Strangelove wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:07 pm
Those ARE (?!?!?) Mueller's words and there ARE plenty of "links and sources"...
Oh there are plenty of similar links to the
FOX Trump News article, lets have a closer look shall we?
"In his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Lieu asked him, “I’d like to ask you the reason, again, you did not indict Donald Trump is because of OLC opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?”
“That is correct,” Mueller said in reply saying that he would have charged Trump with a crime if not for the Office of Legal Counsel opinion.
Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko of Arizona pressed him on this after his comments to Lieu, saying “that is not what you said in the report and that is not what you told Attorney General Barr.” Lesko also pointed to the joint statement he put out earlier this year, saying there was no daylight between himself and Barr on that issue. She quoted from that statement, reading, “The attorney general has previously stated that the special counsel repeatedly affirmed that he was not saying that, but for the OLC opinion, he would have found the president obstructed justice.”
“So, Mr. Mueller, do you stand by your joint statement that you issued on May 29th as you sit here today?” Lesko asked. Mueller declined to stand by the official statement from his own office from less than two months ago.
“I would have to look at it more closely before I said I agree with it,” Mueller said.
"In dramatic testimony, Robert Mueller says he did not exonerate Trump: 'It is not a witch hunt' https://nationalpost.com/news/world/dra ... -democrats
The White House painted Mueller’s testimony.
"But hours later at the outset of the second hearing, Mueller corrected himself.
“As we say in the report and as I said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime,” Mueller said."
Additionally, Trump has said the Mueller inquiry resulted in the president’s “complete and total exoneration. But Meuller testified:
“Did you actually totally exonerate the president?” Nadler asked Mueller during the first hearing.
“No,” Mueller replied.
Seems pretty clear, Mueller wanted to clarify that although he could not exonerate the cunt he couldn't indict the cunt anyway because that was not in the scope of his mission
Trump (
foxtrump news and Doc) claim Mueller corrected his statement on whether he could face charges after he has left office
But when he was asked by CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid about Mueller's testimony that the president could face charges once he leaves office, the president denied Mueller had said this. After Reid pointed out that "yes, he did,..." She pointed out that Mueller had in fact corrected his answer on clearing Mr. Trump, which the president answered with more insults.
"Reid:
That was not his correction. His correction was about exonerating you.
THE PRESIDENT: Read his correction.
Reid: It was about exonerating you (the cunt). That was not about if you(the cunt) could be charged after you leave office.
"I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Lieu who said, and I quote, you didn't charge the President because of the OLC opinion. "As we say in the report, and as I said at the opening, we
did not reach a determination as to whether the President committed a crime. With that, Mr. Chairman, I'm ready to answer questions."
What you need to know about the OLC opinion: Internal Justice Department policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the OLC — the Office of Legal Counsel — and it dates back to the Nixon administration. It is binding on all Justice Department employees, including Mueller and his team of prosecutors.
In his report, Mueller directly explained how this had a major impact on his internal deliberations. Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he
couldn't bring any charges against Trump, even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion.
CLEARLY, TRUMP
FOX TRUMP NEWS, and any other right wing bullshit rag and you Doc are trying to twist the narrative to suit your political ends. Not unlike trying to characterize any criticism of a right wing Israeli government's persecution of Palestinian women and children as somehow antisemitic.