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Caliman73

(11,736 posts)
8. That and the separation of powers...
Fri Apr 19, 2019, 12:46 PM
Apr 2019

Rachel Maddow said it best when she was discussing the similarities between Mueller's investigation and the Watergate investigation. Cox and Jaworski did not come to any conclusion about indictments against the president, but laid everything out for Congress to put together because it was Congress that decides on oversight of the president.

Mueller operated within the mandate he was given as special prosecutor. He was not engaging in a criminal investigation which would have ever lead to a direct conviction of Trump. He spun off all other issues to the appropriate jurisdictions, and he created a report which provides all the findings from the questions that were initially posed without stating whether Trump should be prosecuted because that is not his place to say.

Of course people who support the president or in Greenwald's case, support the Russian view of the world; are going to say that the report exonerates the president. Conservatives are binary thinkers and Greenwald is bitter about a lot of things and has an axe to grind against what he sees as "the establishment".

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