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Originally Posted by direwolf
Mueller can't indict a sitting president. He gave Congress all the ammo they needed to remove the dips**t from office, and the GOP-controlled Senate failed to do so. End of story. Mueller's final report was indeed quite damning, and Barr essentially ignored all the juicy bits when he put out that ridiculous "nothing to see here" statement afterwards.
https://www.businessinsider.com/muel...t-crime-2019-5 |
I actually think all of the precedent is clear that he could have indicted a sitting president. What was lacking was an istitution with the polictial legitamacy to carry out that action.
The FBI fears that ever taking action against a rebuplican will lead to the tpye of paritzan rah rah team hackery that will destroy them as an institution forever, and frankly they are right, so they can't do anything.
There is also the problem that Barr would have fired him for indicting, which would have caused the impeachment of Barr in the normal world, but thats not the timelive we live on.