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To: Sdgla who wrote (1130359)	4/18/2019 11:33:25 AM
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Mueller Said He Would Have Exonerated Trump On Obstruction If The Evidence Supported It, But He Couldn’t ...Mueller’s report details a series of situations that raised questions about whether the president had committed obstruction. They are: How the Trump campaign responded to reports that the Russians were backing Trump. Trump’s comments in 2017 to then-FBI director James Comey about then-national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey wrote in a memo released last April that during a meeting with Trump on Feb. 14, the president told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy.” Trump’s own response to the pending Russia investigation. Trump’s decision to fire Comey. Trump’s reaction to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s decision to appoint Mueller and his direction to then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to remove Mueller. Mueller said McGahn was prepared to resign “rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre.” Efforts by Trump to have his former attorney general Jeff Sessions limit the scope of Mueller’s investigation. How Trump handled the public response to reports about the Trump Tower meeting between his campaign and Russians on June 9, 2016. A conversation Trump had with Sessions asking him to reverse his recusal from the Russia probe. Efforts by Trump to have McGahn deny that Trump ordered him to remove Mueller. How Trump responded to the prosecutions of Flynn and his former campaign chair Paul Manafort. Trump’s comments about his former personal attorney Michael Cohen’s decision to cooperate with investigators. Mueller wrote that historical guidance from the Justice Department against indicting a sitting president in part guided his decision not to make a “traditional prosecutorial judgment” about whether Trump committed obstruction. The Office of Legal Counsel had previously issued an opinion that the indictment of a sitting president would “impermissibly undermine” the functions of the executive branch, and Mueller said he recognized that independently as well. buzzfeednews.com