Robert Mueller, who completed his job as a special adviser, resigned from the Justice Department today and returned to private life.
But before leaving the public stage, Mueller took a few minutes to highlight some of the points he seemed eager to let the public know. But he didn’t.
In order for the public to understand better, Miller carefully selected some key areas of interest.
This made his choice more important.
He first highlighted the point that Donald Trump has repeatedly denied.
He added that obstruction of justice is a serious matter.
Mueller spoke shortly after an investigation into obstruction of justice, stressing that he and his team did not exempt the president from responsibility.
He then made it very clear that Trump was not charged, not because he was innocent, but because the office of the special prosecutor lacked the legal power to sue him.
Not long after, according to the Ministry of Justice, he added, "[T]
The Constitution requires procedures outside the criminal justice system to formally accuse the current president of misconduct.
"Mueller does seem to be saying that if Trump is not a sitting president, he may be charged-perhaps.
None of these individual assertions are new if you have read Miller's report-because they are not.
Instead, they are familiar because we have read them in the edited file.
But that doesn't mean they don't matter.
For example, there is a qualitative difference between reading the findings on the page and listening to a special lawyer publicly announcing them for the US public.
More importantly, however, Miller elaborated the evidence in a way that told us exactly what he thought was important.
In this case, Mueller considers it important that Russia attacks our elections;
Obstruction of Justice is a serious offence;
Trump has not been cleared;
Trump was not prosecuted because he could not be prosecuted during his tenure.
As for the road ahead, Miller's possible congressional testimony has drawn considerable interest in recent weeks, but he added this morning that he did not want or expect this to happen: although the subtext of his speech is not entirely subtle, it remains to be seen whether lawmakers think it is satisfactory: Miller is done and he wants Congress to start here.