During a nine minute TV statement,
Mueller said that his non-decision decision on whether the president obstructed justice
was "informed" by
"a long-standing opinion by the
Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)
at the Justice Department that a
sitting president cannot be charged
with a crime ...That is unconstitutional.
Even if the charge is kept under seal
and hidden from public view,
that too is prohibited."
That’s not what Mueller told multiple people.
Here’s what AG Bill Barr told Senators
during his May 1, 2019 testimony:
“Mueller stated three times to us
in that meeting, in response to our
questioning, that he emphatically
was NOT saying that but for the
OLC opinion he would have found
obstruction.”
Barr said there were others
in the meeting who heard Mueller
say the same thing, and Barr repeated
this in his news conference the day
the Mueller Report was released
to the public:
“We specifically asked him (Mueller)
about the OLC opinion and whether
or not he was taking a position that
he would have found a crime but for
the existence of the OLC opinion. "
"And he made it very clear
several times that was not
his position.”
Mueller told
a different story
during his
nine minutes of fame
on live television.
That means
Mueller lied
to the public
in, or to the
Attorney General.
Famous liberal , and Hillary Clinton
supporter, Harvard law professor
Alan Dershowitz, slammed Mueller
in a The Hill op-ed:
"Until today, I have defended
Mueller against the accusations
that he is a partisan."
"I did not believe that
he personally favored
either the Democrats
or the Republicans,
or had a point of view
on whether President
Trump should be impeached."
"But I have now changed my mind."
"By putting his thumb,
indeed his elbow,
on the scale of justice
in favor of impeachment
based on
obstruction of justice,
Mueller has revealed
his partisan bias."
"He also has distorted
the critical role
of a prosecutor
in our justice system."
Dershowitz added that
what Mueller said on TV:
“is worse than the statement made
by then FBI Director James Comey
regarding Hillary Clinton during the
2016 presidential campaign,”
regarding the recklessness
with which she handled classified
material, concluding defiantly:
"No prosecutor should ever say
or do anything for the purpose of
helping one party or the other.
"I cannot imagine a plausible reason
why Mueller went beyond his report
and gratuitously suggested that
President Trump might be guilty,
except to help Democrats in Congress
and to encourage impeachment talk
and action."
"Shame on Mueller
for abusing
his position of trust
and for allowing himself
to be used for such
partisan advantage."
Fox News' Greg Jarrett ,
summed things up well:
"He (Mueller) refused to make
a decision to charge the president
in a court of law but was
more than willing to indict him
in the court of public opinion
... His report was a
non-indictment
indictment.
It was calumny
masquerading
as a report."