Mueller Formally Closes Special Counsel’s Office, Ends Russia Probe, Resigns From DOJ – IOTW Report

Mueller Formally Closes Special Counsel’s Office, Ends Russia Probe, Resigns From DOJ

Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 11:36 MJA Uncategorized 34

Epoch Times:

Special counsel Robert Mueller on May 29 formally closed the special counsel office, announced an end to the Russia investigation, and said he will return to private life.

Mueller, speaking before reporters at the Department of Justice, said he will make no further comments about the investigation. The special counsel reiterated the findings of his final report and said any further inquiries should refer to the document as his testimony.

Mueller also clarified the report’s findings regarding obstruction of justice. The special counsel said that under long-standing Department of Justice policy it was not an option to charge the president with obstruction of justice.

Mueller concluded his 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election in March. Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of Mueller’s 400-plus-page report on April 18.

The special counsel concluded that there is not enough evidence to establish that President Donald Trump, or anyone on the Trump campaign, colluded with Russia. Mueller also decided against charging the president with obstruction of justice.

After Barr released the report, the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for a full unredacted version of the document and requested that Mueller appear to testify about the report.

The negotiations for the testimony stalled after the White House asserted executive privilege over the Mueller report in response to a Democrat-led effort to initiate contempt proceedings against Barr.  read more

34 Comments on Mueller Formally Closes Special Counsel’s Office, Ends Russia Probe, Resigns From DOJ

  3. His escape hatch got “Barred” so as quick as he could
    he finished his dirt and confused the backtrail with
    a 400 plus page load of horse crap.
    Now he’s fleeing from the legal hounds, a very angry
    President and around 60 million pissed off Americans.

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  4. This pig just threw enough raw meat out there with his vague statements to keep the dems in heat. He strongly suggested that they couldn’t get him because of legal restrictions but Trump should still be pursued.
    Mueller is in the thick of the treachery and knows it’s being exposed. This is deflection on his part and a grasp at a straw.
    He’s been acting very nervous and paranoid lately and it’s probably because he knows the house of cards is collapsing.

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  5. I didn’t listen to him, tv was muted, but saw on the screen below him:

    Mueller says if they had evidence the President did not commit crime the report would have said so.

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  6. …so he ended something he never had a legal right to begin.

    That’s nice.

    Still needs to go up on treason charges, followed by an air dance on a short rope, but if he turns on his co-conspirators maybe we’ll see to it he gets buried in secret so his grave doesn’t get violated…

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  7. Well that’s sad for the left because the spygate investigation has already started. And we voters can read.
    The media and House Dems will swear Mueller was talking in code and that he wants them to continue where he left off. Any sort of crying and screaming to distract. Because they know they’re fucked.

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  8. Old Racist White Woman – “Mueller says if they had evidence the President did not commit crime the report would have said so.”
    I saw that. So ridiculous. But it’s been TWO YEARS! It just looks like after 2 years he’s still pissed he has nothing and he’s being an asshole. Pathetic.

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  9. Mueller’s speech was very KGB’esque. He is acting like the burden of proof of no guilt is the responsibility of the person he’s accusing. Such crap! It’s like a cop walking up to each person coming out of a bank that was robbed 2 years prior and saying, “If I could prove you didn’t rob the bank, I would have said so in the report.” So now every person with an account at the bank has to forever carry an imposed burden of guilt? WTH?

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  12. But Mueller and Comey shrugged it off when they found out hillary paid for the ‘russian dossier’ that started this. And they also shrugged it off when they found out she had been throwing around classified emails from her own server. Oh, she was just a hot mess. She didn’t mean to break federal law, bless her heart.

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  13. When did Robespierre Mueller and his Committee of Public Safety know that there was nothing to the Russian Collusion claims? Did Mueller and his fellow Trump haters delay issuing their report for at least a year so that it would influence the midterm elections in 2018? Did Mueller prolong this investigation with the hope and expectation that Trump would lose his patience and actually commit obstruction of justice?

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  19. Mueller’s report, all 400+ pages of it, did NOT include, describe or allude to a crime that President Trump, or any of his people, committed. No crime.

    He just said this morning that, “If we had confidence that the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

    Mueller just reiterated what he said in the report that – if he had any evidence of a crime, he would have said so. But the way he said it will be interpreted by the left as a call to continue the investigation that Mueller failed to find a crime.

    What this means is that our justice system is now based on the innocent having to prove they didn’t do anything wrong.

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  20. How could the A hole stand up there and say no crimes and then imply a straight face there were crimes.
    That whole statement was just more deep state B.S.
    The left is going to be in another frothing at the mouth frenzy.

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  25. “Hello everyone. Today, after an investigation which found our President committed no crimes, I will issue vague enough statements so that the Democrats and their media can continue to harass the President, as though some crime is being covered up. And once I am finished here today with my statements, I will disappear from public view and will henceforth make no further statements or answer any of your questions to clarify anything regarding my 2 year, 38 million dollar investigation. Thank you.”

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  27. “What this means is that our justice system is now based on the innocent having to prove they didn’t do anything wrong.”

    …ONLY if you’re NOT a Democrat, @Claudia.

    …the corollary to this is, if you ARE a Democrat, NO AMOUNT of evidence is sufficient, you are always and forever innocent and above reproach, however guilty you may be.

    …just look at Hillary and Mueller himself for proof of that.

    Or, as Obama’s mentor Bill Ayers put it “Guilty as sin and free as a bird”.

    …probably save time to just ask the accused his party affiliation and determine guilt or innocence on that basis alone. We’re not far from there, and it’s what REAL Communist do elsewhere, so coming soon to a theater near YOU…

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  29. There are clips of chimps approaching the masses lined up to see them and then the chimp throwing handful of monkey excrement at the admiring masses. Literally peppering the audience with it’s own bodily waist. (click here for a monkey’s interpretation/ reenactment of Muller’s press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxdnKQX3SqI with CNN & MSNBC’s loving response)

    Metaphorically speaking, Muller just did that to the Press corps and the nation. He just, with the flick of the wrist, changed the burden of proof from the state having to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to the individual having to prove their innocence 100%. Davy nailed it on the head- ‘there is no proof Trump was not in on JFK’s assassination so he must be guilty of that also’.

    Stalin summed it up best “show me the man and I will find the crime”. If Democrats had a soul a sense of shame would have ended this before it began. But they lost their collective souls circa 1992 but the rot goes back farther to at least Chappaquiddick.

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  30. Erick Erickson’s hot take: “Republicans heard what they wanted to hear, and Democrats heard what they wanted to hear.”

    No doubt Erickson will tell us later how both sides are wrong, he’s got the truth of the matter and Trump should be very worried. It’s all he knows how to do.

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  31. It was the opposite of Saint Comeys Hillary spiel…lots of probable cause but no prosecutors would indict

    Saint Mulehead No probable cause but should be indicted, just not by me.

    All these weasels will meet justice soon. Except Mulehead, he cut a deal to save his own ass from Uranium One. That is why Barr is not afraid of any further testimony from him, he knows he is out to save his own skin.

    It’s all beginning to unravel now, grab some popcorn. MAGA

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  32. MJA, he is the biggest asshole and shows what a joke our DOJ and FBI are.

    The sorry piece of shit should have to answer to the American people about why he spent so much damn money, why he continued a farce of an investigation for two years, why he released a report full of false bullshit they could not prove, and why the hell he came out and gave a one sided press conference. If his report is his testimony then he should have stayed the hell away from the media.

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