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grumpyduck

(6,198 posts)
Wed May 29, 2019, 03:45 PM May 2019

"Charging the president with a crime was not an option we could consider"

IOW, if it had been an option, they could have done it. But the DoJ rules prohibited it.

So therefore (maybe) they had to ignore evidence that pointed directly to him committing a crime because it was irrelevant to the case about the campaign itself interfering. But apparently some of that evidence found its way into the report anyway.

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"Charging the president with a crime was not an option we could consider" (Original Post) grumpyduck May 2019 OP
Its time to establish that no President is above the law in unambiguous terms. marble falls May 2019 #1
FWIW, I think Mueller et al did a great job grumpyduck May 2019 #2
I disagree with his method, truth should be the imperative not just keeping politics out of it... uponit7771 May 2019 #3

grumpyduck

(6,198 posts)
2. FWIW, I think Mueller et al did a great job
Wed May 29, 2019, 04:08 PM
May 2019

of keeping politics out of it. It wasn't their job to politicize it, and it would have had a huge backlash anyway.

Unfortunately (and as expected), Giuliani et al are already politicizing it.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
3. I disagree with his method, truth should be the imperative not just keeping politics out of it...
Wed May 29, 2019, 04:10 PM
May 2019

... and Mueller is currently saying he's not going to speak to congress.

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