Mueller report on obstruction: '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 process for addressing presidential misconduct.'
The document also revealed the president launched an "f-bomb" when he found out a special counsel had been named to investigate him.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Dareh Gregorian and Julia Ainsley
Mueller's office says it weighed charging Trump with obstruction, but didn't in part because"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 process for addressing presidential misconduct.
The"evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes or that would give rise to personal and political concerns," it says, noting that Trump had publicly said he'd had no business dealings with Russia even though he'd been aware his company was trying to get a Trump Tower built in Moscow.
"The president's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests," the special counsel wrote. "At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgement. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
Among those who cited or retweeted IRA-controlled accounts were two of the president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the report notes.
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