Mueller: If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so
just happened a little bit ago.
tulc(just thought people would be interested)
just happened a little bit ago.
tulc(just thought people would be interested)
...is it news?This was and is being covered by every news organization on earth. No one had to come here to find out about it.
Or there is.But the pack of Democrat lawyers doing the investigating did not have that confidence at the start, either, so it is safe to say that what Mueller is explaining now amounts to exactly what the President has said about it--there is no there there. Nothing.
Mueller: If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so
just happened a little bit ago.
tulc(just thought people would be interested)
That's not at all what was said.But the pack of Democrat lawyers doing the investigating did not have that confidence at the start, either, so it is safe to say that what Mueller is explaining now amounts to exactly what the President has said about it--there is no there there. Nothing.
Mueller said that if Trump wasn't guilty he would have said so. He didn't say so.
Here is a little more context to add to that sentence.But Mueller did say:
“We concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime.....That is the office’s final position.”
What Mueller did today was what any good American should do. Tell the truth.I watched.
I had my questions about Mueller's motives once he assembled the team that he did, and he convinced me today that he is a totally unethical and unprincipled person.
Lawrence Walsh, special counsel in the Iran/Contra investigation, concluded that both President Reagan and Vice President Bush had violated rules/broken the law, but they were crimes for which there were no penalties. In other words, there was no point in prosecuting them. I don't even remember what those infractions were and don't care enough to look it up.
Ken Starr did not indict or suggest President Clinton should be indicted. But in his report he clearly indicated 13 specific crimes committed by President Clinton along with his evidence for that. It was then left up to Congress what to do with it.
Mueller had two years and millions of dollars to use to investigate. The White House provided him 1.4 million documents and refused him none. No executive privilege was evoked to prevent him from interviewing people or otherwise seeking evidence. He interviewed 500 people and indicted several--none for crimes that had anything to do with President Trump--dragged their names through the mud, broke them financially, ruined them professionally, and put unconscionable stress on their families trying to get some dirt on the President. And he had the most maliciously partisan team hostile to President Trump and pro Hillary that he could have assembled.
And with all that, he could not point to any specific crime that President Trump had committed? He didn't have to indict. All he had to say is that he concluded that President Trump and/or members of his campaign colluded with Russians here and here and here. President Trump obstructed justice here and here and here. Mueller didn't do that.
But what he did do this morning was pour gasoline on the fire practically insisting that the Democrats keep up their witch hunt and go after the President.
That was dirty, slimy, unethical, and evil. Whatever respect I had for the man based on others' opinion of him is completely gone now.
What Mueller did today was what any good American should do. Tell the truth.
The distortion has been painted by the Trump team as they twist and rewrite their narrative of what the investigation found. Trump has gone from praise to condemnation of the report and back again, on a weekly basis.I would bet a pretty good steak dinner is that he did not tell the truth today, or at least he buried it under so much obfusication and distortion that nobody would be able to discern the truth from it.
But the pack of Democrat lawyers doing the investigating did not have that confidence at the start, either, so it is safe to say that what Mueller is explaining now amounts to exactly what the President has said about it--there is no there there. Nothing.