(February 3, 2023 at 5:29 am)Belacqua Wrote: from the CJR:
Quote:The end of the long inquiry into whether Donald Trump was colluding with Russia came in July 2019, when Robert Mueller III, the special counsel, took seven, sometimes painful, hours to essentially say no.
This is a misstatement of Mueller's conclusion vis collusion. What Mueller actually testified as to his conclusions:
Quote:Former special counsel Robert Mueller pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s characterizations of his 22-month investigation, telling lawmakers on Wednesday that he did not evaluate “collusion” with the Russian government, and confirming that his report did not conclude that there was “no obstruction” of the probe.
“The president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed,” Mueller told the House judiciary committee, adding that Trump could theoretically be indicted after he leaves office.
“We did not address ‘collusion,’ which is not a legal term,” Mueller added. “Rather, we focused on whether the evidence was sufficient to charge any member of the campaign with taking part in a criminal conspiracy. It was not.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/mueller-...tion-line/
I wonder why they'd make such an obvious misrepresentation regarding something of such wide public knowledge. I also wonder why you don't seem to vet your own sources very stringently.
