Sally Yates: Trump Would Have Been Indicted If He Wasn't President, Based On 'Devastating' Mueller Report
One of the difficulties in the Sunday news bookings is back to that awful false balance notion that has plagued the media for years is that we knew that the weekend after the release of the redacted Mueller report would be packed with spinners and politicos throwing out all sorts of garbage.
That's why it's nice to have an actual expert opining on the legal ramifications. It's never going to sway his base, nor curtail the gish-galloping of Kellyanne Conway or Lindsey Graham, but the reality is fairly plain: Robert Mueller felt constrained from pursuing criminal charges against Donald Trump by DOJ guidelines, but if he could, he would have.
In fact, as former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told Meet the Press guest host Andrea Mitchell, the only thing that is keeping Donald Trump from being anything more than an unindicted co-conspirator (which he absolutely is) is the office in which he occupies. Yates told Mitchell that she's successfully prosecuted obstruction cases with much less evidence.