Posted on 05/29/2019 8:30:10 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The kind that gets the country all upset again.
We just finished 2+ years of investigations which had the country at each others throats. He gave out a report, which simply vindicated the POTUS and the people in the country accepted it; and, things have settled down, somewhat.
Well, then this b*****d gets up in front of a microphone and does politically motivated double speak. This basically puts the problem back on the stove, and he turned the heat to high. I cannot believe that this guy did this. He threw a greande into the public arena; and, then walked away into his private life. Unbelieveable.
Indeed, even as a supporter of Cruz in 2016, I hate to say it but he may actually vote to impeach.
And then of course there is Rand “nutjob” Paul. And the wish-wash Sisters from Maine and Alaska.
So that’s 4 right there, possible votes. Still a long way from the 15 required but still. Something to think about (not as assured as we may like to think).
Cruz is a maybe, but this may afford him an opportunity to finally pay Trump back for his nastiness late in the primaries. But the last 3 I’d say are almost assured to vote to impeach, for “principals” doncha know.
Can’t forget Romney.. He hates Trump.
Down to 10 now.
Makes sense— you’re guilty, unless proven innocent. Right? /s
A Senate vote to remove President Trump would be the death of the Republic and should result in the withdrawal of the consent of the governed. Republican deep state Senators who cast such a vote should be considered enemies of the USA.
The law against propaganda in place since just after WWII was lifted in 2013, after 0bama was re-elected.
If you are not under oath, it’s de rigueur to lie with impunity.
For the ‘crime’ of winning against all odds.
Trust me the very opposite is true...had they found the slightest evidence that Trump committed anything remotely criminal they would have been all over it. Mueller’s sophistry is appalling... they could find no evidence of crime, but they couldn’t say there wasn’t any. Kind of like finding Bigfoot... there is no hard evidence Bigfoot exists, but it could still be out there.
Good analogy. And the "believers", in this case the Dems, will continue to follow that shadow.
Mueller wants the average idiot to believe_there was a crime committed that can’t be prosecuted_ and the radio headline Media are running with it.
This is a somewhat special case. He certainly could have referred with a recommendation, even knowing that there could be no actual indictment. That, however is not where the line was drawn.
Mueller decided he didn’t have a case to even attempt or recommend an indictment.
If the DOJ order about not indicting a sitting president was blocking them from indicting Trump, there’s an easy way around it. Crimes like collusion and obstruction do not happen in a vacuum and CEOs are used to giving others orders and expecting them to be carried out. Mueller could have indicted one of the people close to Trump and pressured them to turn on Trump in order to get what they needed. The fact that they did not indict anyone else in Trump’s inner circle (other than old crimes unconnected with the Trump campaign) tells me he did NOT collude or obstruct.
Secondly, Mueller’s statement is like asking the defendant to prove a negative, which is often impossible and must NOT be the burden of proof in an official investigation. There is only evidence (thus charges) and lack of evidence (thus no charges).
Rush Limbaugh concluded Mueller’s announcement was to say he wouldn’t testify before Congress and this was *not* so he’d have to answer questions from Democrats but that he’d answer questions from Republicans. Senate Republicans should subpoena Mueller to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee and, if he refuses to appear, find him in contempt.
Guilty until proven innocent.
I don’t know about that. Mueller has done a pretty good job of making a fool of himself throughout his career. He doesn’t seem to need any help.
You’ve made a superb point. Sitting President Trump may be immune from indictment and prosecution, but one would have to assume that he acted entirely alone, insulated from all of his lieutenants, aides, and assistants throughout the campaign, in his commission of the Russian Collusion and that NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM ASSISTED CANDIDATE TRUMP IN COLLUDING WITH THE RUSSIANS. Not a single one of these people are immunized by being a current sitting president of the United States under the Department of Justice’s policy on indicting which has been in place since 1973 (IIRC), yet not a single one of these supposed co-conspirators was indicted, arrested, or even identified as an un-indicted co-conspirator in obstruction of justice with the sitting president, assuming there actually was no collusion, who would have had to participated in the process of collusion and/or obstruction of justice.
This makes absolutely no sense, unless there WAS no collusion and no obstruction and even no conspiracy (conspiracy even to commit a misdemeanor is a felony). If there were, there should have been ancillary indictments for these primary crimes brought by the grand jury of people near the president associated with actual campaign and administration activities or obstruction of justice other than President Trump, not just of people accused of process crimes having to do with testimony or of individual crimes unrelated to the investigation but uncovered by background discovery investigations.
Mueller and his SLAPP happy gang of prosecutors certainly could have indicted many people surrounding President Trump, especially his advisors, for obstruction had such even existed, because the only one who had a constitutional immunity was President Trump. Ergo, such obstruction simply did not occur.
Because this traitorous cabal of compromised extreme LIB integrity-free a**holes were illegitimate in the first place , these criminals presuppose guilt. All should be disbarred and arrested .
I don’t know about that. Mueller has done a pretty good job of making a fool of himself throughout his career. He doesn’t seem to need any help.
President Trump knew that Mueller would fail, so he gave him everything he asked for.
I am sure the president knew the crazies, Mad Maine, Pelosi, Schiff and others, would never give up.
So by giving Mueller everything he asked for, President Trump is justified in telling the congressional investigators to forget asking for the same stuff all over.
So Mueller’s little speech today accomplished nothing in the real world, regardless of the crazies mental political orgy.
Yes, I know. And you did a fine job of explaining this in more detail. I kept waiting for some talking head to make this point but I didn't hear it.
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