Report Says AG Barr Gave Mueller Permission to Indict Don Jr, Ivanka, Eric and Jared Kushner But not the President

A report from the Spectator says that Robert Mueller met with AG Bill Barr and asked for permission to indict Don Jr, Ivanka, Eric and Jared Kushner, but rebuffed the indictment of the president because the DOJ has a policy of not allowing an indictment of a sitting president.

The source for the story is someone who was not in the room and is unnamed. You may want to take it with a grain of salt, but Barr and Mueller have been close friends for over 20 years and their wives have been in the same Bible study group. So the report could be true or could not.

Via Cockburn at The Spectator.

The story said members of President Trump’s family would be charged but also noted that it is Department of Justice policy not to indict a sitting President. However, there was no frenzy at the DoJ on Friday, no throng of reporters to make the tourists heading up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House stop and look. So what happened?

Several sources tell Cockburn that the Special Counsel has indeed completed his report. It is said to recommend indicting three of President Trump’s children – Don junior, Ivanka and Eric – as well as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The Attorney General, William Barr, is said to have ‘silently assented’ to this. It’s also claimed that Mueller wants President Trump himself to be indicted. Barr is said to oppose this. The two men met on Friday but apparently could not agree and this was the reason for the delay in any announcement from the DoJ. At least this is what the sources say.

So who are these sources? Joseph Heller mocked Washington’s – and journalism’s — culture of ‘sources’ in his novel Good as Gold.

‘I believe I got that information about you from a reliable unnamed source.’

‘I’ve been doing a lot of work here as an unnamed source,’ Gold answered with nervousness and haste, ‘so it may have come from me. No truth to it at all.’

None of Cockburn’s sources was ‘in the room’ – as they say in Washington – for the (alleged) discussions between Mueller and Barr and their two staffs. And none of the sources was briefed by the people ‘in the room’. But they did talk to the people briefed by the people in the room and – twice removed from the original conversations – they all give the same account.

It is that the older Trump children and Jared will be indicted for financial crimes while Mueller wants to charge Trump with obstruction of justice. The charges, Cockburn is told now, will not be about ‘Russia collusion’.

And here he is calling Mueller a “straight shooter”…. come on….

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