William Barr admits Justice Department 'didn't agree' with Mueller and applied the 'right law'

Attorney General William Barr disagreed with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s lack of a definitive conclusion on whether President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice regarding matters related to the Russia probe.

Those statements seemed to contradict his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee May 1 about his rollout of the Mueller report, in which he told lawmakers in his prepared remarks that “we accepted the special counsel’s legal framework for purposes of our analysis and evaluated the evidence as presented by the special counsel in reaching our conclusion.

Barr’s remarks to CBS, where he detailed his disagreement with Mueller’s legal analysis, came the day after the former special counsel took the extraordinary step of making a public, on-camera statement at the Justice Department—the first of its kind since Mueller took lead of the probe in 2017.

“He could've reached a conclusion,” Barr said. “The [Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel] opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office, but he could've reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. But he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained, and I am not going to, you know, argue about those reasons.”

“Congress is a separate branch of government and they can—they have processes, we have our processes,” he elaborated. “Ours are related to the criminal justice process we are not an extension of Congress's investigative powers.” "It's part of the craziness of the modern day that if a president uses a word, then all of a sudden it becomes off bounds," he said."It's a perfectly good English word. I will continue to use it."

This has become more complex than it should ever be. Does anyone recall what happened prior to realDonaldTrump actually announcement he's going to help the USA lift up from the devastation? It appears the peoples' government want to burn this man. They all won't agree to talk.

The “justice department didn’t agree”? You really want to go with that?

Yeah, 'right law' that's rich

I call that BS. Barr blatantly lied to Congress and the American people.

The fixer...

Not the Justice Department, more specifically, he did not agree because he was hired to disagree with any findings that showed the President in a criminal light!

Not the right law. Stooge law. Lackey law. Vichy law.

🤣😆😅 The Trump law, you mean, you disgusting, corrupt toadie. WhiteHouse TheJusticeDept ImpeachBarr ImpeachDonaldTrump FuckTrump GOPGutlessCowardsandCrooks SenateGOP WilliamBarr AP CNN seanhannity TuckerCarlson

Barr has proven is worth to America- Zip! He's tRump's consigliere.

So Barr saved the president’s ass? I am shocked.

“The right law” this guy should’t Be AG. His right law is what is most convenient for his client.. Trump

He's said this openly since the day he released the summary.

So he lied. You know, you can call it that.

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