“Mr. Mueller, if this had been any other person, a private citizen perhaps, who engaged in these actions, would you have recommended charging him with obstruction?”
“Yes.”
The End.
ETA: To be fair, he’d probably answer that it would be inappropriate to answer yes or no, but he MUST be asked that question in a public hearing. MUST.
This morning it was “NO COLLUSION!!! NO COLLUSION!!! NO COLLUSION!!! NO COLLUSION!!!”
to this evening’s
“NO COVER-UP!!! NO COVER-UP!!! NO COVER-UP!!! NO COVER-UP!!! NO COVER-UP!!!”
The obstuction was too successful to be proven in court.
Of our elaborate plans
The end
Of everything that stands
The end
No safety or surprise
The end
I’ll never look into your eyes
Again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger’s hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
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#impeachment
Undercuts? That’s a full blown Joni Ernst castration…
I really don’t understand the–to use a current favorite term–predicate of the whole investigation. Mueller declined to make a determination about Trump obstructing justice essentially because of DOJ guidelines against indicting a sitting president. Wouldn’t the same guidelines then apply to the conspiracy charge? So Mueller is apparently charged with carrying out a criminal investigation into the president in which he believes he is precluded from filing charges even if they are warranted.
This is really nuts. Either Mueller misinterpreted his mandate or this sort of special counsel investigation is a total farce.
Only GOPers get to have special/independent counsels who are partisan shills. IOKIYAR. We Dems/liberals have to make do with ones who are actually honest.
Regarding… unless voters are willing to vote out Trump or any senators who is happy with what happened today, then the impeachment process won’t work.
Bieing Litch! Boycott the pressers!
Wonder if she is one of the current staff who worried about the wrath of Trump. She admitted lying and knew that Trump lied.
Barr has shown himself to be a whitewash bullshit artist. This isn’t the first time he’s done this. The surname “Barr” should go down in infamy, similar to “Arnold” as in “Benedict”.
I think we’ll be hearing a lot from Nadler and Schiff for a long time now. Trump is going to reap his reward.
So we have a crook in the White House who’s just crooked enough to get away with it. And a whole Republican party of chicken shits, enablers and coconspirators, who need to be thrown out in their entirety.
Now we are going to see Trump conduct a wide ranging, scorched earth campaign on the remaining investigations, and any yet to start or get seriously off the launching pad. He’ll go after the House incessantly, claiming eveything they do is an offshoot of a report that cleared him, so why are they holding hearings, gathering evidence and issuing subpoenas? Similarly he’ll be putting pressure on SDNY and other Federal District regional offices to shut down their efforts, albeit maybe he’ll be smart enough when dealing with those people to conduct it through intermediaries and surrogates.
In other words, he did not obstruct justice but it wasn’t for lack of trying.
Yeah the whole idea of an independent counsel was to take it out of the political hands, to avoid even appearance of bias and corruption, so his handing the decision to Barr to make seems to pretty much defeat the whole purpose. He misunderstood, he’s too cowed by authority if they’re Republicans (didn’t hesitate to speak right up when he thought Buzzfeed got something wrong, I noticed), not sure which but the whole thing seems screwy at best.