Mueller in his haughtiness didn’t even say that.
I still hear people say "Oh, he served in the military so he deserves our respect" but a stinking scumbag coward like him should be shunned by all Marines.
What he did today was a travesty. Either Barr or Mueller was lying. There is no way around that, zero. One of the two is LYING.
Barr says that he specifically asked Mueller if the fact that a sitting president cannot be indicted impacted his decision not to indicate charges should be levied against Trump, and Mueller said no, it did not. When asked about his disagreements with Mueller, Barr has made a point of emphasizing that when the two men met privately on March 5 to discuss the findings, Mueller said he would not claim the president would have been charged with a crime if he weren’t the president.
BARR: “We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking a position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion. And he made very clear several times that that was not his position...”
Today, Mueller said:
MUELLER: "..And as set forth in the report, after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.
The introduction to the Volume 2 of our report explains that decision. It explains that under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That is unconstitutional. Even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited.
A special counsel's office is part of the Department of Justice, and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider. The department's written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. Those points are summarized in our report and I will describe two of them for you..."
And there you have it. It is clear that ONE of the two men is LYING about their March 5th discussion about the report.
Mueller is lying. He is lying to throw this into the hands of the the Leftists in government who are howling for impeachment. His cowardly, weaselly, underhanded, scurrilous parsing of these words to create this dynamic says volumes about him.
He has known from the day he accepted the role of Special Prosecutor that the entire thing was a sham, because his number one man, his right hand man, Andrew Weissman, was told in August 2016 in a briefing by Bruce Our (in his statement under oath in front of a committee) that the Steele Dossier was a suspect politically motivated document.
If people were to hang for this, that scumbag Mueller would hang with the rest of the treasonous cabal if things were just.