Yes or no on Mueller report criminal charges? Don't let Trump just run out the clock

[Nevilledog]

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Laurence Tribe
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The 5-year statute of limitations on Trump’s request to then-FBI Director James Comey to drop the criminal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn expires in 6 days. Other acts of obstruction will soon be similarly time-barred.

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Opinion | Yes or no on Mueller report criminal charges? Don’t let Trump just run out the clock.
There is a tremendous public interest in knowing the resolution of any case involving a former — and possibly future — president.
11:05 AM · Feb 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/07/trump-garland-and-the-mueller-report/

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It's time for the Biden Justice Department to issue a report on the Mueller report.
There are multiple criminal investigations currently swirling around former president Donald Trump. The Justice Department is investigating the Jan. 6 riot in Washington and attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, with Attorney General Merrick Garland vowing to pursue those criminally responsible “at any level.” Prosecutors in Georgia are investigating Trump’s alleged efforts to interfere with the election results in that state. New York prosecutors are investigating Trump and his businesses for potential fraud.

But nearly three years ago, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III presented an exhaustive report detailing almost a dozen instances of possible obstruction of justice by Trump in connection with the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The five-year statute of limitations on the first such instance — Trump’s alleged request to then-FBI Director James B. Comey to drop the criminal investigation of disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn — expires on Feb. 14. Other acts of possible obstruction soon will be similarly time-barred.

The fate of Mueller’s report when it was released is by now a familiar story. The special counsel outlined damning evidence of Trump’s possible criminal acts. But he decided that in light of the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president, he would not make a “traditional prosecutorial judgment” about whether charges were justified. The report therefore did not accuse Trump of a crime, but pointedly noted that it also did not exonerate him.

William P. Barr, attorney general at the time, infamously spun Mueller’s findings before the report’s public release, announcing that his own review had concluded there was no obstruction. Once the full, redacted report was released, it became clear how misleading Barr’s summary had been. More than a thousand former federal prosecutors signed a letter saying the evidence would justify an indictment. Trump, on the other hand, maintained that the report was a “complete and total exoneration.”

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[Grasswire2]

1. How about an UN-redacted report release?

That could happen tomorrow, if TPTB let it.

Why not? Why keep secrets?

Soooooooooooooooooo frustrating.

[MANative]

2. It would amuse me to no end if they held charges until the day before...

the statute of limitations runs out. Lull the orange menace into thinking he was in the clear, then slap him with everything he deserves. Not likely, but a gal can hope, right?

[Quemado]

3. This is only the surface of the real problem. Why isn't the DOJ prosecuting Trump?

On anything?

Mueller report
The Ukraine
Inciting Jan. 6

The list goes on.

Where in the world is Merrick Garland?

[hamsterjill]

5. My questions as well.

I’d like an answer. Something tells me that answer will be a long time coming. Garland has had plenty of time to mount a case. The acts by Trump are obvious and documented. Either Garland is a coward or he’s not competent to hold the office he now occupies.

Something needs to happen.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Only 4 out of 14 potential obstruction charges *might* meet all criteria for conviction

https://www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map

That could be why DOJ isn’t indicting- they don’t like to indict cases they aren’t sure of winning.

[kacekwl]

6. Mueller was just a dog & pony show to

give false hope to us rubes out here who finally thought something, anything would remove the boil we had for president. I fell for it hook line and sinker. Not this time, until real charges are filed real high level criminals are on trial and or in jail I hold absolutely no hope for justice unless I forget to renew my car registration and miss my court date. Then look out.

[msfiddlestix]

7. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t

obviously I see it the same way. I do wish we were wrong, but if wishes were fishes and all that...

Just the same, I do check here at least two or three times a day, and scour through the headlines, hoping to see the headlines we want to see.

I keep asking myself why torture myself when I know I'm not going to stumble on a post showing him and his cronies facing justice.

It's that slightest thread of hope still teasing me.

If it does happen, the likely scenario is that I'll hear from my neighbors first I think, by word of mouth most likely.

[kacekwl]

8. It is torture but like you I keep

checking in. You're right about your neighbors telling you surely before main stream media.