Analysis: In his testimony Wednesday, AG Barr stopped far short of saying there was no evidence that President Trump obstructed Special Counsel Mueller's investigation.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr stopped far short on Wednesday of saying there was no evidence that President Donald Trump obstructed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
"We felt with that episode the government would not be able to establish obstruction," Barr said, under questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the panel's top Democrat. And, he added,"there is evidence that the president truly felt that the Times article was inaccurate and he wanted McGahn to correct it."
"The fact that this president has the power to stop an investigation lawfully makes him a unicorn constitutionally for purposes of obstruction of justice," Wehle said in a telephone interview."That is exactly what Barr is trying to say.""We believe it would be impossible for the government to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the president understood that he was instructing McGahn to say something false because it wasn't necessarily false," he said.
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