44 Facts About Mueller report

The report was submitted to Attorney General William Barr on March 22,2019, and a redacted version of the 448-page report was publicly released by the Department of Justice on April 18,2019.

Mueller report later stated that his investigation's conclusion on Russian interference "deserves the attention of every American".

In July 2019, Mueller report testified to Congress that a president could be charged with crimes including obstruction of justice after the president left office.

The judge said Barr's "misleading" statements about the Mueller report's findings led him to suspect that Barr had tried to establish a "one-sided narrative" favorable to Trump.

Rosenstein's authority to appoint Mueller report arose due to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' March 2017 recusal of himself from investigations into the Trump campaign.

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Mueller report found that the Russian government "interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion" and "violated US criminal law".

The Mueller report relayed two methods by which Russia attempted to influence the election.

When Mueller report asks whether they constituted some sort of third avenue for Russian interference, he's really asking, in the prosecutorial language available to him, what to make of them.

George Croner of the Foreign Policy Research Institute has expressed his concerns with what he describes as a "curiously flaccid" approach taken by Mueller report in dealing with what the public would normally interpret as "coordination".

The Mueller report continues: "Lewandowski recalled that the President told him that if Sessions did not meet with him, Lewandowski should tell Sessions he was fired".

Dearborn was uncomfortable with the task and chose not to not pass the message, although the Mueller report quotes Dearborn as telling Lewandowski that he had "handled the situation".

Mueller report thought that the Barr letter "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the findings of the special counsel investigation that he led.

The Mueller report is 448 pages long across two volumes and four appendices.

CNN wrote that while Barr in his letter took it upon himself to deliver a ruling on whether Trump had committed obstruction, the redacted report indicates that Mueller intended that decision to be made by Congress, not Barr.

The Washington Post described that "the report does not say Mueller intended to leave obstruction-related decisions to Barr", and instead "uses suggestive language about Congress's role", that Congress can subject President Trump to obstruction laws, and made a reference to not wanting to preempt impeachment.

Attributes of the Mueller report's text, and its redactions in particular, received significant news coverage and was a noted talking point.

The Washington Post stated that the Mueller report "offered a rich portrait of Trump's efforts as president to undermine the investigation and mislead the public".

Vox reported that the Mueller report showed Sanders and her predecessor, Sean Spicer, made false statements about the circumstances surrounding the firings of Comey and Michael Flynn.

Mueller report showed that despite assertions by Hope Hicks and Jason Miller in September 2016 that Carter Page never had any involvement with the campaign, Page actually produced work for the campaign, traveled with Trump to a campaign speech and "Chief policy adviser Sam Clovis expressed appreciation for Page's work and praised his work to other Campaign officials".

Prince testified to the House Intelligence Committee that "I didn't fly there to meet any Russian guy", although the Mueller Report found that he and Nader made significant preparations to meet Dmitriev.

The Mueller report stated that Trump asserted more than thirty times that he could not remember information that had been asked, and that other answers were "incomplete or imprecise".

The Mueller report found that Cohen had discussed particulars of the project with Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

Mueller report did not investigate or conclude Cohen had been in Prague, as had been alleged in the Steele dossier and reported by the McClatchy Company.

Mueller report reported that Donald Trump's campaign staff, administration officials, and family members, his Republican backers, and his associates lied or made false assertions, whether intentional or unintentional, to the public, Congress, and authorities.

Nevertheless, Mueller report was NOT fired and was respectfully allowed to finish his work on what I, and many others, say was an illegal investigation, headed by a Trump hater who was highly conflicted, and a group of 18 VERY ANGRY Democrats.

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Wall Street Journal reported on May 10,2019, that within a day of the release of the Mueller report, Trump sought to have McGahn declare that he didn't think the president's directive to have Mueller fired constituted obstruction of justice, but McGahn refused.

One request was sent to McGahn's lawyer, William A Burck, before the report was made public but after Trump's lawyers received a copy.

Trump's lawyers noticed that Mueller report left out McGahn's belief that Trump never obstructed justice.

Giuliani told The Daily Beast in an interview that the contents were: the legitimacy of the Special Counsel investigation due to alleged conflict of interests surrounding Mueller report, and alleged coordination between the Trump Campaign and Russia including obstruction of justice.

Mueller report said that, according to the Constitution, any potential wrongdoing by a president must be addressed by a "process other than the criminal justice system".

Mueller report testified before Congress on July 24,2019, answering questions asked by Representatives.

However, later that day, Mueller report corrected his comments, stating that his team did not determine whether Trump committed a crime.

Additionally, Mueller report answered Republican Ken Buck that a president could be charged with obstruction of justice after the president left office.

Mueller report testified that Trump's written responses to questions from investigators were "generally" untruthful and incomplete.

Mueller report declined to address the matter as the origin of the investigation was then the subject of a DOJ inquiry.

Massachusetts Senator and former 2020 United States presidential election candidate Elizabeth Warren, citing the "severity" of the "misconduct" detailed in the Mueller report, called for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump, the first 2020 election candidate to do so post-Mueller report.

However, the House Intelligence Committee, then controlled by Republicans, released in 2017 a Mueller report that stated that the Russia investigation had not started from information in the Steele dossier, but from information that the FBI received on George Papadopoulos.

Mueller report did not ask Barr to make the decision, and Barr later said that he had not talked directly to Mueller report about making that decision.

Mueller report continues: "By the preponderance of evidence standard, the report contains ample evidence to establish conspiracy and coordination with the Russian government, sometimes through intermediaries, other times through a Russian spy".

The Mueller report explained that the ability to conclude using the criminal proof beyond a reasonable doubt standard was "materially impaired" by lies by individuals associated with the Trump campaign and deletion of emails, among other factors.

On June 25,2019, House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff, and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler, both publicly announced that Mueller report agreed to publicly testify before House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17.

On July 24,2019, Mueller report testified before the House Intelligence Committee after being subpoenaed.

Walton questioned if the Mueller report's redactions were then in fact "self-serving" to avoid conflict with Barr's statements, and if the Justice Department used "post-hoc rationalizations" to defend Barr.

On June 19,2020, in response to the lawsuit, the Department of Justice released a less-redacted public version of the Mueller report, revealing new information about Roger Stone and WikiLeaks.