Thread by @gtconway3d

“Mueller said his ‘report does not conclude that the President committed a crime’ but that ‘it also does not exonerate him.’ The report does not exonerate the president? That’s a stunning thing for a prosecutor to say. Mueller didn’t have to say that.”

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“Giuliani ... called the statement a ‘cheap shot.’

“But Mueller isn’t prone to cheap shots .... If his report doesn’t exonerate the president, there must be something pretty damning in it about him, even if it might not suffice to prove a crime ....”

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“Barr’s letter makes clear that the report ... catalogues actions [Trump took] privately that shed light on possible obstruction, actions that the American people and Congress yet know nothing about.”

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“Mueller ... ‘determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment’ regarding obstruction[,] [and seemingly chose] to allow the American people and Congress to decide what to make of the facts. And that is what should — must — happen now.”

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“But whether the Mueller report ever sees the light of day, there is one charge that can be resolved now.”

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“Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal. They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office.”

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“Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and to faithfully execute his office and the laws in accordance with the Constitution. That oath requires putting the national interests above his personal interests.”

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“Yet virtually from the moment he took office, in his response to the Russia investigation, Trump has done precisely the opposite: ....”

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“[Trump] attacked an attorney general, Mueller, the Justice Department [and] suggest[ed] that his own deputy attorney general should go to jail. ... [Trump’s] own lawyers wouldn’t dare let him speak to Mueller, lest he commit a crime.”

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“[Trump has] [b]een more concerned about touting his supposedly historic election victory than confronting an attack on our democracy by a hostile foreign power.”

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“If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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