Mr Mueller's report would be shocking were it not for the frog-boiling nature of living through the Trump presidency
after Robert Mueller’s report was made public, Elizabeth Warren, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination who is polling in the single digits, tried to distinguish herself from the pack by calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment. A couple of other candidates, including Kamala Harris, weakly echoed her call. Democratic congressional leaders, by contrast, did not.
In 1998 the House decided that lying to a grand jury and tampering with witnesses constituted impeachable offences against Bill Clinton. In 1974 the House felt that obstructing a federal investigation, abusing executive power and ignoring subpoenas constituted impeachable offences committed by Nixon. Neither president was removed .
Meanwhile, Russian military-intelligence officers were hacking into and stealing documents from Democratic Party servers and email accounts of people working for Mrs Clinton’s campaign; and employees of the Internet Research Agency, a company based in St Petersburg, were building fake social-media accounts that reached as many as 126m people.
Mr Barr also said that the White House “fully co-operated” with the probe. In fact Mr Trump refused to be interviewed, submitting only written answers. Mr Mueller sniffed at “the insufficiency of those responses,” noting that Mr Trump claimed some form of memory failure more than 30 times. Other answers were “incomplete or imprecise”. Mr Barr decided that the evidence failed to establish that Mr Trump obstructed justice.
Mr Mueller declined to recommend prosecution because Justice Department guidelines warn against indicting a sitting president. But he left open the prospect of a post-presidential indictment, noting that he gathered evidence now “when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available.” And he recognised that “the separation-of-powers doctrine authorises Congress to protect official proceedings…from corrupt, obstructive acts, regardless of their source.
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