.MaddowBlog: Stepping down, Robert Mueller delivers a message Pres. Trump didn’t want to hear.
Having completed his work as special counsel, Robert Mueller resigned from the Justice Department today and returned to private life. But before exiting the public stage, Mueller took several minutes to emphasize a handful of points he seemed eager for the public to know.
Mueller soon after addressed the investigation into obstruction of justice, highlighting the fact that he and his team did not exonerate the president. “We did not … make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. The introduction to volume two 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…. The 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.
If you’ve read the Mueller report, none of these individual assertions stood out as new – because they weren’t. On the contrary, they were familiar because we’ve read them in the redacted document. And in this case, what Mueller considers important is the fact that Russia attacked our elections; obstruction of justice is a serious crime; Trump hasn’t been cleared; and Trump wasn’t indicted because he can’t be indicted while in office.
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