Fox anchor: Mueller nowhere near as ‘clear-cut’ as Barr on obstruction, collusion

Fox News anchor Bret Baier said Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s public statements on the Russia investigation were not “anywhere near as clear-cut” as President Trump’s and Attorney General William Barr’s pronouncements.

“This was not — as the president says time and time again — ‘no collusion, no obstruction.’ It was much more nuanced than that. He said specifically they couldn’t find evidence to move forward with the crime of collusion for the investigation of the Trump campaign,” Baier said. “It was not anywhere as clear-cut as Attorney General Bill Barr. In fact, it was almost exactly the opposite: not clear-cut.”

{mosads}Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano also reacted to Mueller’s remarks, telling the Fox Business Network that the special counsel’s remarks were “even stronger than the language in his report” and that he had provided “remarkably similar” evidence to the kind cited against Presidents Nixon and Clinton.

Napolitano has criticized Trump’s handling of the Mueller probe, prompting Trump to claim Napolitano asked him for a job but was denied.

During Wednesday’s statement, in which Mueller announced his resignation and the closure of the special counsel’s office, Mueller said his office did not have the authority to charge a sitting president with any crimes, while adding that “if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. We did not.”

Since the release of a summary by Barr at the end of Mueller’s 22-month probe, Trump has repeatedly declared full exoneration and that Mueller found no collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice. Mueller later wrote in a letter to Barr that the attorney general did not “fully capture the context” of his findings.