NEW on The Investigation podcast: Attorney for President Trump Jay Sekulow tells abc after the Mueller Report: “No collusion, no obstruction.” 🎧:
that concluded this week with a letter from Attorney General William Barr that said the special counsel probe failed to prove collusion and, in Barr's opinion, did not meet the standard for prosecution on allegations that Trump tried to obstruct the inquiry.
"I am pleased that my client, who knew from the outset there was no collusion, that the determination ultimately by the Department of Justice that there was no obstruction," Sekulow said. But the attorney said that even upon the conclusion of the special counsel probe, President Trump has not said a word to him about issuing pardons for any of the former aides and advisers charged criminally in the matter. The investigationand six guilty pleas to date, including against several of Trump's most senior advisers.
"Look there's no question the president has the authority to pardon we know that," Sekulow said. "But there's no ongoing conversations in this regard. And I think that whether the president were ever to decide to exercise it, that would really be something that would be handled internally within the Department of Justice and the White House."
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