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CNN: Mueller’s team told Trump’s lawyers they can’t indict a president

By CNN.

Published May 17, 2018 at 10:17 am

In this file photo taken on April 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump speaks about tax cuts during an event with American workers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.The Democratic Party filed a lawsuit on April 20, 2018 alleging that Russia, WikiLeaks and top officials from Donald Trump's campaign conspired to tilt the 2016 US presidential election in the Republican's favor. The civil complaint filed in federal district court in Manhattan by the Democratic National Committee alleges that Russia informed Trump's campaign that it had conducted a cyber-attack on the DNC, leading to the release of information damaging to Trump's rival Hillary Clinton.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has informed President Donald Trump’s attorneys that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting president, according to the President’s lawyer.

“All they get to do is write a report,” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told CNN. “They can’t indict. At least they acknowledged that to us after some battling, they acknowledged that to us.”