Your report on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Congressional testimony July 25 read as if there were still doubt that President Donald Trump is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The redacted report is available free online from several websites, and bound copies have been on sale to the public from bookstores, so any remaining doubt in this matter can only be ascribed to ignorance. Time and again, Mueller simply referred questioners back to his report, which they obviously had not read. An exchange between Mueller and Rep. Ken Buck, a Republican, summed this up well:
Buck: “Could you indict Donald Trump after he leaves office?”
Mueller: “Yes.”
Then Buck repeated the question and Mueller repeated his terse answer, though this question too is answered in the available report. The report doesn’t use this sort of language, but makes very clear that several charges of obstruction of justice against Donald Trump would all be “slam-dunks,” and details well more than 100 contacts between Trump’s campaign and administration staff and Russian operatives, not reported to the FBI, which some of those parties later lied about under oath.
Trump has recently stated that he won’t reject Russian meddling in our elections again. Mueller didn’t charge Trump with any crime in the report, he’s told Congress three times now, because that’s Congress’s job.
— Lars Opland
Wasilla
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