Thread by @jentaub

Here we go

#MuellerSpeaks

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Closing the investigation. I am resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private live. . .Offices written work should speak for itself. #MuellerSpeaks

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He begins with part I of the report. Russian interference with the 2016 election. Discusses the two indictments from Feb. 2017 and July 2017. #MuellerSpeaks

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Now discussing obstruction which strikes at the core of the government's ability to search for the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable

#MuellerSpeaks

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Now he is briefly describing both volumes. "If we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime we would have said so. . ." Points to introduction to Volume II of the report. "A president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office"

#MuellerSpeaks

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Said he was bound by the policy. "Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could not consider." BOOM.

(typo corrected)

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