So, Rudy Giuliani told Fox News and CNN that Robert Mueller said his office will, per Fox News, "abide by DOJ guidelines" that assert a sitting president cannot be indicted. This is not surprising; it is mainly notable if Mueller told Giuliani so.
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Here's the CNN story:https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/rudy-giuliani-robert-mueller-indictment/index.html …
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And the Fox News tweet:https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/996866827627257859 …
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The Special Counsel's Office, of course, is not going to confirm this. (I've asked.) And Giuliani has a track record here that makes it less than 100% clear what exactly Mueller said or agreed to in this situation.
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Assuming it is true (or roughly true): Based on what we know, it seems most likely to me that Mueller would tell Giuliani this as part of an effort to get Trump (and his lawyers) to agree to Trump's interview.
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The Special Counsel's Office spokesperson declined to comment.
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tl;dr: It has never seemed likely that by-the-book Mueller would seek to go outside of the historical decisions of DOJ on this question. That's the biggest reason why it's believable that SCO reached this conclusion.
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I doubt that it'd be meaningfully better for Trump to be an unindicted co-conspirator for several campaign / trump co-conspirators, if the latter were convicted.
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