Does not exonerate
Word is the Mueller report says they didn’t find evidence that Trump conspired with Russia but they’re not exonerating him either. Naturally Trump interpreted that as “Complete and Total EXONERATION,” because in Trumpland “not exonerating=TOTAL EXONERATION.”
Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find Donald Trump’s campaign or associates conspired with Russia, Attorney General William Barr said Sunday.
Mueller’s investigation of whether the President committed obstruction of justice did not conclude the President committed a crime, but it also “does not exonerate him,” Barr quoted from Mueller’s report.
Not proven but not disproven. Not the same as totally exonerated.
Trump and his allies charged that Mueller’s report fully vindicated the President, while Democrats were already raising questions about Barr making the decision on obstruction, a signal that the fight and the fallout from Mueller’s investigation is far from over.
Mueller did not make the decision himself on whether to prosecute the President on obstruction. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made the determination the evidence was “not sufficient” to support prosecution.
But Barr is dirty. Barr wrote that memo, on his own initiative, for free.
Meanwhile we watch Trump obstructing justice every day right in front of us, but whatever.
Trump admitted to obstruction his own investigation on national tv, and yet this was not sufficient to warrant comment. But when Comey found a few more emails of Hillary’s to search through, he preempted his own search through them to announce that there were new materials in need of checking. (And then they were checked and found to be empty.)
Also, Bill was impeached for lying about his sex life, but Trump will likely never be. What the fuck is going on up there??
…under oath, before congress.