage]

This isn’t exactly news. It’s been pretty much common knowledge that Mueller wouldn’t (couldn’t?) indict the president. Mueller is after information that leads to impeachment. Impeachment is a POLITICAL process, not a criminal action. All Mueller needs is sufficient accusations, along with a compliant press to allow democRats to initiate impeachment votes.

[Enchante]

" former senior counsel to the deputy attorney general under Obama"

In other words, pure swamp creature. But even he recognizes reality, sometimes.

[Republican Wildcat]

This entire “investigation” was designed to create process crimes. There apparently is no underlying crime, so the goal was to literally create crimes over the course of the investigation - a criminal investigation designed to not find crimes, but to create them.

You don’t put together the team that Mueller did if the objective is to “get to the truth.” They aren’t just Democrats - they are blatant partisans with conflicts of interest. There are numerous qualified attorneys to have been assembled who don’t have those kinds of biases - but Mueller didn’t choose an objective legal team - obviously by design.

[mojito]

My only reason for thinking that Mueller will blink and not make a “finding” that Trump obstructed justice will be because at that point any and all evidence that may have influenced the president's actions MUST be made public, including all “classified” evidence. You can't allege a president committed a crime and then claim that ANY of the evidence is classified. And Trump would, of course, mount a vigorous defense of his actions. And there would of course be congressional hearings, all in public. This would rip the heart out of the deep state, and ultimately, it would implicate 0bama in a bevy of criminal acts.

Knowing what we know now, I suspect Mueller's pals in the deep state are pleading with him not to make any allegations against Trump, and to let the matter go. If he presses forward they know they will all be exposed.

[gaijin]

[ViLaLuz]

Because Trump isn’t guilty of anything.