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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: Ted Lieu Thinks He Got Huge Admission from Mueller, Then Bumbling Mueller Blows It Apart on Nat’l TV Ted Lieu Thinks He Got Huge Admission from Mueller, Then Bumbling Mueller Blows It Apart on Nat’l TV Volume 90% By Joe Setyon Published July 24, 2019 at 11:12am A key moment from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday morning before the House Judiciary Committee was celebrated by some Democrats as proof that President Donald Trump obstructed justice and should thus be impeached. Shockingly (or maybe not so much), this moment blew up in their faces when Mueller issued a correction later on. Mueller, who was testifying about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, was asked by Rep. Ted Lieu, a pro-impeachment Democrat from California, about his decision not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice. Lieu referred to a decades-old internal Justice Department guideline that protects a sitting president from being indicted by the federal government. The policy comes from a 1973 memorandum from the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, written while then-President Richard Nixon was mired in the Watergate scandal. “A President may not be able fully to discharge the powers and duties of his office if he had to defend a criminal prosecution,” the document reads. In 2000, after then-President Bill Clinton was impeached, the DOJ noted that “the conclusion reached by the Department in 1973 still represents the best interpretation of the Constitution.” The Democrats’ reasoning goes something like this: Mueller decided not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice only because he was bound by the DOJ guideline, despite having found evidence that Trump committed a crime. And Democrats sure thought they were right after the answer Mueller gave Lieu. “The reason again that you did not indict Donald Trump is because of the OLC opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?” Lieu asked. “That is correct,” Mueller responded. Poster Comment: Not so fast! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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