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I may not be a lawyer like Jim Hochberg, but his claim that “the Mueller team improperly included political considerations in its conclusions” seems erroneous (“Mueller investigation has political overtones,” Letters, Star-Advertiser, April Opens in a new tab24) Opens in a new tab. If any political considerations were included, they would be ones involving the idea that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has apparently, and properly so, punted the responsibility to Congress to decide whether probable cause exists to charge the president for an impeachable offense.
As for the claim that you can’t charge obstruction of justice if there was no underlying crime to obstruct, the Mueller report also stated only that it did not establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. It did not say definitively there was “no collusion.”
I never really felt the collusion thing would be something that would take down Teflon Donald. But I would like to see Trump follow through on his campaign promise and release his tax returns.
Paul Campbell
Waipahu
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