Donald Trump is reported to be relieved.
Robert mueller’s final report, delivered to the minister of justice, William Barr on Friday, can accommodate no new criminal charges.
It means that the president’s family members survived, although at least his son Donald Trump jr., conferred with a Russian lawyer in Trumpskrapan in New York city during the height of the election campaign.
the President sagging in addition to being interviewed by Robert Mueller. Trumps lawyers in the White house sees this as a triumph, because an interview with Trump face-to-face could easily be used against him. Trump’s father often with untruth, which is a crime when talking with the FBI.
would be prosecuted by Robert Mueller. It is in the department of justice’s guidelines that a president who is being prosecuted may find it difficult to fulfill his duties vis-à-vis the constitution, since the president would be occupied by the proceedings in question.
Then, you prefer to wait until the president, forcibly removed by impeachment or lost an election.
And it is still possible to Muellerrapporten accommodates information about the Trump that is so damaging that congress would consider opening a riksrättsförförande against him.
the report. He finds himself at the Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, his members club in south Florida. On Saturday morning he played golf. The evening before, he ate dinner with, among others, Lindsey Graham, the republican senator who is the chairman of the committee on justice.
Reports from the dinner says that Graham lashed out against Muellerutredningen and middagssällskapet began chanting ”Lock her up!”, if Hillary Clinton. Many american opinion leaders on outer right wing is pushing the thesis that Muellerrapporten is a response to Clinton’s defeat in 2016. It implies that the conclusions would be partsinlagor from a ”state within a state”, a democratic underrättelseetablissemang who will do anything to sabotage Trump.
is now in the William Barr’s hands, a 69-year-old veteran who served as justice minister once before, in the George Bush government of 1991-1993. Barr is difficult to call into policy: before he recently took office as Trumps justice he wrote a memo which some analysts interpreted as a criticism of the Rysslandsutredningens extent. At the same time, he is a good friend of Robert Mueller. Their wives have been conducting bible studies together and Mueller was a guest when the two of Barr’s daughters got married.
Attorney general William Barr. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty/AFP
Barr said on Friday that he would likely be able to tell if parts of the contents of the report already during the weekend. But the democrats in congress will not be satisfied with a summary, they want to have access to the full report and also to the substrate. The white house lawyers – who find themselves at the Mar-a-Lago in the company of the president – is expected to try to stop any such approach of the Needles to release the report in its entirety. Even if Trump himself this week said that the public could get to read it. The president has so far not commented on the fact that the report is complete and does not contain any new criminal charges. But when he does, it teaches pitch to be triumphant.
in lördagsupplagan expresses the New York Times a certain appreciation for Trump: the president has certainly hurt americans faith in the rule of law by portraying Rysslandsutredningen as a ”witch-hunt”. He has done it as often as he can. But Trump ousted never Robert Mueller. It is evidenced in a letter from attorney general Barr to congress to Robert Mueller got to interview the people he wanted to, and request the documents that he wanted to have access to.
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy minister of justice, who was responsible for Mueller, have skilfully protected Rysslandsutredningen from the president’s impulses. Rosenstein is likely to have a prominent place in the history of Rysslandsutredningen.
One of mueller’s tasks has been to investigate whether Trump attempted to obstruct or stop the investigation of ryskamerikansk collusion. For some analysts, it is already obvious that Trump tried to do this – by to dismiss former FBI head James Comey, and by the examination of witnesses, as in the past the lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, for a traitor on Twitter.
defines an obstruction of justice” in relation to the Trump – but the democrats in congress will be likely to recall Trumps the recurrent attacks on the judiciary, especially if the report would not reveal any new example. Democrats in congress hold conference call at 20 o’clock on Saturday night, Swedish time, when they are expected to coordinate their political messages.
In anticipation of more information from William Barr can you recall the most fundamental Robert Mueller have already been revealed through their prosecution: around presidential candidate Donald Trump, there were six key people who were prepared to protect his boss by lying to the FBI, congress and the american public.
the Prosecution gives a picture of the lojalitetskultur around Trump that James Comey describes in his memoirs: a maffiavärld where truth is subordinated to the employees ‘ blind loyalty to the boss. Even if Rysslandsrapporten is finished, the actual conduct of the inquiry gave rise to other criminal investigations, including by the prosecutor’s office in New York city. Person Donald Trump is likely to be the subject of judicial inquiries during the rest of his life.
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