The same day President Trump claimed the Mueller report proved he did nothing wrong, the White House sent a letter to the attorney general complaining about it.
by President Donald Trump, but ultimately declined to make a"traditional prosecutorial judgment" on the matter.
It's also against Justice Department policy to indict a sitting president, which was part of the special counsel's reasoning behind"What prosecutors are supposed to do is complete an investigation and then either ask the grand jury to return an indictment or decline to charge the case," Flood wrote."Prosecutors simply are not in the business of establishing innocence, any more than they are in the business of 'exonerating' investigated persons.
"The [special counsel's] inverted-proof standard & 'exoneration' statements can be understood only as political statements, issuing from persons who in our system of government are rightly expected never to be political in the performance of their duties," Flood said. Flood said the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers means Justice Department officials"should not be in the business of creating 'road maps' for the purpose of transmitting them" to congressional committees.
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