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WHAT MUELLER FOUND
BY AMY DAVIDSON SORKIN
 
“This is terrible,” President Donald Trump said, at a meeting in the Oval Office on May 17, 2017, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions told him of the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel. Mueller’s mandate was to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, the Trump campaign’s possible coördination with those efforts, and related matters. According to notes taken by Jody Hunt, Sessions’s chief of staff, who was present, Trump said, “This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.” He then turned his wrath on the Attorney General, who had recused himself from the investigation, even though his job, Trump said angrily, was to protect him: “How could you let this happen, Jeff?”
The description of that confrontation, in Mueller’s four-hundred-and-forty-eight-page report, which was released, with redactions, on Thursday, does not include Trump’s pointing to a particular secret or nest of illegality that he feared Mueller would discover. The special counsel, whose team of lawyers and F.B.I. agents interviewed some five hundred witnesses, was not able to establish that there was any coördination or conspiracy between the campaign and the Russians. (He has, however, issued indictments of more than two dozen Russian nationals.) Instead, the looming disaster that Trump foresaw was as indiscriminate as his rage (“Everyone tells me if you get one of these independent counsels it ruins your Presidency. It takes years and years and I won’t be able to do anything”) and as boundless as his self-pity (“This is the worst thing that ever happened to me”). His outburst demonstrates what the Mueller report shows to be his guiding presumption: that being President means that you are protected from legal scrutiny. The May 17th meeting is presented as evidence under the rubric of “The President’s Efforts to Remove the Special Counsel,” one in a series of acts that the report defines as a potential obstruction of justice.
Mueller did not make a “traditional prosecutorial” judgment on whether that evidence amounted to crimes that should be further pursued. Attorney General William Barr, who succeeded Sessions, said, in a press conference just before the report’s release, that constitutional questions about whether a sitting President could be charged with a crime had not been a determining factor for Mueller. That assertion seems ............

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