Special counsel Robert Mueller: ‘If we had had confidence that’ President Trump ‘clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so’

Special counsel Robert Mueller: ‘If we had had confidence that’ President Trump ‘clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so’
Published Wed, May 29 2019  11:00 AM EDT Updated Wed, May 29 2019  2:21 PM EDT
Dan Mangan
@_DanMangan
Key Points
“If we had had confidence that” President Donald Trump “clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Robert Mueller says in breaking his silence about his 22-month probe of the 2016 election.
Mueller says that if he testified before Congress, as Democrats want, he won’t elaborate beyond his final report.
Mueller also says Russia “launched a concerted attack on our political system.”
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Several Quoted Excerpts:
Special counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence Wednesday on his nearly two-year investigation, saying that “if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
Mueller’s statement to reporters at the Justice Department — his first ever in public since being appointed special counsel in 2017 — primarily restated the main findings of his investigation, which concluded three months ago after he submitted a 448-page report to Attorney General William Barr.
But Mueller pointedly talked about the lingering question of why his report did not recommend, one way or the other, that President Donald Trump should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice for allegedly interfering with his inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible coordination with Russians by members of the Trump campaign.
“We did not make a determination as to whether” Trump “did commit a crime,” said Mueller, who did not take any questions from journalists.
However, in his report to Barr, Mueller wrote that his probe did find “multiple acts by the President that were capable of exerting undue influence over law enforcement investigations.”
In remarks lasting about nine minutes Wednesday, the special counsel cited a long-standing Justice Department policy barring the prosecution of a sitting president for a federal crime.
“That is unconstitutional,” Mueller said. “Charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider.”
However, Mueller noted that there was another avenue for dealing with a sitting president who broke the law. He said that the internal Justice Department opinion barring the prosecution of a president also “says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.”
That “process,” which Mueller did not name, is impeachment.
His findings included his determination that there was a sustained, aggressive effort by Russian agents to use social media and computer hacking to help sway voters to Trump over Democratic contender Hillary Clinton.
“Russian intelligence officers who are part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system,” Mueller said.
But he noted that he also had found that there was not sufficient evidence to charge people affiliated with the Trump campaign with conspiring with Russian agents to affect the election.
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