{"id":1622841,"date":"2022-08-26T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622841"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:23:14","slug":"department-of-justice-releases-robert-mueller-era-memo-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/department-of-justice-releases-robert-mueller-era-memo-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Justice Releases Robert Mueller-Era Memo on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdepartment-of-justice-releases-robert-mueller-era-memo-on-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Justice Department on Wednesday released a 2019 memo that revealed why\u00a0former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> should not be prosecuted for obstruction of justice in connection to then-special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-robert-mueller\">Robert Mueller<\/a>\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Dated March 24, 2019, the memo was written by\u00a0Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O\u2019Callaghan, who claimed that none of Trump\u2019s actions documented in Mueller\u2019s report should be viewed as obstruction of justice. Those actions include firing former FBI Director James Comey and telling a top White House lawyer to fire Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conclude that the evidence described in Volume II of the Report is not, in our judgment, sufficient to support a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the President violated the obstruction-of-justice statutes,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22187619-20190324_memo\">the unredacted documen<\/a>t, released to several major news outlets and posted online. \u201cIn addition, we believe that certain of the conduct examined by the Special Counsel could not, as a matter of law, support an obstruction charge under the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed the memo\u2019s authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, based in Washington, D.C., filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit three years ago to make the document public.<\/p>\n<p> Appeals Court Ruling <\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court rejected Justice Department arguments and ruled on Friday the memo must be released to the public.\u00a0A highly redacted variant of the memo was released in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be rare for federal prosecutors to bring an obstruction prosecution that did not itself arise out of a proceeding related to a separate crime,\u201d the two officials also wrote in the memo.<\/p>\n<p>The memo also asserts there was considerable evidence that Trump acted in his official capacity, including pushing to get Mueller fired, \u201cbecause he believed the investigation was politically motivated and undermined his administration\u2019s efforts to govern\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department on Wednesday released a 2019 memo that revealed why\u00a0former President Donald Trump should not be prosecuted for obstruction of justice in connection to then-special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation. Dated March 24, 2019, the memo was written by\u00a0Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O\u2019Callaghan, who claimed that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}