(05-29-2019 02:04 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 01:32 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 12:34 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 12:23 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Mueller breaks his silence and provides a pretty clear indication that the only reason he did not indict Trump for OO is because he is barred from indicting a sitting president as a DOJ member.

Quote:Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he was legally barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasized that his Russia report did not exonerate the president. If he could have cleared Trump of obstruction of justice he “would have said so,” Mueller said....

“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mueller said. “We did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”

https://apnews.com/94323cfc164c4759ba6bf84ad2a46203

Golly gee, the news is that Mueller did not exonerate Trump but also could not determine if he did commit a crime? Could not say yea or nay?

He said that he wasn't allowed to charge the President with a crime. He clearly believes that Trump committed crimes or he told us that he would have said otherwise.

Mueller's position seems pretty clear.

That stretches Mueller's words. His quoted statement does not say that Mueller et al. believe that the President committed a crime. Rather, it says that they cannot say that he clearly did not commit a crime. That's very different -- as fundamental as the difference between "Yes" and "I don't know".