ARTICAL ON SOCIALNEWS.IT April 21, 2019
On April 18, 2019, the Mueller Report was released on the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, the complicity of The Donald's election committee and the likely attempt by the President Trump to obstruct the path of justice.
Many believed that this investigation would lead to the end of the Trump presidency but in fact the New York tycoon in response to the special prosecutor's report, Robert Mueller, posted on his Twitter page several posts in which the message recurred was: "No collusion. No obstruction"(No collusion. No obstruction).
In fact, after nearly two years of investigation and a 400-page report, Robert Mueller has apparently said that it was not possible to determine whether or not Donald Trump was aware of Russian interference at the expense of the Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 election campaign, and that it was also not possible to establish the attempt by Trump to obstruct the normal course of justice.
However, the report states that "Russia interfered in the 2016 US election in a systematic and radical manner." There have been several cyberattacks by Russian hackers against the Clinton committee in order to spread, through WikiLeaks, documents and emails of maximum confidentiality. Moreover, contacts between the Russian government and Trump's committee, the report specifies, have been there, but this is not enough to talk about collusion. The report reports that no evidence has been found that any Americans conspired with the Russian government.
Although there is no mention of the plot, the most important aspect that emerges from the report is that "several people affiliated with the Trump Committee have lied to investigators and Congress about their contacts with Russia. These lies have materially hampered the investigation." In addition, some members of Trump's staff have deleted communications with Russian government delegates, and dulcis in fundo, the then head of the committee, Paul Manafort, shared with them the strategies adopted during the campaign and the polls Interior.
Mueller's lengthy investigation, also known as Russiagate, also looked at eleven incidents in which Donald Trump would obstruct the normal path of justice. Nevertheless, insufficient evidence was gathered during the investigation to indict him. Investigators, for constitutional reasons, knew from the outset that they would hardly succeed in impeaching the president, which is why now only Congress can determine whether or not Donald Trump obstructed justice.
"If after a thorough investigation we had been aware that the president did not obstruct the course of justice in any way, we would have declared it," the report said. On the basis of the facts and interpretations of the law applicable to them, however, we are not in a position to reach that judgment. As a result, even if this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, he does not exonerate him."
This conclusion is supported by events in June 2017 and the testimony of Don McGahn (then a White House lawyer) released during the investigative phase. When Donald Trump learned of the investigation and his involvement in limiting the scope of the investigation, he instructed McGahn to call on deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, to fire Mueller for alleged conflicts of interest. Mueller's appointment was of great concern to Donald Trump, as the mogul feared that the independent prosecutor could bring an end to his presidency. However, the US president's attempt to obstruct justice has come under fire thanks to the refusal by members of his administration to carry out the orders.
Still, Trump's defense has rejected all charges both publicly and in written statements sent to Attorney General Mueller who, in order to avoid a lengthy constitutional battle and conclude the investigation in a short time, decided not to personally questioning the president despite his written responses often being "incomplete or inaccurate." In addition, according to what is reported in the document, investigators in their view had "sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and make certain assessments without the testimony of the president."
The results of the survey did not satisfy the opposition. So much so that the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, are considering calling President Trump to testify before Congress. Only this legislature, in fact, has the power to determine whether or not Donald Trump obstructed justice. In addition, Democrats are considering possible impeachment.
Although Donald Trump commented on the release of the Mueller report, saying, "It's a good day, no collusion, no obstruction," the game is not yet over. The report, in fact, as mentioned before, does not incriminate Trump but at the same time does not exonerate him, as a result there are still no necessary conditions to state, as the president did in his Tweet, that the "game is over". Maybe the games have just begun.
Rebecca Molinari contributed.
