Mueller Refuses To Say That Trump Didn’t Conspire With The Russians

Mueller: We were ongoing for two years.

Q: You were ongoing. You wrote it at some point during that two-year period. At some point, you had to come to the conclusion that I don’t think there’s — there’s not a conspiracy going on here. There was no conspiracy between this president and — I’m not talking about the rest of the president’s team. I’m talking about this president and the Russians.

Mueller: As you understand, developing a criminal case, you get a piece of information, a piece of information, witnesses and the like. And you make your case.

Q: Right.

Mueller: And when you make a decision a particular case depends on a number of factors.

Q: Right. I understand.

Mueller: Though I cannot say specifically that we reached a decision on a particular defendant at a particular point in time.

Q: But it was sometime well before you wrote the report. You wrote the report dealing with a myriad of issues. You reached the decision that, okay, with regard to the president himself, I don’t find anything here. Fair enough?