“There were people in the group who were pushing for a clearer expression of the president’s misconduct and why they were not charging it,” said one person who talked with members of the team. They believed they “definitely had enough to indict any other human being.” Mueller argued a pure, apolitical view about the impropriety of concluding Trump had engaged in a crime, considering the OLC opinion. Amid an extensive back-and-forth over how they should summarize Trump’s actions—and all the indications he had sought to interfere in the probe—Mueller and his team agreed to language stating that
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