Editorial: Wednesday's hearing was a powerful corrective to President Trump’s repeated assertions that the investigation was a “partisan witch hunt.” (via latimesopinion)
about Russian interference in the 2016 election and President Trump’s attempts to undermine the special counsel’s investigation.
That didn’t make it boring, however. It was hard not to be shocked again by the damning and sordid findings from his dense, two-volume report. Anyone tuning in should have been appalled anew by the dramatic lengths the president went to stop the probe into possible obstruction of justice, as well as the efforts that his campaign staff took to capitalize on Russian meddling.
For a brief moment during Mueller’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee, it seemed that he had decided to resolve the ambiguity. When Rep. Ted Lieu asked him if the opinion by the department’s Office of Legal Counsel that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted was the reason he hadn’t indicted Trump , Mueller answered: “That is correct.”
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