The Mueller team collected enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of justice — and Trump would most likely be under indictment right now if he were not a sitting president, according to a Friday report by Murray Waas in the New York Review of Books.
Prosecutors working for Mueller said that, if not for current Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president, they would have advocated that Trump should face federal criminal charges for pressuring former FBI Director James Comey to drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Waas spoke to two Justice Department officials who confirmed they were told this information personally by two prosecutors on Mueller’s team. A third person present for the conversation confirmed that it occurred.
View the compete April 27 article by Dan Desai Martin on the National Memo website here.