What do you want to bet it will be delayed til Friday?
Told all yâall this was coming out. No need to despair. Just get your reading glasses on, get the mood lighting, coffee, tea, wine or drink of choice, and pore through the thing. Letâs crowd source this and find out all the stuff the Barr left out, and hyper-analyze all the stuff that he left in. Donât listen to media spin. We should be the news generators. Make your observations, put it online, make it go viral. Force the media to cover the real story in this release.
Thursday before Easter weekendâŚBetter then Friday newsdrop
The media need to get this one right. DO NOT claim the report issued is the Mueller report. It isnât. Itâs the Barr/Trump report. Until the real and unredacted Mueller report comes out, no summary of redacted version should be treated as at all legitimate.
GET THIS RIGHT. Stop helping Trump spread false information.
For as much criticism as Iâve given the House Dems on this matter, I now tip my cap. The only reason this report (however redacted) is coming out is because of pressure from the House Dems. They kept it in the news cycle. They cranked a few gears to indicate that they would issue subpoenas (and likely will once we see what Barr has covered up). They forced this release and they had the public behind them. We, collectively, are bigger than Trump.
Barr promised the report in mid-April.
Itâs mid-April.
Maundy Thursday, the start of a four-day holiday. Just another timed stunt.
Everybody cyber-scream that the Gang of 8 has to receive the complete, unredacted report and all related materials NOW!!!
Even if it is redacted like that, it gives us political ammo and political capital. It proves that Trump is undertaking a cover up with Barr as his accomplice. Thatâs valuable information to provide to the American people. It gives Nancy all kinds of leverage to go after Trump and to give the green light to subpoena these folks on everything.
I donât just ânot trustâ Barr. I think he and DOJ leadership are corrupt. I want to see the unexpurgated version along with Muellerâs summaries.
ETA.
My skeptical nature is already telling me to approach this with a jaundiced side eye. I remember Iran Contra.
Oh, 100% agree. Outcomes of the report:
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Itâs mostly unredacted, not much new or surprising, and things kinda fizzle.
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Itâs mostly unredacted, there are significant new things, game on.
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Itâs heavily redacted, everyone suspects that the only reason for that is to protect the President, game on.
In other news,
Washington state passes a public option.
âThe proposal, which Inslee said is the first step toward universal health care, is geared in part to help stabilize the exchange, which has wrestled with double-digit premium increases and attempts by Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.â
AN ACT Relating to increasing the availability of quality, 2 affordable health coverage in the individual market; adding a new 3 section to chapter 43.71 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 42.56 4 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 41.05 RCW; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.
Yep⌠Friday of a holiday weekend sounds right to me. It will keep the viewership lower on Sunday talk shows as it is Easter Sunday.
Also expect airstrikes in Venezuela or some other military distractionâŚ
Will there be a picture version for Trump specially?
What I suspect is that Rosenstein agreed to help Barr help Trump buy a few weeks of time to set up the PR to defend himself from the reportâs findings. But Rosenstein would not go along with a total cover up as Trump most certainly would have wanted. Rosenstein is behaving unethically, but we should really look at this as Trump being in a weak position. If Trump wasnât able to suppress this report (and letâs be clear, it might take 2 or 3 steps to get the FULL report), it shows how weak he is. Go after him. It is possible to make Trump so unpopular that the GOP turns on him on key issues like appointments, like attacking NATO, Russian sanctions, the wall, immigration and others. It might even be possible to the GOP to be open to getting Miller out of there (they donât like him much btw). That saves children. As Democrats, thatâs what we should be about. Every little thing in a battle against tyranny and malevolence matters.
and I hope that wants Demâs get back in office they start the process to force the full report to be sent to them.