together, all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom thought it would be a good idea to elect guys that crime-y to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and agnew, the justice department in the early 70s had bumbled their way into putting down on paper that it was the policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the unite and that s like an important landmark moment fort nixon years, it s never a good sign that your presidency is so crime-y and forces a look at the rules whether you can a be president from in a prison cell. even i though that landmark was reached in theen nixon years, a they clarified mess on paper because of m nixon and agnew, t rule, the nuts and bolts of it never got tested at that time, never got tested by the events that surrounded the eventual downfall of nixon and agney, nixon resigned as president before beinged forced out and never cri
that says no charges can be brought against a president. but regardless of that, trump shouldn t face any charges because my william barr review of the evidence in this report indicates thatre trump committe no crimes. barr tells the congress, tells the public, i can tell, i checked it out, i looked at the evidence, i say as attorney general and theev justice department backs me up on, this this the professional view of the u.s. justice department, trump did no crimes. and that s how the mueller report thing ended, right? it s over. thet? justice department lookedt all of the evidence that mueller turned up and the justice department said in its professional estimation trump should not beof charged. and barr made it explicit. even if there wasn t this rule, because you can t charge a sitting president, regardless of that, just based on the evidence, trump still wouldn t face charges for anything. that s how bill barr broke the neck of the mueller investigation in 2019. that s why even
have the passage about the president saying russia, if you re listening, and the mueller report basically lets him off the hook in that scene at the end of those paragraphs. and donald trump, he didn t read it of course, but he was briefed on it. he said, hey, you got away with the russia are you listening, the mueller report thing. they were afraid to touch you on that. as soon as he learned that, i think that s what gave him his inspiration for going out there today and doing it again because what the mueller report said was there was something in that public moment of, russia are you listening, that indicated that donald trump didn t really know what he was doing. in other words, there was something that smells like innocence in donald trump s mind in that passage of the mueller report. yeah. i think you re right, lawrence. i think that he thinks that he can somehow get away with being innocent or crazy. i don t know what his defense will be ultimately. and unfortunately a lot of