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Wanglicious posted...

no, worse than that.
he explicitly corrected this.

mueller was asked if that OCL opinion was the reason he didn't indict the president, said yes, then later said he'd like to correct the record to say they never made a determination on whether or not a crime was committed. as in, he never goes so far as to deal with a crime, he just puts out the facts. now you can try to say his earlier comment was a "mistake" or you can say his earlier comment was an actual mistake. but both are valid interpretations and the most recent one is saying "no, that's not why, we just never bothered going that far."

Mueller apparently has the belief that, given the OLC memo, it would be inappropriate for him to say that Trump has committed crimes without actually indicting him, as he then has no way to clear himself. However, the evidence that he laid out is very convincing of the fact that Trump did obstruct justice. Hence the if we could exonerate the president, we would have done so line.

I mean, what the hell else are you supposed to call Trump ordering Don McGahn to fire Mueller? Are any of you going to argue that that was acceptable behavior for a president and not an abuse of his office?

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