Wednesday, May 29, 2019

OPINION_ Robert Mueller’s ‘final statement’ was a disgraceful mess

NEW YORK POST

OPINION

Robert Mueller’s ‘final statement’ was a disgraceful mess

By John Podhoretz

May 29, 2019 | 12:54pm



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Special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s statement upon the shuttering of his two-year investigation into the Trump campaign was weird even by the standards of the weirdness of the past couple of years. “Charging the president with a crime was not something we could consider,” he reported. Indeed, even pursuing that question, he added, would have been unconstitutional under long-standing Justice Department guidelines.

But then he said that if his office could have exonerated the president, it would have: “If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

Granted, he said pretty much the same thing in the report he produced: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.”

His statement was only 8 minutes long. The report is 400 pages long. It matters what he chose to repeat from it and what he did not. He wanted the American people to hear him speak those words. He wanted to emphasize this point.

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/muellers-final-statement-was-a-disgraceful-mess/

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Mueller wanted the American people to hear him say he couldn’t dissipate the cloud. And by announcing that, he just spread it out over the president’s head again. This is why his peculiar locutions and soothsayer ambiguity represent a terrible failure of his mission as a public servant in this case.

He hasn’t clarified. He has muddied.

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