Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Mr. Mueller "does not plan to testify before Congress"


Tell Mr. Mueller what he already knows:  If Congress calls him to testify, his plans will have to change.


Might have known the bitch was lying.  Pardon me if I sound a little ungenerous toward Miss Sarah. 

We'll move on when Congress does its job and impeaches the criminal in the oval office.


No, asshat.  in our country a person is "presumed" innocent until "proven" guilty in a court of law.  That could still happen.






Perhaps we should have a look at Mueller's statement:


Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, declined on Wednesday to clear President Trump of obstruction of justice in his first public characterization of his two-year investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mr. Mueller said, reading from prepared notes behind a lectern at the Justice Department at a hastily called appearance.

He also noted that while Justice Department policy prohibits charging a sitting president with a crime, the Constitution provides for another remedy to formally accuse a president of wrongdoing — a clear reference to the ability of Congress to conduct impeachment proceedings.

Although it lasted only 10 minutes, the news conference presented an extraordinary spectacle of a top law enforcement official publicly stating that the president’s conduct had warranted criminal investigation, even though it was impossible to indict him for any crimes.

[...]

Mr. Mueller [...] stressed the gravity of the allegations against the president. Although he noted that his office did not “make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime,” he said, “the matters we investigated were of paramount importance.”

[...]

Although his comments suggested he was more troubled by Mr. Trump’s actions than Mr. Barr, Mr. Mueller took pains to defend how the attorney general handled his report — a subject of previous disagreement between the two men.

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“I certainly do not question the attorney general’s good faith in that decision.” He also complimented Mr. Barr’s decision to make almost the entire report public.

[...]

Mr. Mueller said his news conference was his final word on his investigation. He would not comment further, he said, on the actions of the Justice Department or Congress. He suggested that Democrats in Congress were wasting their time in seeking his testimony because he would simply repeat what he stated in his report. “The report is my testimony,” he said.

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They can still call him in.



Mueller will testify any time Congress calls him to do so, but it's a fair point to think it's possible that if it's during impeachment hearings, he'd say more.

Ken White/Josh Barro podcast:






Yes.  Trump certainly understands the impact of television.





See that you do, Jerry.  See that you do.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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UPDATE:



You know how that could happen?  Start impeachment hearings and subpoena him.

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