(Washington Examiner) Sen. Kamala Harris of California made a claim about why President Trump was not indicted that has been debunked by Attorney General William Barr and special counsel Robert Mueller during her opening statement at the Democratic presidential debate Thursday evening.
“The only reason you [Trump] have not been indicted is because there was a memo in the Department of Justice that says a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime,” Harris told the crowd at Texas Southern University.
But both Barr and Mueller have repeatedly contradicted the claim made by Harris and others that Trump would have been charged with a crime if not for the existence of an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion which says a president can’t be indicted while in office.
