Posted on 03/02/2019 6:51:10 AM PST by Drew68
After endless hype, special counsel Robert Mueller may be about to submit his report. It is impossible to know what his conclusions will be. But after so much speculation, one outcome seems likely: Mueller will disappoint just about everyone — especially President Trump’s critics. And it won’t be his fault.
This is due in part to Trump’s successful disinformation crusade, which has worked to raise a nearly impossible and definitely illogical bar for Mueller to clear: proving “collusion” and charging a grand criminal conspiracy involving the Trump campaign and the Russian government. But it is also due to Trump’s critics, who have responded to Trump’s “No collusion!” mantra by shouting back, “Yes, collusion!”
The word collusion appears nowhere in the order authorizing Mueller’s investigation. There is not even a relevant crime called “collusion.” What Mueller is tasked with is investigating “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with” the Trump campaign.
If “links and/or coordination” also don’t sound like crimes, that’s because they aren’t. While Mueller is directed to charge and prosecute crimes he discovers, his is primarily a counterintelligence investigation — not a criminal one — the purpose of which is to identify threats to our national security, potentially including the President of the United States and his associates.
Mueller’s investigation is already successful. He has laid bare connections between key members of Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives, including the recent revelation that former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort allegedly shared internal polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who Mueller has alleged is a former Russian intelligence officer. Along the way, Mueller has charged 34 people and three companies with committing serious crimes.
But all the while, partisans and legal analysts on TV and Twitter have inflated expectations for the investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Oh, and Time may want to revisit the definition of "almost everybody" as there will undoubtedly be millions of Americans who are not disappointed.
How many people have been murdered in Democrat run cities while the Democrats wasted their time and our resources on this farce?
Liberals brace themselves for a disastrous Mueller report that clears President Trump of collusion ...............which is not a crime in the first place.
TIME was up a long time ago.
This is due in part to Trump’s successful disinformation crusade,..
YES, because disinformation trumps facts.
#### you Time.
I hate this mother ####ing magazine and between this and the CNN article with Ted Turner and that #### getting arrested at Berkeley, I am taking a break from FR today before i get kicked off again.
good day.
This is due in part to Trump’s successful disinformation crusade, ........
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Um, no. It is due to there being NO collusion & thus no evidence of something that did not exist. The Left absolutely cannot deal with this.
because Hillary didn’t write it ?
“Time” busily moving the goal posts while simultaneously lowering expectations. Coordinate with the Deep-State much?
It is past time to wrap this pitiful democrat bulling up and go after the real criminals and that would be Hillary and her group of thugs that should be in jail but aren’t..Mueller being one of them..Leave our President alone and let him get to work doing his job..The thing all you idiot democrats should be doing and stop chasing your tails trying to get rid of the best President ever..
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Exactly right, sir.
Only a bunch of Lefty nitwits in denial can come up with a conclusion like: "If they can't prove a nonexistent crime, it's Trump's fault."
I had to read this part of the Time article twice. The MSM has become a parody of themselves. It is comical.
They are seriously blaming President Trump for not being guilty of something that isn't even a crime. They might as well have titled their article; "The Mueller Report will Disappoint Everybody and it's Trump's Fault"
FUtime
>>which has worked to raise a nearly impossible and definitely illogical bar for Mueller to clear: proving “collusion” and charging a grand criminal conspiracy involving the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
You can ONLY charge him with a crime IF you can PROVE “collusion” which has been YOUR butthurt Hitlery Rotten Clinton charge against Trump since 2016. Put up or STFU.
Nothing illogical about it. Damn commie rat bastards.
The primary objective of the report will be to protect Mueller and his cohorts.
I’m disappointed that Mulehead, Comeystain, Hillary, and Obama won’t be charged for their criminal conspiracy.
“It’s all Trump’s fault that he’s not guilty”
LOL Too funny!!!
and buy time to further the escape.
The day “ain’t done yet”.
Bit by bit it’s tricking out. The release of the FISA files will start pointing fingersz again. More facts will come out.
The whole system was weaponized for a wholesale sell out of America to a marxist-muslim -UN machine, a totalitarian state of equal opportunity for non white/non christian players.
I’m waiting for a mueller indictment.
> “This is due in part to Trump’s successful disinformation crusade ...”
Hehehehe haha! Yeah, sure!
> “... which has worked to raise a nearly impossible and definitely illogical bar for Mueller to clear ...”
HahaHAHA hehehehe! Stop! You’re killing me!
Comedian Renuttyo MariMoron writing for ‘TIME’ ... is ‘TIME’ still in business?
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