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The Cover-Up Crumbles As Michael Wolff Reports Mueller Had A 3-Count Obstruction Indictment Ready
Robert Mueller Reiterates Investigation Didn’t Exonerate Trump, Points To Impeachment
Robert Mueller on Wednesday encouraged Americans to read his special counsel report on Russian in- terference in the 2016 elec- tion and reiterated his office’s position that, while Presi- dent Donald Trump could not be charged with a crime while in office, that doesn’t amount to an exoneration.
“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said at a press conference at Jus- tice Department headquar- ters in which he also announced his resignation. “A President cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That is unconstitutional. ... Charging the President with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider.”
Mueller’s remarks al- luded to impeachment, say- ing that the U. S. Constitution “requires a process other than the criminal justice sys- tem to formally accuse a sit-
ROBERT MUELLER
ting president of wrongdo- ing.” Mueller said his office was “guided by principles of fairness” and that it “would be unfair to potentially ac- cuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of an actual charge.”
Mueller said his office “will not comment on any other conclusions or hypo- theticals about the president” given its decision not to reach a traditional prosecutorial decision about Trump’s conduct.
Mueller’s press confer- ence on Wednesday marked his first public statement about the special counsel’s investigation since it began two years ago. He announced that he was formally closing the special counsel’s office and that he was resigning from the Justice Department to return to private life.
While House Democrats have called for Mueller to testify before Congress, the former FBI director said he does not expect to speak pub- licly about the investigation again.
“I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak about this matter. I am making that decision myself —noonehastoldme whether I can or should tes- tify or speak further about this matter,” Mueller said.
“The report is my testi- mony. I would not provide in- formation beyond that which is already public in any ap- pearance before Congress,” Mueller stated.
While Trump has been fulminating with false accu- sations of “Treason” by Comey, McCabe, Strozk and Page for daring to inves- tigate contacts by four people — three of whom had already left his campaign — and their hundreds of contacts with Russians, he’s also had Nancy Pelosi trying to herd the cats of the Democratic caucus into a coherent strat- egy that will ultimately reveal the depths of the Great Trump Cover-up.
Gradually, a few of the lay- ers of that cover-up have begun to be peeled back as lawsuits by Trump attempt- ing to block House subpoe- nas for his financial information have been knocked down one by one. Federal Judges have ruled against his attempts to block subpoenas issued to Deutsche Bank and Capital One who have reportedly loaned TrumpCo over $2 Bil- lion in the years since he ap- parently lost $1.1 Billion according to a set of tax re-
Nancy Pelosi, completely under Trump's skin.
turns from 1985-1994 ob- tained and released by the New York Times. NY Attor- ney General Letitia James now has copies of some of the Deutsche Bank documents.
He’s also lost his suit to block his financial services firm Mazars USA LLP from complying with a House sub- poena, that case is now being fast-tracked to the appeals court.
Trump Claims Black Americans Won’t Vote For Joe Biden Due To Crime Bill Past
Is President Trump more popular with Black vot- ers than Joe Biden? Well apparently, he thinks so.
According to the New York Post, on Saturday, Trump concluded his four-day trip to Japan, by making some espe- cially bold declarations about the former Vice President and his relationship with African American voters.
“Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected. In particular, African Americans will not be ble
PRESIDENT TRUMP [sic] to vote for you,” Trump
said in a since-deleted tweet ahead of his return to Wash- ington, D. C. “I, on the other hand, was responsible for Criminal Justice Reform, which had tremendous sup- port, and helped fix the bad 1994 Bill!”
“Super Predator was the term associated with the 1994 Crime Bill that Sleepy Joe Biden was so heavily in- volved in passing,” he contin- ued in a second tweet. “That was a dark period in Ameri- can History, but has Sleepy Joe apologized? No!”
Testimony From Brother Of Andrew Gillum, Others Surfaces In Ethics Case
Missing receipts and ticket stubs, a coveted black Ameri- can Express card and cash- filled envelopes were just some of the details that emerged in video depositions of key players in the ethics in- vestigation of Andrew Gillum and his out-of-town vacations.
Gillum last month opted to settle state ethics charges involving trips he took in 2016 to Costa Rica and New York City with family, lobby- ist friends and undercover FBI agents investigating pub- lic corruption. The former
ANDREW GILLUM
Tallahassee mayor and last year's Democratic nominee for governor agreed to pay a $5,000 civil fine for accept- ing a gift over $100 from a
lobbyist.
In the days leading up to
the hearing date, Gillum's brother, Marcus Gillum, and a couple of other wit- nesses answered questions about the excursions under oath. Others deposed were Audra Pittman, former ex- ecutive director of the Coun- cil of Culture & Arts and the wife of lawyer, lobbyist and longtime Gillum adviser Sean Pittman, and Mary Kucek, a friend of lobbyist Adam Corey and an in- vestor in his Edison restau- rant.
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