Trump Says He’ll Let The DOJ Decide What To Do With Mueller Report

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Acting US Attorney General Matt Whitaker before speaking at the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 7, 2018. (Phot... US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Acting US Attorney General Matt Whitaker before speaking at the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 7, 2018. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump will leave it up to the Justice Department, and whoever might be running it, to decide what to do with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report when the probe is finished, he told The Daily Caller Wednesday.

Trump also said he has never spoken with Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker about how to handle the report.

“No. No, I haven’t spoken to him about that. I would say that I think after almost two years it certainly should be,” he told the Caller when asked if Whitaker had communicated with him about the investigation wrapping up. “Process crimes or process, you know, questions. The answer is different than what you thought it might be and some people say they lost their memory or a lack of memory, which a lot of people can understand that too.

“They’ll have to make their decision within the Justice Department,” he said of how to handle the report. “They will make the decision as to what they do. I could’ve taken a much different stance, I could’ve gotten involved in this, I could’ve terminated everything. I could’ve ended everything. I’ve chosen to stay out of it. But I had the right to, as you know, I had the right, if I wanted to, to end everything. I could’ve just said, ‘that’s enough.’ Many people thought that’s what I should do.”

Read the full interview here. 

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  1. Yeah, well, that’s what he says today.

    His track record for holding to his promises is, well, um, sketchy

  2. If DOJ means “Do Obstruct Justice”, then I believe him…

  3. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Said with crossed fingers and a small, but pudgy and heavy thumb on the scale.

  4. Yeah definitely! The traitor’s appointee should decide what to do with the report. No conflict of interest whatsoever right republicans?

  5. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    …and if the DOJ does not correctly read his mind - he will piss and moan forever!

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