Posted on 05/29/2019 12:57:50 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Special prosecutor Mueller’s statement upon the shuttering of his two-year investigation into the Trump campaign was weird even by the standards of the weirdness of the past couple of years. “Charging the president with a crime was not something we could consider,” he reported. Indeed, even pursuing that question, he added, would have been unconstitutional under long-standing Justice Department guidelines.
But then he said that if his office could have exonerated the president, it would have: “If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
Granted, he said pretty much the same thing in the report he produced: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.”
His statement was only 8 minutes long. The report is 400 pages long. It matters what he chose to repeat from it and what he did not. He wanted the American people to hear him speak those words. He wanted to emphasize this point.
The “I couldn’t exonerate him” point is discomfiting for another reason, which is: Since when do prosecutors exonerate people? That isn’t a prosecutor’s job. Maybe in the aftermath of a wrongful conviction, with irrefutable physical evidence, prosecutors will say something exculpatory. But even in most of these cases, they usually drop charges on grounds of insufficient evidence, not positive proof of innocence.
The obvious rejoinder here is that the president of the United States isn’t just any person and that it is bad for our government and our country for a dark cloud to hang over the president’s head. Therefore,dissipating that cloud would be a good thing (even if such a purpose was not in any way Mueller’s charge when he was hired in 2017).
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yes, they operate on the same modus
the Nazis politicized everything till there wasnt anything left but Hitler.
Tracing this entire debacle to its source, we have one person to blame: the feckless Jeff Sessions.
I give you a prosecutor who knows better, repeating “I could not exonerate him”
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He just needs to find an unreasonable prosecutor.
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute Hillary, despite mountains of evidence, but somehow the lack of evidence in Trump’s case is proof of guilt?
Was Sessions the insurance policy? Or just a rider?
Yep, never should have appointed Mueller, tragic.
This is an amazing statement form the guy who also wouldn’t couldn’t men charged and convicted of murder by the FBI.
No, just the incompetent that allowed this to happen.
Another FReeper neologism is born.
He's also a scumbag.
Graham should compel him to testify,
That won’t be happening. Graham was vouching for Mueller character today. Minutes after he smeared AG Barr as a liar. The whole affair is nauseating. Mueller continues to harm POTUS and the GOP is just fine with it.
I’m sure HE would prefer that this was his “final statement” and that the report could stand as “his testimony”, but that’s not the way it works.
If his report is “testimony”, then he is going to have to face cross-examination.
This could be series.
That he is.
Tracing this entire debacle to its source, we have one person to blame: the feckless Jeff Sessions.
Actually, the source is the Congressional GOP. Had they supported POTUS removing Rosenstein and Mueller for illegal conflicts the Mueller Coup never would have happened.
It's up to Lindsey Graham to compel him to testify, and Lindsey has a crush on him.
I know Lindsay graham said he was done with mueller if I were him I’d reconsider that and drag his sorry ass before the senate judiciary committee and grill the dog sh!t out of him.
Schiff says Mueller MUST testify, lol, i told ya to grab the popcorn, Mueller is his own worst nightmare, and Bob, its only just begun, enjoy the ride! Being dragged thru the mud on both sides for the next few years will be payback for 2 years on me anticipating litigation, and getting nothing, for my money.
I just knew John Podhoretz couldn't complete what was a good article on a good note. He is no better than Mueller, and his article is no better than Mueller's biased claptrap report.
Considering his Mueller mandate never included and underlying crime, youd figure the judiciary chairman would be interested in that, but hes not. Why is that? does the corruption extend to Lindsay Graham? Hold on to your hats! lol
Well, his buddy McCain was the one who promoted the fake dossier.
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