Democrats haven't given up on calling for the special counsel to testify before Congress, but Mueller’s desire to remain behind the scenes has put them in a complicated position as they ponder their next steps.
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller briefly broke his silence on Wednesday, but he indicated he has no desire to speak again anytime soon.
Trump allies were quick to suggest Mueller’s remarks closed the book on his probe of the president. The president’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, told Yahoo News that Mueller’s resignation “puts a period on a two-year investigation that produced no findings of collusion or obstruction against the president.”
Mueller’s conclusions about whether the president committed obstruction of justice were far less definitive. While Mueller described a slew of actions by the president that could have been considered obstruction, he ultimately left the choice about whether to charge the president with that crime up to the attorney general.
“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.” Spokespeople for the acting attorney general and the special counsel did not respond to requests for comment about the apparent discrepancy between their remarks.
Impeachment can be rapid — for example, the impeachment of President Bill Clinton that began in 1998 lasted less than two months — so Democrats have an incentive to time the proceedings to give Trump less time to recover in advance of next year’s election.
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