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9 questions about the Mueller report you were too embarrassed to ask

What might the Mueller report look like? What will be covered in it? Will we get to see it?

By Andrew [e-mail] Updated Mar 22, 2019, 6:06pm EDT

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6) But what will the report say about President Trump?

There’s an elephant in the room. How do you apply the framework of a report on prosecution decisions when one subject you’ve been investigating is the president of the United States — who the Justice Department has said .. https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17766218/michael-cohen-guilty-plea-trump-impeached-indicted .. can’t be indicted while he’s in office?

If Mueller truly has found no criminal activity from Trump, there’s of course no problem. But if he does, what’s to be done? Seal up an indictment till Trump’s out of office? Document all his illegal conduct, but then conclude it with “we decided not to prosecute solely because he’s the president”? Or just be a legend, reject the Office of Legal Counsel’s past advice, and try to charge him anyway?


Reps. Jackie Speier (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Peter Welch (D-VT) take part in a news conference to show support
of special counsel Robert Mueller on December 21, 2107. Alex Wong/Getty Images

The report could be Mueller’s solution to this problem. We know from the leaked list of questions he wanted to ask Trump .. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/questions-mueller-wants-to-ask-trump-russia.html .. that he’s tried to document the president’s actions in great detail, particularly with regards to obstruction of justice. Mueller could be using his report to lay out a prosecutorial fact pattern about the president, akin to those in his indictments — under the assumption that Congress would eventually get ahold of it and consider impeachment.

Or he could have no such intention. It’s also quite possible that the report could disappoint Trump’s critics by making clear that in the end, Mueller found no evidence directly implicating the president in any conspiracy to interfere with the election, and decline to directly allege that the president’s actions qualified as criminal obstruction of justice.

https://www.vox.com/2019/2/22/18176845/mueller-report-explained-trump-russia-investigation

Why would anyone be against the public release of a minimally redacted Mueller report? To defend Trump. That's not a valid reason.

See also:

Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team
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Summaries were prepared for different sections of the report, with a view that they could be made public, the official said.
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DrHarleyboy, Don’t Wait For a Redacted Mueller Report
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Congressional Democrats are right to demand the full report – but they are wrong to ask the attorney general to violate the law. Instead, they should learn from the lessons of Watergate and the example of Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and House Judiciary Chair Peter Rodino. They should demand the full report but only for their own use. They should use it as a road map for their own investigation. And they should not wait. .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=147995115