Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Wire DOJ Finally Releases 2019 Memo Absolving Trump of Everything Mueller Documented in His Report

The Justice Department has released a 2019 memo that put to rest any prosecution of former President Donald Trump over allegations contained in the Mueller report.

Special counsel Robert Mueller, whose investigation was criticized by Trump, was hired to probe allegations of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. He found no such connections.

However, Mueller’s report cited 10 instances in which he believed there could have been possible obstruction of justice, without saying if they merited prosecution, according to NBC News.

That prompted a DOJ review, which culminated in the nine-page memo released Wednesday. The memo said there was no justification to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice.

The memo was released after the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit. The DOJ opposed the request, but lost the case in court, NPR reported.

The memo said Trump’s requests to fire Mueller were made “not for an illegal purpose, but rather because he believed the investigation was politically motivated and undermined his administration’s efforts to govern.”

The memo stressed that Trump wanted to end the distractions caused by the probe.

“The President’s public statements could be viewed as efforts to defend himself from public criticism related to the Special Counsel’s investigation or to discourage the witnesses from making what the President believed might be false statements in exchange for a lesser sentence. Those statements do not warrant a prosecution for obstruction of justice,” the memo said.

“In the absence of an underlying offense, the most compelling inference in evaluating the President’s conduct is that he reasonably believed that the Special Counsel’s investigation was interfering with his governing agenda.

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“Even if the President were objectively wrong about the intentions of the Special Counsel, many, if not all, of his actions could be viewed as lacking the intent element under the relevant statutes,” the memo said.

The memo touched on Trump’s dismissal of FBI Director James Comey and a comment he made to Comey related to an investigation of former national security advisor Michael Flynn.

“The President’s expression of ‘hope’ that Comey would ‘let this go’ did not clearly direct a particular action in the Flynn investigation, and Comey did not react at the time as though he had received a direct order from the President,” the memo said.

The result, the memo said, was that prosecution was not warranted.

“A fair evaluation of the special council’s findings and legal theories weighs in favor of declining prosecution,” the memo said.

“While cataloguing actions that the president took, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constituted obstructive acts, done with a nexus to a pending proceeding, with the corrupt intent necessary to warrant prosecution under the obstruction-of-justice statutes.”

Mueller’s “thorough investigation did not establish that the President committed any underlying crime related to Russian interference,” the memo said, noting that “it would be rare for federal prosecutors to bring an obstruction prosecution that did not itself arise out of a proceeding related to a separate crime.”

“Having reviewed the Report in light of the governing legal principles, and the Principles of Federal Prosecution, we conclude that none of these instances would warrant a prosecution for obstruction of justice, without regard to the constitutional constraint on bringing such an action against a sitting president,” the memo said.

“In addition, we believe that certain of the conduct examined by the Special Counsel could not, as a matter of law, support an obstruction charge under the circumstances.”

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77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

This just proves it's just another Witch Hunt the Biden Administration is trying to take away the president's executive privilege they think they can take president Trump's right to declassify documents away from him good luck proving that in the Supreme Court because they ruled in 1987 that the president had the sole power to declassify or classify documents as he sees fit all he has to do is raise a document into the air and say I Declassified this and it is so! There's nothing Biden can do! That's why they won't release the full affidavit unredacted! Trump just set them up in a trap! He got tipped off that they were coming anyway that's why they were in New Jersey not Mar-A-Lago! I want to see the damn surveillance tape that's what I want to see I want to see what they planted!

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

I also want to see that video. Time after time the stupid Democrats accuse Trump of breaking the law and it turns out that the stupid Democrats are wrong....again and again. Just like Wiley Cayote and the Road Runner where the stupid Democrats are always the Cayote getting blown up by his own bombs.....BEEP BEEP

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Jlw Loc: Wisconsin

Wow baby bob, a new meme

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Jlw Loc: Wisconsin

Gfy

American Vet

I suspect he does - with one hand - while the other holds a picture of President Trump.

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Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Great article. It will NEVER be seen on our Soviet era Pravda news networks.

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albertk

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

When trump the lying POS comes out with his cheaper and better healthcare plan.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

That's pretty funny right there lol!