Russia, he said, had engaged in “multiple, systematic” efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, an attack that he said deserved the attention of every American. He carefully explained that his team had felt bound by Justice Department policies that forbid the indictment of a sitting president and that further “principles of fairness” counseled that they should draw no conclusion as to whether the president might have committed a crime if they could not indict him. But he added that “if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said
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