There is no grey matter left in the vacant bone hole that dangles atop your shoulders.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-press-conference
"Attorney General William Barr on Thursday affirmed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians during the 2016 presidential election, addressing reporters shortly before he is expected to release Mueller's report to Congress and to the public."
This needs to be put to rest already. It was a political witch hunt, no question about it. It was always built on the everybody gets a trophy crowd not being able to handle not getting their way. You lefties should apologize.
So has the situation changed at all?
We know the Russians attempted to influence the election, as per every US intelligence agency.
We know high level members of the Trump administration and Trump campaign had various contacts with Russian operatives and we know that at least some of it was also about influencing the election, as per verbal and written statements from the culprits themselves and evidence from the intelligence agencies.
We know that Trump and various associates attempted to obstruct the course of justice and cover up those contacts, as per statements by Trump himself and repeated evidence of lying by him and his associates.
Yet somehow, despite a mountain of evidence, a lot of it straight from the mouths of the accused. They still don't have the evidence to go further with this? I don't believe Trump is an actual Russian agent. But the evidence shows multiple contacts that were , at best, inappropriate and, at worst, illegal. Even if you choose to ignore that. Trump has openly admitted to obstructing the course of justice. How is that not being acted upon?
Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
Report is live for those interested:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
It looks like Appendix C lists Mueller's famous written questions to Trump, and Trump's responses. That section appears to be entirely unredacted. Obviously, I haven't yet had time to read it in detail, but a quick glance indicates (surprise!) quite a lot of not recalling of times, persons or events.
Think of the constitutional nightmare if I were wrong - the president could effectively veto congress’s Attempts to investigate him for impeachable offenses.
That’s begging for a dictatorship right there.
Old school reporting - Do you mean the truth?
Actually...He's not even acting as a White House counsel. That would imply he is defending the integrity of the Office of the President. He's simply acting as a defense attorney for the shitbird in the Oval Office.
We've gone so low that I was actually saying to myself - "Well, at least he didn't savage Christopher Steele's reputation... yet!"
Yes, redacted grand jury testimony is literally the only thing that can save us from dictatorship. It’s like @fskimospy is the R2D2 hologram message of Princess Leia from Star Wars, “save me Robert Mueller your grand jury testimony is my only hope.”
Again it should be released but you are quite literally hoping for a political Hail Mary miracle here. Even if released the testimony isn’t going to get Trump out of office.
Here is the full context.Trump's reaction to the Special Counsel appointment (according to notes from Jody Hunt): "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'M FUCKED!"
Yes, redacted grand jury testimony is literally the only thing that can save us from dictatorship. It’s like @fskimospy is the R2D2 hologram message of Princess Leia from Star Wars, “save me Robert Mueller your grand jury testimony is my only hope.”
Again it should be released but you are quite literally hoping for a political Hail Mary miracle here. Even if released the testimony isn’t going to get Trump out of office.
I'm not hoping for a political anything, I'm simply stating what the Constitution says. There is nothing that exists in the United States that can bar Congress from accessing any information the government possesses that is relevant to an impeachment inquiry. No classification, no grand jury testimony, nothing. The right is absolute.
Yes though, the executive branch having veto power over how it can be investigated would be catastrophic for democracy.
So the missing link was the guy who conveniently committed suicide. Brilliant!Trump personally directed efforts to obtain Clinton's missing emails.
In parallel with Chuck Grassley's office.
All those times Trump tried to obstruct Justice? It wasn't malicious, folks. It was just incompetence. Stupid shit happens when people get mad. So let's just forget about it, OK?
Yeah let’s see how that “absolute right” goes when it bumps against separation of powers.
Who wants to take bets that Trump fights all of this all the way to SCOTUS?