The Wall Street Journal reports Special Counsel Finds No Evidence of Collusion Between Trump Campaign and Russia.
Briefing News
- “Attorney General Barr Sends to Congress ‘Principal Conclusions’ of Mueller Investigation”
- “Mueller Report Offers No Conclusion on Whether President Trump Obstructed Justice”
- “Mueller Report Leaves to Attorney General to Determine Whether Trump Behavior Constitutes Crime”
- “Attorney General Concludes Evidence in Mueller Insufficient to Constitute Obstruction of Justice”
- “Mueller Says Report Does Not Conclude Trump Committed Crime, but Also Does Not Exonerate President”
- “Special Counsel Finds No Evidence of Collusion Between Trump Campaign and Russia”
Key questions for the Justice Department will center around how to handle release of classified material or information sourced from a grand jury, how to share information with the White House, and whether to allow select members of Congress to review the report and provide a redacted version for broader consumption.
Here’s the Mueller Report Letter that Bar Sent to Congress.
Witch Hunt Will Continue
Democrats will latch on to point number 5 above, ensuring the witch hunt will continue.
Democratic committee chairmen, meantime, stressed in a phone call with lawmakers that Congress is focused well beyond the scope of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which was limited to Russian interference in the 2016 election. “Our work is really far broader,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.). “We’ve got an independent constitutional duty to examine all of the evidence.”
What started out as an investigation about Russia collusion has morphed into anything and everything but a Russia collusion investigation.
As long as we are examining all the evidence of wrongdoing, how about further investigation of Hillary Clinton?
Release the Report
A push toward disclosure has been building in both parties in for weeks, but not all in Congress are in favor of the report’s release. Earlier this month, the House voted 420-0 to pass a resolution calling for the public release of Mr. Mueller’s report, but a Democratic effort to pass the measure in the Senate was blocked by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.).
Just release the damn thing. Not releasing the report will bring charges that Republicans want to hide something.
Witch Hunt
A USA Today Poll shows a majority in the US view the investigation for what it is: A witch hunt.
I suspect that number would be a lot higher of the poll was taken again today. Yet ….
Democrat Judiciary Chairman: “We Know There Was Collusion”
At about the 40 second mark, Rep. Jerrold Nadler told CNN “We know there was some collusion. We know that the president’s son and campaign manager were involved in a meeting with Russians to receive stolen, what they thought was information stolen by the Russians from the Democratic National Committee as part of the Russian government attempt to help Trump in the election. … We know there was collusion. Why there has been no indictments, we don’t know.”
Those last two sentences would make more sense if we changed the context to Hillary, and changed the words “was collusion” to “serious crimes”.
Nadler used the word “know” a dozen times when “flamboyantly allege” would be far more appropriate.
Media Bias
As has been true for two years, I’d be happy to go on MSNBC and CNN to talk about the journalistic fraud they were committing, but they didn’t alow any of that questioning of the tales to air (especially MSNBC). Institutions turn rotten when no dissent or skepticism is allowed: https://t.co/fqyMSKLvUn
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2019
Byzantine Investigation
This Generation’s WMD
Please consider It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD by Matt Taibbi.
Taibbi accurately assesses “The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.”
Finally, Nadler’s claim that Russia stole documents from the DNC was long ago proved preposterous. It was an inside job.
We understand that fact simply from time stamps and how long it would have taken a foreign hack to do the job.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Before the planted dossier the US Counter intelligence tried to plant evidence of collusion w/ Hillary dirt on Trump. It didn’t work thankfully, can it get any easier to understand?
Look at the number of “criminals” that were created because their memories of emails and meetings years ago don’t match. That’s called obstruction of justice. They go after your friends, family and colleagues. Who that is not an insider would now want to subject himself and his own to such scrutiny. The witch hunt worked, and they aren’t done with him yet.
Trump is the turd in the new world order punch bowl. He wants nothing to do with the whole one world government / one world market / NWO thing, and he is persecuted because of it. That is also why Putin is also a pariah, among other mischief he is involved in.
Muller has done his job. He has made any real opposition candidate think twice. This is the Tyranny in action.
“Muller has done his job. He has made any real opposition candidate think twice.”
Dr. Jerome Corsi is personally suing Robert Mueller for prosecutorial abuse, according to a report by Bill Still.
Taibbi accurately assesses “The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.”
The MSM has exposed itself as being a propaganda operation.
Democrat Judiciary Chairman: “We Know There Was Collusion”
There was collusion against Trump.
Exactly. Perhaps it is time the table were turned and those who were making these malicious allegations were themselves investigated. I think that there are questions about the role of the Hilary Campaign and the DNC’s role that need explaining.
Dude Hilary has been investigated since his husband presidency and nothing has been proven against her. I would only hope that Trump is investigated the same number of years.
“Dude Hilary has been investigated since his husband presidency and nothing has been proven against her”
Comey laid out the case against Hillary in reference to her server.
Comey then warned that if anyone in the future did what Hillary did, they should not expect to go unpunished. If Clinton was not considered to have committed a crime, there was no reason for Comey to warn others in the future.
Comey obstructed her case from going to the Grand Jury for political, not evidentiary reasons.
“Glad Taibbi can see that. He’s an interesting writer who does good work in the financial realm, in fact he deserves a medal for coining the “vampire squid” moniker for Goldman Sachs. However, his intense dislike of Trump sometimes leads his political observations astray.”
I don’t particularly care for Trump either but I would vote for him again in one second flat over Hillary or the progressives.
It’s impossible to remain unbiased but I try. History shows I am an equal party basher. I support policies, not political parties. Thus, I tend to dislike whoever is in power.
Yeah, I don’t question your intentions Mish, I was only thinking of Taibbi when I wrote that. I’ve read most of his stuff because he’s one of the few big writers who tackles financial corruption, but he never saw 2016 coming and it took him a few beats to internalize what it meant.
As anybody around here knows, I’m not exactly an ardent defender of Trump myself. I never bought into him but I understood the appeal and why he won.
Never the less, the Mueller Investigation accomplished maybe all it every could have hoped for:
1). Deflected attention from the internally leaked DNC Podesta emails showing Hillary and the DNC are corrupt.
2). Poisoned relations with Russia thus preventing Trump’s pledge to improve relations, and ratcheted up military tensions with her in order to justify another totally unnecessary huge increase in U.S. spending on War & Aggression, because corporate profits and American Imperialism.
3). Allowed Democrats to not have to address why the suck on issues that 80% of working class Americans support including Republicans…like Medicare for all, ending our Forever Wars, prosecuting Banksters and other elites that are above the law.
The thing is that Mueller limited himself to only look at the collusion and the obstruction aspect of his investigation. Anything else that he discovered was ass to the SD NY (Unlike Ken Star that kept all for his case related or not. Now for those Trump supporters calling victory I think it is premature. I can see a SD indictment against the Trump organization and a RICO type of case against it. Trump would be left untouched but not so his organization or family for that matter. I think that the reason Trump didn’t wanted any snooping around Russia was nothing to do with collusion and everything related to something else…
America desperately needs outsiders to go to DC and take away the power and privilege the career politicians there have taken for themselves. Unfortunately for America this is how outsiders will be treated: they and their staff will be destroyed. Anyone cheering for this treatment with Trump will be singing a different tune when it comes to their guy, and they will, and should, be rightfully dismissed because of their hypocrisy.
Setting a witch hunt precedent may feel like fun now, if you hate Trump, but it can’t be undone. It makes us look like a banana republic before the world, eagerly criminalizing opposition politicians…crazy.
Some pardons are in order… what a sad episode in America’s history.
The so call precedent happened long ago when the republicans decided to witch hunt Bill Clinton for a real state deal and impeached him for lying under oath on a sexual matter. Or do you forget the sins of the republicans … BTW how about the witch hunt of the birthing.
Meanwhile, we still collude to fix elections across the globe.
Should Democrats who were convinced there was collusion be allowed to hold office? They lack any vestige of unbiased reasoning capability.
I dont know? should a guy who without any evidence kept accusing Obama of being born in Kenya? I am with you they all should resign.
” I am with you they all should resign.”
Emphasis All…. As in, absolutely all. Current and future.
89% of our Senators and Congress hold dual citizenship citizenship with Israel, Rep. Jerrold Nadler is one of them. Collusion? Listen to our politicians kowtow to Israel.
Pretty sure the 89% figure is erroneous, but whatever the actual number is it’s still too high. We only have two true friends in the world in Israel and Saudi Arabia, much to our detriment. Under the right circumstances we’re willing to let anyone else in the world burn, even Canada and the UK, but we’re locked in a carnal embrace with our two Middle Eastern buds to the bitter end.
Russia gate is the lefts birtherism. Hilarious to see the media meltdown. The report also didn’t exonerate trump of being a ham sandwich so hopefully Congress investigates that too.
Matt Taibbi has a good synopsis of the whole charade…
Glad Taibbi can see that. He’s an interesting writer who does good work in the financial realm, in fact he deserves a medal for coining the “vampire squid” moniker for Goldman Sachs. However, his intense dislike of Trump sometime leads his political observations astray.