Mueller Has a Parting Gift for Trump: No More Surprises
The special counsel has nothing more to say, which is a promise or a threat, depending on your view of the president.
He speaks.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergThe sphinx finally spoke: But much like his ancient predecessor, special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t resolve any mysteries. At his surprise news conference Wednesday to announce his retirement, Mueller essentially repeated what he had written in his report. He didn’t take questions. He said he didn’t plan to say anything more in public. And he warned Congress that if called to testify, he wouldn’t say anything beyond what was in the report — which he called “my testimony.”
Just about the only new point that Mueller made was to stand up for his team and justify their investigation of obstruction of justice as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. But even this point was made very subtly, and is unlikely to deter President Donald Trump or his supporters from future attacks on Mueller and his staff.