“I’m going to make the decisions based on the law and the facts and I realize that's in tension with the political climate we live in because people are more interested in getting their way politically." — AG Barr tells @JanCBS
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It was improper as a prosecutor for Mueller to suggest that Trump was not innocent, if he didn’t charge him or come to a conclusion on obstruction. Prosecutors don’t exonerate and aren’t supposed to suggest such things. And it was improper to suggest that Congress should then take up the cause, for the same reason.
Via Daily Caller:
Attorney General Bill Barr said in an interview with CBS News that he believes now-former special counsel Robert Mueller could’ve reached a conclusion as to whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.
Mueller, after completing his investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, said that he did not find evidence of a conspiracy but declined to make a decision on obstruction.
“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said during a rare public statement on Wednesday.
In a preview of an interview with CBS News that was released Thursday, Barr disagreed with Mueller’s decision to punt on the obstruction portion of the investigation.