Just days after the release of the highly anticipated Mueller report, one of President Donald Trump's top advisers, Kellyanne Conway, said Sunday the investigation found Trump committed no crime -- and even predicted another term for the president.
"The job of a prosecutor is to gather evidence and decide whether to indict or to decline to indict. They declined to indict," the White House counselor said on “This Week.""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."
Conway referenced the press conference former FBI Director James Comey gave in July 2016 in which he announced the Justice Department was declining to prosecute Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while at the same time saying there was “evidence of potential violations” of handling classified information and called her action’s “extremely careless.”
While the report detailed multiple points of contact between members of the Trump campaign and members of the Russian government -- or those claiming to be -- Mueller concluded these instances didn't amount to a criminal conspiracy or coordination with the Russians. In a March 24 letter, Attorney General William Barr said he, in consultation with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, determined that"the evidence developed during the [investigation was] not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
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