President Donald Trump touted his “total exoneration” on Sunday following the release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the special counsel’s report. But Trump was not exonerated by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report — a fact that Barr made plain in his summary to Congress. Mueller’s team had did not find evidence to prove criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Barr wrote. It’s important to note that Mueller did not ― beyond not declaring Trump’s innocence ― make any conclusions in his report on whether or not the president committed obstruction of justice. It was Barr, who Trump appointed to the post of attorney general in December, and Rosenstein who’ve pronounced the president’s guiltlessness.

Source: Huffington Post March 25, 2019 07:30 UTC