Mueller: Charging president with a crime was 'not an option we could consider'

Posted on AllSides May 29th, 2019
From The Center

Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday that charging President Trump with a crime "was not an option we could consider" due to Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations.

Mueller said that his office interpreted current DOJ guidance that states a sitting president cannot be indicted as meaning his team could not bring a charge against Trump as they investigated him for obstruction of justice.

The special counsel said that the Constitution requires a "process other than the criminal justice system" for taking disciplinary action against a sitting president, but did not...

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