By de facto Special Counsel John Durham, who is investigating the Trump frame-up conspiracy.
Of course, it is not Durham's job to exonerate anybody. That's never a prosecutor's job.
Alan Dershowitz writes:
The word of the day, following the confusing and confused testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller before two House committees Wednesday, is “exonerate” –- or more precisely, “not exonerate.”
Exoneration is not the job of our legal system. Mueller’s attempt to introduce it is an extraordinary and dangerous innovation that would endanger the presumption of innocence we all have under the law.
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Curiously, Mueller seems to equate a "non-exoneration" with an inability to decide whether Trump had committed a crime. If so, then one could logically infer that Mueller had insufficient evidence to charge, and that is what his report should have said -- sans the specious bit about exoneration.
“I want to add one correction to my testimony this morning," Mueller told the House Intelligence Committee, after testimony before the Judiciary Committee earlier Wednesday. "I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Lieu, who said and I quote, ‘You didn’t charge the president because of the OLC opinion.’ That is not the correct way to say it. As we say in the report and as I said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime.” [OLC refers to the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.]
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