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Originally Posted by wwkayaker
Yesterday, motivated by some comments I read on Twitter, I ended up reading about some of Mueller’s decisions around the impeachment investigation and subsequent report. From what I understand, Mueller could have done much more to ensure that Trump and his cronies would have faced punishments. Aside from trying to save face after being outplayed with the impeachment investigation, what is the point of Mueller writing an op-ed? Christ, he had his chance and didn’t take advantage of it.
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I’ll have to disagree...from memory. In the end, Mueller laid out that the president likely broke the law (and in a few instances definitely did with obstruction). What Mueller didn’t know is if he (or anyone) had the authority to charge the president with a crime in the first place and they didn’t think they had the evidence for a Strong criminal case against the Trump campaign When it came to Russian influence.
There was no exoneration of Trump or anyone else...it was there is a hell of a lot of smoke. We couldn’t find the fire to support criminal charges on Russia but we think the fire is there type of thing. The opinion at the time was the sitting president couldn’t be charged with a crime. He did the only thing he thought he could do...leave it in the hands of those that can make the president accountable. The senate failed in that job not Mueller. He led congress to impeachment without being able to say its name outright.
I wonder with the recent Supreme Court ruling where the justices were very forthright in saying the president is not above the law would have changed the decisions made on the presidents potential criminality.