Key Takeaways From the Mueller Report on Trump and Russia
Opening comments from Heritage foundation:
article"The final report by special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, but details in the 448-page document provide fodder for congressional Democrats who want more investigations.
The lightly redacted report released Thursday by the Justice Department states that President Donald Trump feared appointment of a special counsel would mean the “end” of his presidency.
But it does not say conclusively that the president tried to obstruct the probe, and Attorney General William Barr determined that the evidence did not support criminal charges.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Thursday that Barr will testify May 2, and that Mueller himself will testify shortly after that. "
article"The final report by special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, but details in the 448-page document provide fodder for congressional Democrats who want more investigations.
The lightly redacted report released Thursday by the Justice Department states that President Donald Trump feared appointment of a special counsel would mean the “end” of his presidency.
But it does not say conclusively that the president tried to obstruct the probe, and Attorney General William Barr determined that the evidence did not support criminal charges.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Thursday that Barr will testify May 2, and that Mueller himself will testify shortly after that. "
If Trump has any evidence against members of the previous administration and/or against the Clinton campaign and DNC, then make it public. Q has been claiming action is imminent for months. I am out of patience. Punish the treasonous vermin.
Simultaneously Trump must declas FISA and release it.
It is high time the hysterical tantrum of impeachment, subpoenas and moving the target by the left must be stopped. Barr has enough evidence and so does Trump.
Push back that mob otherwise it will push you. The left has taken this to extreme, unprecedented levels. They will not spare anyone let alone the country. There is only one way to handle a destructive force such as this: annihilate it.
Part of the reason it took so long was because Mueller was stalling to see what would happen during the 2018 elections. He hoped (along with many Democrats) that the investigation would bring landslide victory to the Democrats in Congress so they could then Impeach the President and drive him from office. When that didn't happen (most of the Democrat victories were due to gerrymandered re-districting in California), all they could hope for was any shred of an excuse to then attempt to prosecute Trump politically via hearings. Mueller did exactly was his Democratic handlers told him to do when they realized that they couldn't get him on real charges. It was the same thing they did to Michael Flynn - set him up and entrap him.
The scope memo [highlighted w/in Mueller report] confirms the 'dossier' was the 'tool' used by [RR] to justify SC and was the primary 'vehicle' to which [RR] tasked MUELLER.
If the dossier was known to be unverified and fake, how then was an investigation started to begin with?
At what point did MUELLER determine there was no collusion?
[18-months ago?]
Was the investigation kept ongoing as a 'talking point' to rig the midterm elections?
Was the investigation kept ongoing to retain the 'BLOCKADE' to essentially restrict POTUS from unmasking and informing the public as to the TRUTH about what really happened?
Was the investigation kept ongoing to PROTECT THOSE WHO 'KNOWINGLY' COMMITTED TREASON/SEDITION?
NO BLOCKADE = GAME OVER
Q
The dilemma the Democrats now face is finding a way to convince the formerly hesitant bureaucrats that their careers could still be in jeopardy, to hold off consequences as long as possible. It's that fear of the legal avalanche poised to descend upon them that is driving their feverish hunt for something, anything to investigate.
The reason he didn't do that is both sides new the evidence was missing/false for collusion. That's why there is no mention any more of collusion, only obstruction and there only 10 "Possible" instances.
there had to be a crime in order to obstruct justice (interfere with the conduct of the investigation or some other such activity). Telling a subordinate to tell someone else to Fire Mueller is not obstruction when the middle man didn't cary out the order. That would be aking to being charged with attempted murder if you told someone to kill person a and they didn't do it. by the logic proposed you would be charged with attempted Murder because you told someone to commit the crime but they didn't. Does not make sense there or in the case of Trump. Personally, I doubt he ever gave such instructions. Some of the people involved would lie just to keep from telling the truth even once.
I by the way: I did read the damn report.
They did a thorough and fair investigation and didn't find anything. The American gov't, despite its problems, works.
The report couldn't be any more positive to Trump, at least based on my limited reading of news articles. I had kept wondering why Trump acts so guilty. The report answers this question: contemporaneous notes show Trump said he was worry the investigation would cripple his administration, even if it was baseless.
Nutjobs dreamed up conspiracy theories: Maybe Mueller had it in for Trump. Maybe Mueller was secretly working some grand plan, and Trump was only pretending to be frustrated with Sessions. It turned out to be all nonsense.
It hope the government can stop focusing on who might benefit from Russian interference and instead focus on exposing it.
Several people have had their lives ruined and gone to jail because Mueller hoped to use them to get Trump. Manafort seems to have deserved it. Flynn got it for just doing his job -- diplomacy sometimes involves back channel discussions. Why the FBI had a right to what efforts the incoming Trump team were making to build a working relationship with Russia are beyond me.