actually, by Trump average minion standards of obsequiousness, Barr comes off well on the high end. I mean, listen to Neilsen (right before) and especially Pence (right after) to see what real ass-kissing looks like.
Barr didn’t praise Trump’s leadership – basically, all he said was that the Emergency Declaration was legal.
Schiff: Mueller May Have Found Conduct That’s Compromising, Damaging To Nat’l Security
Considering the indictments involving security personnel, I’m extremely confident that Schiff’s statement is correct.
C’mon, be fair - it’s not like Donnie has any control over his own lawyers!
Compromise of the national security is well within the committee’s purview. If you’re going to pretend you’re too idiotic to know what compromise means in this context, at least don’t confuse compromise with comprise FFS.
The fact that as of 0630 EDT there are still no tweets from tRump, has me hoping that there is some damage to the administration in the report.
But there is very little purpose in speculating at this point, although I understand human nature, and this is something we have been anticipating for some time. (We will hear/read the details in due time, or not.) If we were hoping that this would get rid of the Orange Menace in the White House in one fell swoop, and save us from our ongoing national nightmare, I suspect that we will be sadly disappointed. We need to focus on doing so in the upcoming election, and hope we all survive until then.
By all means, continue the investigations, and let the public know what is found as it is found and verified, but the system as designed, and certainly as it has evolved, gives the executive branch a huge, and probably unwise, amount of power if it chooses to use it. One thing that the constitution failed to consider was a totally corrupt president supported by a totally corrupt party covering up their own corruption, although I am at a loss to think of how they might have prevented it. On the other hand, they did warn us about political parties. (We just didn’t listen.)
I an sure this is the real fact of the matter and should read:
Many Republicans have long abetted Russia as a significant threat to American interests.
I’m now wondering if treason would qualify.
Only if one defines treason as acts against the Republican party itself (and not merely emphasizing its extreme rightward tendencies). They might have a small problem with Trump’s overall involvements being seen in the light of day, but even then they are too afraid of his base (which they have cultivated over decades as their own) to do anything other than protect him (and themselves) in any way possible. Our only hope is to make that impossible.
Words like “may,” “might,” “possible,” etc. have lost their charm for me now.
Treason is fucking right. The reason we need to take back the government totally is to visit justice on those dirty Russia loving pigs. Every one of them.
Oh dear. My mistake. I assume you have spell check/auto word fill turned off? I usually swear at my mistakes, but am a bit lenient to others. You might try it.
You can bet your bottom dollar on that. Donald Trump knows no loyalty.
He can’t even sing the National Anthem.
Trump outed a CIA asset to high ranking Russians during a meeting 9n tje Oval Office.
'Nuf said
Schiff sounds like he’s preparing to be disappointed.
You assume that things like “high crimes” mean the same thing now as they did back when giants strode the earth and used words that had definite connotations. Unlike, say, “well-regulated militia” which can’t mean anything like it did when the Founding Fathers carved them in the Temple of the NRA. Oh, wait.
On another tack, Schiff said
a broader body of conduct that is deeply compromising to national security but not a criminal matter,
Why are those two things not equal? Aren’t there any statutes that demand some kind of sanction for compromising national security? Otherwise, Jonathan Pollard, Aldrich Ames, John Walker, Chelsea Manning et al., shouldn’t have been imprisoned, and all those generals who use gmail accounts and hang out with Putin would still have their retirement ranks and privileges.
See Mueller May Drop Second Report That Can’t Be Buried for more details of that which Rep Schiff is obliquely referring.
I noticed that statement as well. My opinion is that McConnell is deeply involved with #TeamTreason (I believe he knew of the conspiracy when he created the precedent wrt Garland) and is trying to position himself and fellow Republicans in a futile belief they can manage a successful cover up.
With Dems in the House holding multiple hearings per week for months I doubt that strategy will be successful. 
Cc @jeof @chezzer14
Mr. Schiff, I am not on any Congressional committees or a lawyer but I am betting the farm that this is so.
Mind blown. That’s probably so.