NEW: Hundreds of former prosecutors say President Trump would have been indicted if he were not president.
that says a sitting president cannot be indicted. Mueller said that his team"accepted OLC's legal conclusion for the purpose of exercising prosecutorial jurisdiction."
According to Mueller's 448-page report, his office weighed charging Trump with obstruction but didn't in part because"we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President's capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional process for addressing presidential misconduct."
The letter's list of signees — 379 as of Monday afternoon — includes 29 people who have served in the Justice Department under Trump and more than 100 officials who have served in the DOJ for 20 years or more.Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani when he was the then-associate attorney general under President Ronald Reagan. Bill Weld, a former assistant U.S. attorney during the Reagan administration running as a Republican against Trump in 2020, also signed the letter.
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