Posted on 06/06/2019 10:01:28 AM PDT by billorites
Now that Robert Mueller has closed up shop as special counsel and shot off fireworks at his final press conference, the country can step back and assess the job he did. The results are decidedly mixed.
Mueller made two vital contributions. The first was an in-depth investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. He concluded it was systematic and favored Donald Trump. The second was an intensive examination of possible coordination between the Russians and the Trump campaign. He concluded that no charges were warranted against any Americans.
The country needed those investigations and Mueller deserves praise for conducting them. More ambiguous was his non-finding of obstruction against the president, which, predictably, has been subject to deep partisan divisions.
Mueller’s two-volume report leaves several big, unanswered questions, though Democrats and Republicans differ on what they are. Democrats, focusing on the second volume, firmly believe Trump interfered with Mueller’s probe. All want further investigations; some want impeachment. Since the Senate is unlikely to convict — the evidence is too thin to win a two-thirds majority — the Democrats’ practical goal is to damage Trump’s chances in 2020. Their political problem, well understood by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is that a doomed effort will hurt the Democrats even more.
Republicans reject the obstruction claims, noting that Trump provided millions of documents and gave Mueller unprecedented access to White House staff. Even if Mueller believed he could not indict a sitting president, he could have said the evidence justified it. He made no such statement, though he did list some instances that might be considered obstruction.
Republicans add three more serious charges against Mueller. First, his team was packed with partisan Democrats, many closely affiliated with Hillary Clinton and strongly biased against Trump. Second, the report itself was shoddy and unfair...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Russia spent around $70k in online activities and this was a systematic interference in the 2016 election according to Mueller?
Does Mueller not remember that Russia was also said to have interfered in the 2014 election?
Mueller tampered with evidence as proven by the doctored phone recordings between Flynn and Trump’s lawyer.
The deep state Mueller, brought out of retirement for a kamikaze attack on the USS Trump, has missed his target and crashed. He is done.
Now is the time to steadily release information on his, and his team’s overt bias. A steady drip, drip, drip over the next 18 months will turn him into a pariah.
Mueller also said that his report does not exonerate Trump, something that no one in his position had ever done or said before, the equivalent to a judge or jury spokesperson saying they couldn’t find the defendant guilty but don’t know if he is still truly innocent.
Couldn’t stand him in 2001 and he’s done nothing to help his rep since.
and of that $70K between 40 an 50% was for pro-Hillary or anti-Trump ads.
The author engages in typical DC BS. I have yet to hear of any actual proof that THE RUSSIANS! interfered at all for President Trump. Mueller’s reputation really could not sink much from the Whitey Bulger and Hatfill days. Mueller remains weapons grade scum.
“Mueller also said that his report does not exonerate Trump, something that no one in his position had ever done or said before, the equivalent to a judge or jury spokesperson saying they couldn’t find the defendant guilty but don’t know if he is still truly innocent.”
‘Not Exonerated’ Is Not a Standard Any Free Country Should Accept!
By CHARLES C. W. COOKE
May 29, 2019 11:52 AM
‘Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after delivering a statement on his investigation at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., May 29, 2019.’
I’m sorry to be a broken record on this, but this line from Robert Mueller infuriates me:
“If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so.” Mueller
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) May 29, 2019
That’s not how it works in America. Investigators are supposed to look for evidence that a crime was committed, and, if they don’t find enough to contend that a crime was a committed, they are supposed to say “We didn’t find enough to contend that a crime was committed.” They are not supposed to look for evidence that a crime was not committed and then say, “We couldn’t find evidence of innocence.”
I understand that Mueller was in an odd position. I understand, too, that this wasn’t a criminal trial. But I don’t think those norms are rendered any less important by those facts. By asking the executive to investigate itself, it was guaranteed — yes, guaranteed — that we’d have a fight over “obstruction of justice.” For the architect of that investigation to keep saying “We aren’t exonerating our target” is extraordinary. Innocence is the default position in this country. If a person doesn’t have enough evidence that someone committed a crime to contend that a crime was committed, he is obliged to presume his innocence. “Not exonerated” is not a standard in our system, and it shouldn’t be one in our culture, either.
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The entire charade was about hamstringing the Trump Administration and delaying progress on the MAGA agenda, to try and make Trump a failed president...and if they got lucky and Trump stumbled, they’d get him out of office.
It was obstruction of government. Running out the clock till at worst they could get a do-over with even greater levels of fraud from illegal voting.
They’ll try something like it once again if Trump beats them in 2020. The Deep State, The Democrat Party and the Establishment GOP - 90 percent of Washington D.C. - is the enemy of the American nation and American people.
The irony is if the Muslims or some other terrorist org managed to dirty bomb or nuke D.C. they might actually end up saving America.
Excecllent read. Thanks for providing it!
Mueller’s “reasoning” and the Dems playbook follows this standard:
The seriousness of the allegations against Trump requires unending investigations on Trump...
Where did he learn to do that?
$70k? that’s it? geez, United States elections are going for pretty cheap these days. $70,000...
It is not just irony, it is logically thought out. I said recently, if it looks like war was coming immediately, I would head to DC where I would be safest because no adversary would take out its 5th column.
Didn’t Mueller also conclude that the Russians hacked the DNC server despite the fact that Nobody from the Justice Dept or FBI ever even examined the server?
Russia and the USA have interfered in elections all around the world including into each other’s. The Americans put a lot more money into the business of electioneering in foreign lands than anyone else does and all advanced countries do it to each other and to the non advanced countries. We knew it was happening and probably the complete extent of it before Mueller cried, “AHA!
There never was ANY investigation. Mueller was part of the coup from the beginning.
Speculation:
The ambiguity of Mueller’s conclusions were intentional to leave room for the Demos to further humiliate themselves and to keep them busy making more and increasingly stupid statements and taking stupid actions. They have a real talent for that.
The results of the conclusions keep the MSM busy screaming into the the void, stupid fake news that obviously is fake. A cover for what is actually happening in terms of justice.
Just my .02
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