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Delivered May 29, 2019 - the only public statement Mueller made about the investigation. He announced he was closing the office and resigning, and said the report itself would be his testimony.
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"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." "The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing."
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Two sentences, ten minutes, and the clearest statement of the constitutional argument in the entire case. The second sentence is the civics lesson: the Framers put the judgment of a president somewhere, and that somewhere was not a courtroom.
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