Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller announced his resignation Wednesday (May 29th). He, who has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election for almost two years, spoke for the first time in public since reporting on the case and announced his departure.
The former FBI chief executive also said the incumbent president's indictment was "not a legal option".
He, however, reiterated one of the conclusions of his report that he could not exonerate the US president of suspicions of obstruction of justice. "If we had the conviction that the president had clearly not committed a crime, we would have said," he said.
No testimony in Congress
Robert Mueller also said he did not consider it "appropriate" to testify in Congress, despite Democrats' wish to hear him on his inquiry.
True to his usual reservations, the former head of the Federal Police (FBI) had not spoken out publicly since he took the lead in this investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. delivered the written conclusions at the end of March.
In his investigation report, a document of more than 400 pages written after 22 months of investigations, Robert Mueller has exonerated Donald Trump suspicions of collusion with Moscow during this campaign.
With AFP and Reuters