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Ben Wikler
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Okay, so, it’s up to Congress.
Mueller:

"If we had confidence that the President did not commit a crime we would have said so."

“Charging the president with a crime is not an option we could consider."

Two dots so easy to connect that they’re practically a Venn diagram.

(Thx @Mikel_Jollett for quotes)
@mattyglesias I don’t remember how to diagram these quotes with formal logical operators, but it seems like a good concept for a t-shirt
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Key Mueller takeaways:

1) He was prevented from charging the president by policy and law.
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Does. Not. Exonerate.
"If we had confidence that [#Trump] clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so..

By regulation, it was bound by [DOJ] policy ..Charging [Trump] with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider.”

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"If we had confidence that the President did not commit a crime we would have said so" #mueller
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Mueller is talking about the obstruction part of his investigation. Repeats that he would have said so if he had confidence the president did not commit an obstruction crime.
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