Originally posted by cdtm
Looked to me like he was trying his level best to avoid making any definitive statement at all.More or less a plea to read the damned report, and stop asking for his opinion of the report.
Seems like he is struggling with his integrity. His integrity made him choose not to even try to determine if Trump committed a crime, I'm guessing cuz it could have potentially put him in the situation of saying "he committed a crime, but we can't do anything about it". Which isn't fair to anyone.
On the other hand his integrity wasn't showing when he essentially went "well we couldn't prove he's innocent". It's not the job of a prosecutor to exonerate, etc.
It's just as shady as him whining to Barr that he didn't like how the media was portraying his report. These are not things a prosecutor with integrity does.
Originally posted by SurturBarr has integrity though?
Seems like he is struggling with his integrity. His integrity made him choose not to even try to determine if Trump committed a crime, I'm guessing cuz it could have potentially put him in the situation of saying "he committed a crime, but we can't do anything about it". Which isn't fair to anyone.On the other hand his integrity wasn't showing when he essentially went "well we couldn't prove he's innocent". It's not the job of a prosecutor to exonerate, etc.
It's just as shady as him whining to Barr that he didn't like how the media was portraying his report. These are not things a prosecutor with integrity does.
Originally posted by Surtur
Seems like he is struggling with his integrity. His integrity made him choose not to even try to determine if Trump committed a crime, I'm guessing cuz it could have potentially put him in the situation of saying "he committed a crime, but we can't do anything about it". Which isn't fair to anyone.On the other hand his integrity wasn't showing when he essentially went "well we couldn't prove he's innocent". It's not the job of a prosecutor to exonerate, etc.
It's just as shady as him whining to Barr that he didn't like how the media was portraying his report. These are not things a prosecutor with integrity does.
There's also if his memory failed him and he said anything not in the report at all, he'd have both parties going after him.
Better to just keep saying "I refer you to my report" if they subpoena him, and eat a contempt ruling if they press him.
Re: Did Robert Muller completely exonerate Trump?
Originally posted by Putinbot1
"If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so" -Robert Swan Mueller III
This statement alone is extremely weird.
How does one get evidence so that you would be confident of "no crime"?
And why is it worded like "well any crime whatsoever" instead of "this specific crime"?
The wording seems deliberately misleading.
It's like me being accused of punching someone then when the investigator found no proof decided to go: "Am I sure that Nib never punched anybody? Well, no."
It just seems to me Mueller couldn't find anything and he was just convinced by dems to make the wording as confirmation-bias friendly as possible. :-/
Sorry guys. This tells me more about Trump being innocent than anything.