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This will continue the destruction of comrade GURPS' propaganda, William Barr's 4 page "summary" and Donald Trump's claims of "No Obstruction":
For those who don't understand English: the above clearly states Mueller's rationale for not seeking an indictment of the President for obstruction. It is NOT because he found no evidence. It is NOT because Trump is innocent. It is because of the OLC opinion on prosecuting a sitting President. Read it again if you don't understand.
Comrade GURPS, the ignorati, William Barr, Donald Trump and the right wing echo chamber claim "no evidence" of and "total exoneration" on obstruction.
If that were true:
1. Volume II would be now more than a few paragraphs and end with wording similar to the effect of " We find no evidence of obstruction on the part of Donald J. Trump. It doesn't say that.
2. Instead Volume II is a 182 page document created, according to Item 2, that was created "to preserve the evidence when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available."
First,
a traditional prosecution or declination decision entails a binary determination to initiate or decline a prosecution, but we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment. The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has issued an opinion finding that "the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions" in violation of "the constitutional separation of powers."1 Given the role of the Special Counsel as an attorney in the Department of Justice and the framework of the Special Counsel regulations, see 28 U.S.C. § 515; 28 C.F.R. § 600.7(a), this Office accepted OLC's legal conclusion for the purpose of exercising prosecutorial jurisdiction. And apart from OLC's constitutional view, we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President's capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct.2
For those who don't understand English: the above clearly states Mueller's rationale for not seeking an indictment of the President for obstruction. It is NOT because he found no evidence. It is NOT because Trump is innocent. It is because of the OLC opinion on prosecuting a sitting President. Read it again if you don't understand.
Second,
while the OLC opinion concludes that a sitting President may not be prosecuted, it recognizes that a criminal investigation during the President's term is permissible.3 The OLC opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office.4 And if individuals other than the President committed an obstruction offense, they may be prosecuted at this time. Given those considerations, the facts known to us, and the strong public interest in safeguarding the integrity of the criminal justice system, we conducted a thorough factual investigation in order to preserve the evidence when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available.
Comrade GURPS, the ignorati, William Barr, Donald Trump and the right wing echo chamber claim "no evidence" of and "total exoneration" on obstruction.
If that were true:
1. Volume II would be now more than a few paragraphs and end with wording similar to the effect of " We find no evidence of obstruction on the part of Donald J. Trump. It doesn't say that.
2. Instead Volume II is a 182 page document created, according to Item 2, that was created "to preserve the evidence when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available."