03-25-2019, 08:59 AM
Attorney General's Summary of Mueller Report
Yesterday was definitely a good day for Trump and company, and the Republican party.
According to AG Barr's 4-page summary, the independent investigation did not establish that Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election was carried out with intentional coordination/cooperation/conspiring by then-candidate Trump or members of the Trump campaign.
Mueller's report has not been released to the public, but Barr's summary indicates that while no conspiracy crimes were charged, the investigation did not exonerate President Trump and Mueller's team chose not to draw a prosecutorial conclusion regarding 'obstruction of justice'.
Barr's summary of Mueller's report states that he and Deputy AG Rosenstein have decided that there is no chargeable obstruction. I think there will be a lot of Congresspersons (especially Democratic Reps) who will consider Barr's attempt to make that call an infringement of their oversight responsibilities and may want to pursue hearings on the matter. Obstruction does not require evidence of an underlying crime, as demonstrated in the Nixon, Clinton, and a slew of other obstruction cases.
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Yesterday was definitely a good day for Trump and company, and the Republican party.
According to AG Barr's 4-page summary, the independent investigation did not establish that Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election was carried out with intentional coordination/cooperation/conspiring by then-candidate Trump or members of the Trump campaign.
Mueller's report has not been released to the public, but Barr's summary indicates that while no conspiracy crimes were charged, the investigation did not exonerate President Trump and Mueller's team chose not to draw a prosecutorial conclusion regarding 'obstruction of justice'.
Barr's summary of Mueller's report states that he and Deputy AG Rosenstein have decided that there is no chargeable obstruction. I think there will be a lot of Congresspersons (especially Democratic Reps) who will consider Barr's attempt to make that call an infringement of their oversight responsibilities and may want to pursue hearings on the matter. Obstruction does not require evidence of an underlying crime, as demonstrated in the Nixon, Clinton, and a slew of other obstruction cases.
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