JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a rare and remarkable public statement Wednesday [5-29-19] his investigation could not clear President Donald Trump and that charging the President was not an option his office could consider. In Mueller’s first public comments on the investigation since he was appointed special counsel two years ago, he emphasized that Justice Department guidelines did not allow him to charge a sitting President, and as a result, his office did not determine whether Trump had committed obstruction of justice…As he announced he was closing the special counsel’s office and resigning from the Justice Department, Mueller delivered a road map of how the investigation played out and the possible role that Congress could play in holding Trump accountable. Mueller highlighted how the ‘Constitution requires a process other than’ the criminal justice system to hold officeholders accountable, a clear signal that his obstruction investigation into Trump could be picked up by Congress.”
–Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz and Laura Jarrett, “Mueller: ‘If we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 29, 2019 9:12 pm