Kamala Harris makes claim debunked by Barr and Mueller on why Trump wasn’t indicted

Published September 13, 2019 1:12am ET



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.

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