Following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s key findings, President Donald Trump and personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on March 24 suggested that the investigators should be investigated.
Trump described the investigation as an “illegal takedown” of a sitting president, adding that it has “failed.” Mueller’s report showed there no evidence of collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, according to a letter from Attorney General William Barr.
“Hopefully somebody is going to look at the other side,” he told reporters.
“He was being investigated for a crime that never happened,” Giuliani said. “There was never any collusion.”
The former Republican mayor of New York City continued: “There has to be a full and complete investigation, with at least as much enthusiasm as this one, to figure out where did this charge emanate, who started it, who paid for it.”
In the interview, he turned his crosshairs on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), asking where the evidence of collusion is.
“Where is Schiff’s evidence?” Giuliani asked. “Where is it? In his head?”
“I’ve said this all along: It was a mistake to rely on written responses by the president,” he said.
“There’s a difference between compelling evidence of collusion and whether the special counsel concludes that he can prove beyond a reasonable doubt the criminal charge of conspiracy,” Schiff said hours before a summary of the report was released to the public. “I leave that decision to Bob Mueller, and I have full confidence in him.”
Report Concluded
Attorney General Barr issued a summary of Mueller’s findings to Congressional leaders on March 24, concluding that the “investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided Mueller’s evidence didn’t establish that President Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice, according to the letter.
“The Special Counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion—one way or the other—as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction ... the Special Counsel’s report states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,’” Barr’s letter said.
Following Barr’s letter of the findings, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed Barr isn’t “a neutral observer,” reiterating their calls for the full, un-redacted release of Mueller’s report.
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