新任总检察长巴尔就任后的表现,给人的印象是:他不是为美国公众服务的,而只是川普的御用律师,形象策划师。他竭力扭曲穆勒报告,掩盖对川普不利的证据,反复试图给公众一个牢固的第一印象:川普是无辜的。巴尔在本周二就将穆勒报告给川普的律师们看了,可国会却只能等到他今天的新闻发布会结束后才能看到,这是非常不公平的。而且巴尔在记者会上说穆勒并没有表明是否将川普可能妨碍司法公正的问题留给国会来回答,可随后公布的穆勒报告却明白无误地证明巴尔所言不是事实:“The conclusion that Congress may apply obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”
你提到的这个是主因。穆勒报告有一段话:"Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment."而且穆勒在第221页提到动机的重要性,援引一个案例:
An improper motive can render an actor's conduct criminal even when the conduct would
otherwise be lawful and within the actor's authority. See United States v. Cueto, 151 F.3d 620,
不过,你还是需要多多求真知啊!因为老川说‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked.’能说明他有问题吗?如果国家级别的调查就是基于这句话,而且花了3千万美元也没查到什么,那就比曹操杀吕伯奢一家还没来头了!"