After two years of silence, the now-retired special counsel Robert Mueller made his first and probably last public statement last week and made two things clear.
First, Russian intelligence “launched a concerted attack on our political system,” a fact that should concern every American.
Second, Mueller’s team did not make a determination as to whether Trump obstructed justice in his repeated efforts to impede the investigation.
“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” he said, echoing the conclusion of his report.
Justice Department policy, Mueller cited, “says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.