Already on Twitter thereâs a number of really damning things. And they knew it wasnât possible to cover it all up; hence the outrageous spinning. Trump says itâs a good day for him but itâs almost certainly a very, very bad one for him in Reality World.
[HARM to ONGOING MATTER]
Barrâs gloss on this report was an attempt at a whitewash. A quick review shows that the report is FAR less exculpatory than Barr maintained. Another note: The Presidentâs written responses to the Special Counselâs questions include, in almost every instance, âI have no recollection ofâŚâ or words to that effect.
Yep
The âongoing matterâ being the attempted whitewash of the reportâŚ
MSNBC is doing a very good job of examining this live.
Whatâs funny is Ari Melber is stuck back behind the main panel on this little desk.
I want to stress this again: do NOT focus on âcollusionâ and trying to undo Barrâs nonsense. I believe the facts will show we have a DEEPLY compromised president who is compromised 9 ways to Sunday BY FOREIGN POWERS NO LESS. THAT SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR IMPEACHMENT.
Also, itâs already pretty clear they over-redacted. Thereâs a section where itâs pretty clear they redacted information about Stone and Trump communicating as was testified to publicly by Cohen.
Which I think is kind of odd. I was expecting the 3rd party excuse to eb the primary method of washing this.
That is basically what one of the MSNBC analysts just saidâŚthere is definitely enough evidence for impeachment over obstruction.
Not to mention, Mueller obviously stopped at trumpâs red line of not investigating his business and pre-campaign activities and personal finances. Not surprising at this point, I think we knew that heâd observed that faux limit. But there was a time in 2017 when we thought that maybe Mueller was delving into those areas. Even if he did, I donât think thatâs much covered in the report (from a quick scan of the TOC).
I thought that Muellerâs team passed most of these types of cases off to other prosecutors (SDNY in this case)? Ultimately, that seems like an incredibly smart thing to have done.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! (page 50)
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So Russia hacked into state and local election offices and individuals as well as electronic polling stations, but Mueller didnât investigate it further.
Woo hoo! AG Barr has created the legal roadmap for Trumpâs Russian benefactors to secure Trump a second term! Thereâs nothing worrisome about a hostile foreign actor intervening on behalf of a presidential candidate, nor does that campaign need to feel any patriotic, constitutional, or legal duty to avoid being the recipient of that aid or to alert the proper authorities. Just donât put any quid pro quo in writing!
So now, each Democratic candidate needs to find their own foreign sponsor to assist their campaigns. Itâs all legal now! China has pretty deep pocketsâŚ
HOLY FUCK What Mueller actually said was following DOJ rules they couldnât indict or even fairly accuse without indicting. What they could do was clear him of obstruction and that they clearly did NOT do. He stands in the context accused by the investigation of obstruction. Josh has that out front. Thereâs your takeaway. Or at least your first big takeaway. He obstructed. It wasnât spin, this Barr shit. It was a whitewash. It was lying. Game on, Trump. The game is fucking on, you criminal son of a bitch.
ETA reading again I have to dial this back one half-click; they explicitly, by saying so, did not exonerate him. They said if they were to find him to have met the standard for prosecution there were difficult issues to resolve first. The growing consensus that this is a referral for impeachment seems the soundest takeaway of all.
Those lightly redacted sections must be very damning.
I have now read enough of the redacted Mueller report to come to the following conclusions:
- Barr should immediately resign for being a political hack and Trumpâs ass-monkey.
- The Democrats should go full steam ahead on obtaining the underlying supporting material that forms the basis of the Mueller report.
- The Democrats should press hard for the unredacted Mueller report for the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees.
All of the above conclusions were obtained prior to reading significant portions of the redacted report. Reading the report has very significantly reinforced those conclusions.
I believe Barr will go down in history as a legal insult. You want to hurt a lawyerâs feelings? Tell him heâs just like Barr. Lawyerâs might begin arguing that being dis-Barr-ed isnât such a bad thing.
Whats most shocking, is that imvho this was exactly Muellerâs mandate.