Davis: The shocking fact that Mueller never would have accused Trump of a crime
By Lanny J. Davis, Opinion Contributor — 04/24/19 10:30 AM EDT
When you have a president who even his most ardent supporters admit lies frequently, a president who knows he lies and doesn’t care because he knows his supporters don’t care, it is important to identify what Mr. Mueller actually wrote in his report compared to Trump’s efforts to lie about it.
The first Trump lie was when he claimed on Twitter and to the world that Mr. Mueller’s report had “exonerated†him on all charges, including criminal obstruction of justice.
William Barr, supposed to be the attorney general for the American people but who has acted more like the personal attorney for Mr. Trump (his own “Roy Cohn†as Mr. Trump would say), falsely implied that the obstruction-of-justice issue was a close call on the evidence. That is not what Mr. Mueller wrote.
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