George Conway in Op-Ed: If Mueller Report Doesn’t Exonerate Trump, It Must Include Something ‘Pretty Damning’

George Conway has an op-ed in the Washington Post out tonight on the takeaways from Bill Barr‘s summary of Robert Mueller‘s findings––making it clear no matter what President Donald Trump is manifestly unfit for office.

Conway––husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway––writes that “it was always virtually unimaginable that collusion, so defined, would ever be found” and the ultimate finding on that issue “was bound to become a straw man for President Trump and his supporters to knock down with glee.”

He does note the counter-intelligence part of the report and asks, “So who knows what we might learn on these subjects from Mueller’s still-unreleased report?”

Conway acknowledges the case of obstruction was a difficult one because “on the facts, obstruction turns on what’s in a defendant’s mind — often a difficult thing to determine, and especially difficult with a mind as twisted as Trump’s.”

But the fact that Mueller wrote “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him” is stunning to Conway:

Mueller isn’t prone to cheap shots; he plays by the rules, every step of the way. If his report doesn’t exonerate the president, there must be something pretty damning in it about him, even if it might not suffice to prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. And in saying that the report “catalogu[ed] the President’s actions, many of which took place in public view,” Barr’s letter makes clear that the report also catalogues actions taken privately that shed light on possible obstruction, actions that the American people and Congress yet know nothing about.

No matter what the Mueller report says or whether it gets released in full, Conway adds that “Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal.”

You can read his full op-ed here.