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Mueller speaks
Robert Mueller is going to speak this morning at 11:00. He will answer no questions. He is of course speaking on the Russia probe. I am praying he helps this country see what trump has been up to. There was a trump supporter on the news this morning who had her eyes opened for the first time, she listens to just conservative news, she didn't know there was anything incriminating in the Mueller report regarding trump, she thought he had been vindicated, WRONG! Don't know if it will do any good, she'll probably still support him and the news she hasn't been getting.
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Re: Mueller speaks
Here are 2 of Mueller's statements when he spoke this morning:
1. "If we had had confidence that the President had clearly not committed a crime, we would have said so."
2) "Charging the President with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider."
The first is an echo of a key line in the Mueller report -- and one that Attorney General William Barr included in his four-page summary letter sent to Congress in the immediate aftermath of the Justice Department receiving the report -- that said this: "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Attorney GeneralWilliam Barr told a Senate committee earlier this month that Mueller "stated three times to us in that meeting, in response to our questioning, that he emphatically was not saying, but-for the [Office of Legal Counsel] opinion, he would've found obstruction."
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Re: Mueller speaks
Mueller didn't say there was no obstruction by the President. Mueller didn't say he wouldn't have charged Trump even without the guiding OLC ruling. And in so doing, he said a whole hell of a lot.
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Re: Mueller speaks
Per the NYT:
Mueller was careful to emphasize that if his office “had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
”Translation? There’s a decent chance the president committed a crime.
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Re: Mueller speaks
It is so funny to watch Trump freak out over this. Saw him speak this morning and he is really scared that he will get impeached. His supporters are freaking out too. Some I speak to are saying that Mueller was biased to the left.
No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you think you are, how you treat people tells us all. Integrity is everything.
