Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Three Ways Mueller Says Trump Is Lying

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/three-ways-mueller-says-trump-lying/594631/?fbclid=IwAR3MkwMmMg9E0l4yVfxgeTU2ETjYhfmCJzCcRVVRoqb94U8ZjVgMnF0Yp1g
"Despite what Trump has repeatedly said, the report does not exonerate him. And while Mueller has been forced into semantic linguistics to avoid saying what is clear, his report laid out in great detail multiple examples where Trump met the three-prong test for obstruction of justice. But Mueller said in his report, and again today, that he had decided at the outset of his investigation that he would not bring charges against Trump regardless of evidence, because of Justice Department guidance that says a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime."