Q: A Witch Hunt or not a Witch Hunt?
"Let me begin where the appointment order begins, and that is
interference in the 2016 presidential election.
As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence
officers who are part of the Russian military, launched a concerted
attack on our political system. They stole private information and then
released that information through fake online identities and through the
organization WikiLeaks.
The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and
to damage a presidential candidate.
The indictments allege, and the other activities in our report describe,
efforts to interfere in our political system. They needed to be
investigated and understood. And that is among the reasons why the
Department of Justice established our office. That is also a reason we
investigated efforts to obstruct the investigation."
A: Not a Witch Hunt.
Q: Why no charges against El D?
"The order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate
actions that could obstruct the investigation. We conducted that
investigation, and we kept the office of the acting attorney general
apprised of the progress of our work. And as set forth in the report,
after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president
clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not,
however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a
crime.
The introduction to the Volume II of our report explains that decision.
It explains that under longstanding department policy, a president
cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That is
unconstitutional. Charging the president with a crime was therefore not
an option we could consider."
A: Because of a DoJ policy. Nothing else.
Q: So, what then?
"And second, the opinion says that the Constitution requires a process
other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting
president of wrongdoing."
A: The process "other than criminal justice" is of course impeachment.
The report is a blueprint of that.
Q: Why say "Trump is not not guilty"?
"And beyond department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness.
It would be unfair to potentially — it would be unfair to potentially
accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the
actual charge."
A: The "unfairness" is due to the aforementioned DoJ policy again. Not
because going beyond "not not guilty" (of obstruction) would have been
unfounded. The most important point Mueller makes and what he leaves unsaid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/politics/mueller-transcript.html
This completes what the report says: "If we had found Trump not guilty
of obstruction, we would have said that".
Mueller thinks the obstruction charges are grounded and points towards
impeachment.
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“I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can
become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of
Putin’s team to buy in on this”.
-- Felix Sater