"The memo presents a breathtakingly generous view of the law and facts for Donald Trump," government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said in a statement
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday released a confidential 2019 memo that advised then-Attorney General William Barr not to pursue criminal charges against then-President Donald Trump for obstructing the special counsel investigation of Russian election meddling. The memo by Steven Engel, then head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and Edward O'Callaghan, another…
On Wednesday, the Biden administration published a Trump-era memorandum that provides the most extensive look yet at the Justice Department's legal rationale for declaring that President Donald Trump could not be prosecuted with obstruction of justice for his efforts to obstruct the Russia probe.