While special counsel Robert Mueller did not conclude 'one way or the other' if Trump obstructed justice, the attorney general determined there was insufficient evidence to charge the president with a criminal offense.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's detailed report on his nearly two-year probe into Russia election interference shows that while his office struggled to make a decision on whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, it is in no way exonerating his behavior.
Specifically, Mueller and his team tried to determine the president's intent involving his"public attacks on the investigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation." Although Mueller did not reach a conclusion “one way or the other” on whether Trump obstructed justice, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that there was insufficient evidence to prove the president committed a criminal offense.
In a press conference on Thursday morning just hours before the report’s release, Barr said that he hoped that Mueller’s intent wasn’t to leave the obstruction issue up to Congress.
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