USA Today (May 8)
“This week about 800 former federal prosecutors (so far) have signed a letter objecting to Attorney General William Barr’s declaration that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report did not support charges that President Donald Trump obstructed justice.” In their view, the President’s conduct “would, in the case of any other person … result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.”
Tags: Attorney General, Barr, Conduct, Federal prosecutors, Felony charges, Mueller, Obstruction of justice, Special counsel, Trump
Washington Post (April 18)
“The report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is not what the American public had been led to expect.” As a next step, “the House Judiciary Committee must hear directly from Mr. Mueller.” They also need access to the complete, unredacted report. Ultimately, lawmakers will “face a difficult balancing act between the many valid reasons to regard impeachment as a last resort, and their responsibility to ensure that no one is above the law.”
Tags: Access, Impeachment, Last resort, Lawmakers, Mueller, Responsibility, Special counsel, Unredacted report
Time (April 8)
“The end of the special counsel’s probe gives Donald Trump one of the biggest wins of his presidency…. A special-counsel investigation of this ilk might have proven fatal to Trump’s predecessors, yet the President survived it.” Still, “Mueller’s verdict was not nearly as definitive as the President and his allies would claim. He did not clear Trump of obstruction.”
Tags: Investigation, Mueller, Obstruction, Probe, Special counsel, Trump, Verdict
Bloomberg (March 3)
The submission of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “long-awaited final report…will be only the start of an explosive chain of events. There will be a struggle in Congress, on cable TV and social media and probably in the courts over how much must be disclosed. There also will be an epic political fight over whether the findings implicate President Donald Trump in wrongdoing that may even merit his impeachment.”
Tags: Congress, Courts, Epic, Explosive, Fight, Impeachment, Mueller, Report, Struggle, Trump, Wrongdoing
Chicago Tribune (November 8)
“If Trump or his administration move to impede or end Mueller’s work, the president will do so at his own peril. Many in the country—us included—would see that as an attack on the rule of law and a blatant effort to subvert justice.”
Tags: Administration, Blatant, Impede, Justice, Mueller, Peril. Attack, Rule of law, Trump
Wall Street Journal (August 2)
“No one knows if Donald Trump is serious or trolling when he tweets,” but the “damage from firing Mr. Mueller is so predictable that’s it hard to believe even Mr. Trump would tempt such a fate.”
The Economist (February 24)
“It is futile to speculate how much Russia’s efforts succeeded in altering the outcomes of votes and poisoning politics. The answer is unknowable. But the conspiracies are wrong in themselves and their extent raises worries about the vulnerabilities of Western democracies. If the West is going to protect itself against Russia and other attackers, it needs to treat Mr Mueller’s indictments as a rallying cry.”
Tags: Attackers, Conspiracies, Democracies, Futile, Mueller, Politics, Russia, Speculate, Votes, Vulnerabilities
Chicago Tribune (June 15)
“Donald Trump should be extremely worried about his presidency.” It’s easy to see why he “is still ruminating about firing Mueller,” the special counsel, even though that “would be politically disastrous, fueling impeachment fever…. His presidency is imperiled so long as Mueller compels witnesses to testify, accumulates written evidence and traces the myriad of ties between the Trump team and Russians.”
Tags: Disastrous, Evidence, Impeachment, Imperiled, Mueller, Russia, Special counsel, Testify, Trump, U.S., Witnesses, Worried
