Mueller report thread - Mueller testimony July 24

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So nobody is going to be indicted for some sort of conspiracy?

How are they going to spin that?

The report is likely to have indictments in it

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Kinda speaks to how low Trumpers have set that bar that Mueller not arresting Trump or his son is being treated as a win

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Kinda speaks to how low Trumpers have set that bar that Mueller not arresting Trump or his son is being treated as a win

lol you guys are so pathetic in defeat.

I just...like I dont get it. We dont know what the report says.

Which is what I’m saying. This report is likely to be damning but the Sanchez of the world are treating Mueller not arresting Trump here and now as a “win”.

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Can we actually read his this f**king report before we declare if Trump was helped or hurt by this?

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Jacobin and Jfern are honestly worse then the Trump supporters here. Good job on acting like douchebags guys

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This is blatantly whitewashing by Barr also obstruction is ultimately a decision of congress so they should make the ruling not Barr

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DELUSIONAL DEMS are devastated by the presidents exoneration. I’m sure they’ll start up a new witch hunt soon tho. The average voter is over the entire Russia collusion/ trump. Is illegitimate bullsh**t. Economy is booming and so are re-election chances

The economy is no different now then it was in Obama’s second term

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Jesus Christ. Democrats you literally have a wealth of issues to attack him on. His odious economic policies, his trade war, his tax cuts for the rich, his f***ing wall, his obsession with keeping the minimum wage low.

Why do you need to attack him on Russia when you can literally attack him on any of these?

Can dark red atlas stop parroting the blue atlas tactic of equating what people say her, on Twitter, and pundits on tv with “the Democrats”? The democrats as an official party have not been attacking him on Russia as hard as republicans would of done had this shoe been on the other foot. This reminds me of when people attacked the Democrats in 2018 for being Trump obsessed when statistically he was mentioned less in attack ads then Obama was in either 10 or 14

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Cough
https://mobile.twitter.com/mkraju/status/1110996095369445376

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NBC polling is backing the CNN poll that found the Barr letter has not changed anyone’s mind
https://mobile.twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1112362206128156672

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https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1113806696097505281

So they did collude but were too stupid to know what was going on?

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So the DOJ has put a damage control statement and I can’t figure out what they are saying https://mobile.twitter.com/mkraju/status/1113824765670772738

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The full report will be out soon.  Perhaps we can spike the narrative before hand so then if and when it turns out to be something far less than what people are saying, there will be cries of "cover up" and calls for a "new investigation".

There were NO indictments.  Zip, zero, zilch.  The full report will be released soon enough.  Good Lord, people waited longer for the Warren Report, and its release sparked a cottage industry of conspiracy theorists that continues to this day.

Will this report say Trump acted like a yucky poo-poo head?  Probably.  Will what's there justify more investigations, let alone impeachment?  I doubt it, and everyone here doubts it too.  If it does, well, have at it, but what people are trying to do, ultimately, is define Obstruction of Justice in a way that criminalizes Trump's normal and legal use of his Presidential powers, and those powers include the right to fire the FBI Director.

Do I like everything about Donald Trump?  Lord, no!  I would not want my son to have Trump's persona (although I might wish my son to have Trump's work ethic).  He says things and does things at times that, while entertaining (to a point), have me scratching my head.  I'm a "less is more" individual in many walks of life, and I usually restrain the urges I have to fire off at people because I know once I say something I can't take it back.  That's not Trump at all.  

Do I like everything politically about Donald Trump?  Again:  Lord, no!  He's right on immigration and trade, and I appreciate his commitment to social conservatism, even if his heart isn't always in it.  I certainly think he's been too much the Freedom Caucus Republican, and while I see that as an alliance of convenience, those are the folks who do the most to reward the wealthiest and trash the safety net.  While I agree with a good deal of Trump's questioning of many institutions, I don't wish to trash those institutions to the point where they are unsalvagable.

No, I don't like everything about Donald Trump, but I detest "The Resistance".  I consider "The Resistance" to be downright anti-American; they would have America fail if it brings down Trump.  And the events of the post-election period of 2016 has convinced me that there is a coalition of powerful elites who cast their own veto on Trump's election and are bound and determined to undo his election.  When nearly every single newspaper in America comes out to oppose Trump, when the mainstream media abandon any pretense of objectivity toward Trump, and when they do this REGARDLESS OF THE FACTS, we have before us the darkness that democracy will actually die in, if it, indeed, is killed.  When the majority of a House of Congress devotes its entire resources removing a President, and with developing false narratives to justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal, then we have something other than what the Founding Fathers indicated.  Something frightening.  Something more worthy of the failed states from which the people seeking to crash our borders come from than from an advanced and supposedly stable democracy that Trump, by the way, did not destabilize.

If Trump's that bad, then make the case for it in an election.  Convince people you're right and vote him out of office.  I'm all for that.  Let the Congress work on legislation, and not on political investigations disguised as "oversight".  But let's stop the insanity.  Because it IS possible for the GOP to be even more of a "resistance" if the Democrats are voted in.  Would THAT be good for America?  Somehow, I think not.

Several things FB
1) as I’ve said previously Trump firing Comey to influence an investigation Trump himself is implicated in is not a “normal function of the presidency” and to argue that somehow criminalizing said abuse for future presidents is somehow bad for the country is asinine
2) you want you’re son to have Trump’s “work ethic”?! You want him watching tv and tweeting all day?
3) everything you said about the resistance describes the tea party and Trump himself under Obama
4) lastly you condemn the media for being harsh on Trump yet you in a previous paragraph pointed out what a piece of garbage he is but put up with it for partisan reasons. Well why the hell should any media that isn’t rw partisan and thus have no reason to avoid Trump’s crap just ignore Trump’s crap?!?!

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Better to be Biden then Trump. Like freakin really? The pure fantasy world you rwers build that can find grandpa long hug morally objectionable but not Donald “grab em by the pussy”, 23 sexual assault and harrasments, accused of rape by ex-wife, bragged to Howard Stern about walking in on underaged girls at his beauty pageant, and talked about how he’d bagged his daughter if they weren’t related Trump is unbelievable

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https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116696849853886465
FYI this guy a) was fired from the Obama administration in 2010 b) is being charged for lying to the fbi (which Trump said is no big deal when Flynn got it), and c) is being charged for lying about work he did with Paul Manafort

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So it’s coming out Holy Thursday?
A reading according to Maddow
“After the supper was over Mueller took a 400 page report and gave quick blessing. He then distributed across the nation saying ‘take this all of you and read it. For this my report which I have written up for you’”.

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I'm not expecting anything huge tomorrow. But i do find it odd how Trump seems to be attacking Mueller and his team again on twitter again.

Odd is an understatement. It's bizzare. Has everyone forgotten how he claimed the report was a total exoneration days ago?

I think I have your answer
https://mobile.twitter.com/dcpoll/status/1117450356697587712

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P*ss off Barr we don’t need your input

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An to the shock of no one Barr gave the WH a briefing on the report despite saying to congress he wouldn’t per NYT

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WTF Nadler just announced he’s been informed that Congress won’t be getting a the mueller report until after Barr’s press conference
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1118639594692644864

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WTF Nadler just announced he’s been informed that Congress won’t be getting a the mueller report until after Barr’s press conference
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1118639594692644864

Why is that a big deal?

You seriously don’t see something messed up about Barr holding a press conference on a report that neither the congress or anyone has read yet? It’s politics. He’s going to put a spin out for Fox to run with throughout the morning so when the ugly stuff hits later in the afternoon the narrative has been set

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Honestly should the press even cover the press conference?

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https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/status/1118676734344355841

Going by the Washington Post, it seems like Barr will be going for the "too naive/too stupid to know better" defense tomorrow.

F**king ridiculous

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https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/status/1118676734344355841

Going by the Washington Post, it seems like Barr will be going for the "too naive/too stupid to know better" defense tomorrow.

You have to admit, Trump has laid a huge amount of very impressive persuasive groundwork for his upcoming "I am to much of a sub-moronic blithering idiot to know I was committing treasonous crimes" defense. I suppose he doesn't really care that it makes each and every one of his supporters and defenders look like malign fools.

Does Trump not realize how bad he’ll get it from late night comedy if this is his/Barr’s defense?

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And here we go
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1118871696352608257