Thread by @darinp2

Mueller's report vs Barr's "summary"

2/ The 2nd picture above shows that Mueller's team decided not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement, but I believe 1 of their statements about why is very important, and telling. I found the following on page 213 out of 448.

3/ "And apart from OLC's constitutional view, we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President's capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct."

4/ My interpretation of that is Mueller's team decided they would not accuse Trump of a federal crime even if they had enough evidence because of:
1) The burden.
2) We have non-federal criminal accusation ways of dealing with such conduct, like impeachment.

5 / In other words, I believe this is a big clue that Mueller and team were saying it is up to Congress to decide whether Trump obstructed justice (until Trump is out of office), and here is evidence we want Congress to use.

6/ Seems like Barr took that and decided since Mueller wouldn't make a federal criminal accusation against Trump, Barr would step in and basically say, "This is over." If Mueller's team meant what I think, of course that would infuriate them.

7/ Remember when people were accusing Mueller of being indecisive? If Barr had properly summarized the report that would not have happened. Barr showed me that he is either incompetent, or corrupt (or both). This tweet from April 4th is telling:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Delavegalaw/status/1113829950463692802

8/ Now we have much of the report and we see that Barr could have provided whole pages of explanations and summaries that first weekend without needing to redact anything. And we can see that Mueller wasn't indecisive. He provided his decision. We just needed his words.

9/ Refusing to overstep your role is not indecisive. It is a sign of integrity. Mueller knew that the constitution spelled out Congress as the decision makers for removing a President. Mueller showed integrity and Barr showed a lack of integrity, from what I've seen so far.

10/ I should include another statement in Mueller's report that I see getting more play, and which can be seen as supporting the quoted statement in tweet #3 above. This one is on page 220 out of 448.

11/ "The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law."

12/ Human beings are visual creatures, and based on this report I would like to see Mueller testify to the House on video ASAP. Imagine the news (and us) having a quick clip of Mueller affirming that Congress should make the call on obstruction (supporting impeachment hearings).

13/ Here is the footnote that goes with the statement from the report in tweet #3 above. I wonder if right now Mueller is wondering how slow we are and whether he needs to draw us a map. If he had written, "Congress, do your jobs" Barr would have probably redacted it.