Trump's allies are assailing the Mueller report even as they defend its conclusions
Conway also took issue with many of Trump’s critics, as well as media reports, that have focused on the report’s explicitly noting that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
“The job of a prosecutor is to gather evidence and decide whether to indict or to decline to indict,” she told Raddatz. “They declined to indict. The president is not going to jail, he’s staying in the White House for five and a half more years. Why? Because they found no crime, no conspiracy. That was the central premise.”
On Sunday, Giuliani and Conway appeared to have settled on a similar line of attack going forward, questioning the credibility of those who played a key role in Mueller’s crafting of the obstruction portion. Trump previewed that argument on Friday, calling some of what his aides told Mueller “total bullshit.”
McGahn declined to fire Mueller, instead threatening to resign rather than do so, putting him in the company of numerous other presidential aides who shut down Trump’s attempts to thwart the investigation.
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