Mueller Report Lays Out Obstruction Evidence Against The President

Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post, Denver Post: Politics
Thu, 04/18/2019 - 10:31pm

WASHINGTON – The long-awaited report from special counsel Robert Mueller details abundant evidence against President Donald Trump – finding 10 episodes of suspicious behavior – but ultimately concluding it was not Mueller’s role to determine whether the commander in chief broke the law. “The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment,” Mueller’s team stated in the report submitted to Congress on Thursday.

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