The Justice Department and the Special Counsel’s Office put a united front to end the rampant speculation that Robert Mueller contradicted Attorney General William Barr on the decision-making on whether President Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice during his public address.
“The Attorney General has previously stated that the Special Counsel repeatedly affirmed that he was not saying that, but for the OLC opinion, he would have found the President obstructed justice. The Special Counsel’s report and his statement today made clear that the office concluded it would not reach a determination — one way or the other — about whether the President committed a crime. There is no conflict between these statements,” a joint statement from DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec and Mueller spokesman Peter Carr said.
BREAKING: A joint statement from the DOJ and the SC’s office says that Barr’s remark that Mueller repeatedly affirmed that he was *not* saying that Trump would have been charged with obstruction if he was not president, does *not* contradict what Mueller said today. pic.twitter.com/kyTwp3QOWn
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 29, 2019
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