"The President was not excused" | The prosecutor who …

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who investigated the links between Donald Trump's campaign and the Russian government, told the US Congress that it was still possible for the current president to be tried for obstruction of justice after left office. Mueller said his investigation confirmed that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election campaign with the intention of strengthening Donald Trump and harming Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

"The president has not been excused for the acts he allegedly committed," Mueller said Wednesday during his testimony before various congressional committees. During the meeting, the prosecutor was questioned about the results of his investigation.

There, Mueller said the president and his advisers were not being prosecuted for cooperating with Russia. Due to the investigation, there were not enough elements for conspiracy charges to be withheld. "We found insufficient evidence of the guilt of the president," said the prosecutor.

"Based on the policy of the Ministry of Justice and the principles of impartiality, we decided not to determine whether the president had committed a crime." It was our decision at that time and it was Is still our decision today, "he said at the beginning of the hearing.

In response to Republican Louie Gohmert's questions, Mueller said Trump had not interviewed him to become an FBI director. However, he confirmed he met Trump one day before being appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the "Russian plot".

Gohmert, representative of Texas' first congressional district, took advantage of his presentation to take on Mueller and ask him about his relationship with the former FBI director between 2013 and 2017, James Comey, who was fired by Trump after refusing to close the investigation.

Comey and Mueller worked together during the presidency of George W. Bush, when the first was the US Attorney General and the second headed the FBI. Under pressure from Gohmert, Mueller admitted that he and Comey were friends, but said it did not affect the objectivity of his investigation.

For his part, Democrat Mike Quigley asked Mueller about the comment that Trump had made during the 2016 election, when he said he "liked" the WikiLeaks leak site and urged the platform to publish information likely to harm Clinton, his rival. In elections

Mueller said that these statements were at least problematic, and that they suggested "what should be considered illegal behavior". According to the count of the NBC network, the current president mentioned 145 times WikiLeaks during his last month of campaign.

Donald Trump, faithful to his style, started the day by launching a series of messages via Twitter, mainly for Mueller. His first complaint was based on the fact that during the hearings, the prosecutor would have Aaron Zebley, one of his closest advisers, who was his chief of staff while he was director of the FBI. Zebley has been with Mueller since May 2017, when he opened his investigation into Trump's links with Russia.

The counselor's presence "was not specifically accepted and I would never have agreed," Trump continued. The president said that Zebley was part of a move against him, although the lawyer has not publicly expressed his political sympathies.

"So, the Democrats and others can illegally invent a crime, try to attribute it to a very innocent president, and when he fights an illegal and treacherous attack on our country, does he call it the naming of obstruction? "said Trump in another message. "That's wrong! Why did not Robert Mueller investigate the investigators?" Asked the president.

Mueller, director of the FBI between 2001 and 2013, testified today for the first time before a congressional committee. For almost two years of his investigation, Mueller remained silent and only appeared once in front of the press to read a statement.

The investigation into the so-called Russian plot began in July 2016 on the premises of the FBI, but nearly a year later, it was badigned to the special prosecutor. On that day, on more than one occasion, Mueller asked members of Congress to rephrase the questions. To others, he sent them directly to his 448-page report published three months ago.

The hearings before the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees of the House of Representatives have generated a great deal of interest in the United States with the live broadcast of its major television networks. While Republican congressmen seized the opportunity to try to stump Mueller with their questions, Democrats, the majority in this room, hoped to get information from the prosecutor that could allow Trump's political trial.