Mueller rejected the Trump team's argument that a president cannot possibly illegally obstruct a DOJ investigation: "Article II of the Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize the President from potential liability for the conduct that we investigated."
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In Trump's submission, he said his request for Russia to obtain Clinton emails was "in jest and sarcastically, as was apparent to any objective observer"...yet Mueller reports that Trump repeatedly asked people affiliated with his own campaign to find the emails, and they tried.pic.twitter.com/e1bz9p9252
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Mueller says Kushner texted "waste of time" during the Trump Tower meeting, then asked his assistants to call him as an excuse to leave; Don Jr. said nothing could be done about the Magnitsky Act while Trump was a mere candidate but that they could revisit the issue if Trump won.pic.twitter.com/Pxqjs3Bo44
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Mueller says the sponsor of the platform resolution re Russia said Trump advisor Gordon told her he was on the phone with Trump at the time Gordon requested that the resolution be weakened -- but the investigation "did not establish" that Gordon spoke to or was directed by Trump.pic.twitter.com/nC8winQSeR
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Mueller says Manafort had Gates provide internal campaign polling to Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime employee the FBI says has ties to Russian intelligence. Mueller says he "could not reliably determine Manafort's purpose" in doing so.
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Mueller also says Manafort "also twice met Kilimnik in the United States during the campaign and conveyed campaign information." The second meeting, in Aug. 2016, was to get Manafort a message from former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych about his "peace plan."pic.twitter.com/Q9Hcq6kfXV
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Mueller: Manafort said it was Viktor Yanukovych, not Oleg Deripaska, who was "the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar"...and that there was an actual big black jar of caviar. Lots of media reports assumed this was a reference to Deripaska.pic.twitter.com/7t4qFzXC3R
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Mueller: Though phone provider records show that Steve Bannon and Erik Prince "exchanged dozens" of text messages around the time of the Seychelles meeting, there were no messages available for investigators to read on their phones. Both men said they didn't know why that was.pic.twitter.com/jCVDKBkIIB
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Mueller went into detail about his reasoning for not laying charges over the Trump Tower meeting. He considered them under a law that prohibits foreign campaign contributions and forbids Americans to "solicit, accept, or receive" from them any money or "thing of value."
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Mueller explained explicitly that they were investigating whether there were violations of conspiracy law, not investigating "collusion." Barr kept using the word "collusion" anyway.pic.twitter.com/X88vxY13pT
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And yet we know that he gets angry when people write down his crimes
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