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Former Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is summoned to the Congress on Wednesday (July 24th) for a long-awaited hearing on the findings of the Russian investigation. The Democrats hope to snatch damning statements for Donald Trump at sixteen months of the 2020 presidential election.
It was in April. Special Prosecutor Mueller's team published a 450-page report on Russia's suspicions of interference in the 2016 presidential election. It described Russia's efforts to help the Republican candidate, as well as contacts between Russians. and Donald Trump's entourage, while concluding that he has not found " evidence " of an agreement between the two parties. This Wednesday, June 24, Robert Mueller is called to testify before the Committees of Legal Affairs and Intelligence of the House of Commons.
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Robert Mueller said in a press conference: he will say nothing more in Congress. Nothing more than what is already in his report. His supervisory minister, who was acquired by President Trump, also warned him by mail: his testimony should be limited to what was written, without the redacted passages of confidential information.
Robert Mueller is a regular at the exercise: he has already been heard 88 times by Congress when he was head of the FBI. He is known for his discretion and laconic responses.
For Donald Trump it's a " waste of time "
An audition that Donald Trump hastened to downplay. The president has already said he will not be in front of his television. " A waste of time, " he says, because as he likes to pound on Twitter, there has never been any collusion or obstruction of justice, nothing but a witch hunt orchestrated by the opposition . " I will not look at Mueller, " said the US president. On his Twitter account, he believes that the Mueller report is " bad for Congressional Democrats ".
Highly conflicted Robert Mueller should not be given another cock at the apple. In the end it will be bad for him and the phony Democrats in Congress who have done nothing but waste time on this ridiculous Witch Hunt. Result of the Mueller Report, NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION! ...
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2019Democrats here see the opportunity to put the Russian case back on the scene. They will try to extract from the former special prosecutor details damaging to the president. But mostly to reach the Americans. These televised auditions are usually very popular in the United States. And failing to read the long and arid investigation report, some Americans should take this Wednesday for the first time.
For Corentin Sellin, an associate professor of history and a specialist in the United States, one should not expect much from this audition.
This parliamentary hearing comes at the request of the Democratic majority who hears, since the publication of the report prove that the report would be disastrous for the president. Except that this political will of the Democrats runs up against the somewhat judicial rigor of the prosecutor Mueller that obviously does not want to be instrumentalized in a political struggle and who wants to stick strictly to the legal conclusions of his report. He does not want to enter the political arena. It is still very doubtful that the Democrats can get what they come for.
Corentin Sellin: "It is very doubtful that Democrats can get what they come for" 24/07/2019 - by Marie Normand
For Corentin Sellin, year after year, American presidents have become almost untouchable. " It is now almost impossible, as it is in many democracies, in France for example, to prosecute a president in office, in court. The path of "impeachment", which is a political trial, is far too cumbersome and inconvenient, "he explains. Without constitutional immunity, the President enjoys regulatory immunity from the Department of Justice which, according to the Associate Professor of History, makes it impossible to prosecute during the exercise of his mandate.