Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney claimed Sunday that Robert Mueller intended for the attorney general to determine whether Trump obstructed justice
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney claimed Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller intended for Attorney General William Barr to determine whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice in the FBI’s investigation into Russian election interference.
“What you saw here is simply Mueller saying, ‘You know what? I’m going to let Barr call this one,’” Mulvaney said, discussing the final report on Mueller’s 22-month probe with host Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.”“He had plenty of evidence to say on collusion, ‘Absolutely not,’ and he actually punted over to Barr,” Mulvaney continued. “Again, that’s the way the system can and does work.”
In a four-page letter delivered to Congress last weekend summarizing the “principal conclusions” of Mueller’s nearly-400-page report, Barr wrote that the special counsel’s probe “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities” during the 2016 White House race.
But the attorney general revealed that Mueller declined to rule on whether the president obstructed justice through means including his firing of former FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.
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