The special counsel said he did not conclude whether President Trump committed a crime — but did not exonerate him.
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Rosalind S. Helderman Reporter focusing on political enterprise stories and investigations Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow March 24 at 9:44 PM Special counsel Robert S.
That has left the question of Trump’s actions — which included the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey, the public attacks on his attorney general Jeff Sessions, the regular cries of “witch hunt” and the taunting of witnesses — as one that will now be wrestled with in the political arena. Rosenberg said he was not surprised by the special counsel’s difficulties in drawing a conclusion on obstruction, noting that it is a complicated calculus to prove someone intended to block investigators and hide a crime.In his report, Mueller addressed obstruction in an unusual way: He laid out evidence on both sides of the question but left “unresolved what the Special Counsel views as ‘difficult issues’ of law and fact,” Barr wrote in his summary.
To find criminal obstruction, a prosecutor must have evidence that a person’s actions would have the “natural and probable effect” of disrupting an investigation, said Mary McCord, former acting head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, who oversaw the early stages of the investigation.
“On the merits then, Barr and Rosenstein together have reached the question that Mueller specifically avoided reaching, and they reached it very rapidly,” he said. Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer who advised Trump in the investigation’s first months, told others that the president was merely thin-skinned and he lashed out because he could not stand the idea that he was under scrutiny, according to people familiar with his comments.
When Trump fired Comey, he told a Russian diplomat in the Oval Office and then an NBC News reporter that he did so with the Russia investigation in mind. While in ordinary cases, the underlying evidence often should not be disclosed if it did not result in a charge, in the case of a high-level public official who is running for reelection next year, “the public has a right to know the facts” so they can make their own determinations about the official’s fitness to serve, she said.
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