MUELLER REPORTEDLY WILL NOT SEEK TRUMP INDICTMENT
by Sharon Rondeau
(May 16, 2018) — In his Wednesday night opening statement, commentator Sean Hannity provided a preview of an exclusive interview Donald Trump’s newest attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, gave to FNC host Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham’s show is broadcast directly after Hannity’s at 10:00 p.m. ET weeknights.
The preview of Giuliani’s interview with Ingraham shows him telling her that Mueller should conclude his probe imminently and that fired FBI Director James Comey “engineered” its very existence.
Indeed, during sworn testimony last June 8 to a congressional committee, Comey said that he provided at least one of his memos documenting meetings he had with Trump both before and after his inauguration to his “friend,” Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman, with the purpose of Richman’s providing their content to The New York Times and spurring the hiring of a special counsel to continue the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign.
Richman has recently been reported to have been a “special government employee” of the FBI under Comey.
Mueller and Comey once each worked for the other, and on May 15, 2017, Trump interviewed Mueller to replace Comey as FBI director. The following day, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hired Mueller to act as Special Counsel.
Also on Wednesday, Giuliani told Fox News and other outlets that Mueller has agreed that he legally cannot have Trump “indicted” given Justice Department guidance about the nation’s chief executive. Mueller is reportedly leading an investigation into whether or not anyone from Trump’s presidential campaign “colluded” with Russian operatives to help him win the election.
Constitutionally, neither a prosecutor not special counsel can issue an indictment against a citizen. In federal matters, a grand jury, according to the Fifth Amendment, must review evidence to weigh whether or not an indictment for an alleged crime is justified.
Decades ago, grand juries conducted their own investigations, without the input or influence of a prosecutor. Today, grand juries take their cues from prosecutors, and independent investigations are rare.
Hannity also reported, as did The Post & Email earlier, that three members of the House Freedom Caucus have written a letter to Trump asking him to pressure the Justice Department to release documents it has withheld from congressional committees over at least the last year.