Mueller was unable to conclude that "no criminal conduct occurred"

[George II]

Source: CNN

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was unable to clear the president on obstruction. The report states that the evidence obtained “about the about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.”

Here's what the special counsel team said:

"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, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/robert-mueller-report-public/h_bb6abaa8481c4b0f43a40cdde75bbb00

[ScratchCat]

1. IOW,

"If I would have interviewed Trump, I could have confidently made the determination that he obstructed justice. But, hey, who needs to force him to sit down and answer questions? We'll just conclude we couldn't conclude."

So unless the report states someone didn't let him subpoena Trump, Mueller screwed us.

[lagomorph777]

3. So we can safely forget that Trump confessed his motives to Lester Holt?

..on TV?

[Maxheader]

2. The traitor isn't going to like that...

Wonder why the a.g.. said it did?

[Maven]

4. How were his daily tweeting activities ALONE not obstruction?

Maligning the investigation, threatening potential witnesses, etc? Why are we constantly asked to give this asshole the benefit of the doubt in the face of his obvious and blatant criminality? WTF?

[Maxheader]

5. What about this?

Mueller report could not conclude that Trump obstructed justice

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/mueller-report-release/index.html

[yaesu]

6. According to MSNBS

Even the redacted Mueller report shows that the president spent hours trying to obstruct this report, he had no interest in the fact that this country was attacked by a foreign country, he was only interested in saving his butt.

[cstanleytech]

7. Which is why Trump refused to testify and demanded written questions and its one major area Mueller

failed as far as doing a complete investigation.

[DirtEdonE]

8. IOW, mueller is saying blah blah blah bullshit I did what the gop paid me to do.

If they couldn't clear trump of obstruction charges then an indictment should have been recommended.

What the fuck kind of doubletalk bullshit is this?

It's mueller doubletalk bullshit. That's what kind it is.

[rockfordfile]

9. That's exactly it. If you are to young to know history, when Republicans whitewash"investigations".

The House must continue the investigation into Trumpgop and Russia.

[DirtEdonE]

11. This is crunch time

I keep going back to this:

"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

Read the book. With a few changes, it could be contemporary history.

[ancianita]

10. This is their handoff to Congress to do what they can't do.