Mueller Says Charging Trump with Crime “Not an Option,” Won’t Testify Before Congress

In his first public appearance since taking charge of the hoax Russia investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said charging President Trump was “not an option” due to a Department of Justice policy which states a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while in office.

“If we had confidence that the president clearly had not committed a crime, we would have said so,” he said. “We did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”

“The special counsel’s office is part of the Department of Justice and by regulation it was bound by that department policy. Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider,” he continued.

Watch full statement: Robert Mueller says he "did not make a determination as to whether" President Trump "did commit a crime" as he closes down the special counsel's office and departs the Justice Department. https://t.co/HEo1vzAgOv pic.twitter.com/jV28xImqvr

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Mueller also said he would not testify before Congress because any testimony he gives “would not go beyond [the] report” and that he would “not provide information “beyond that which is already public in any appearance before...

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