The Enduring Truths of the Mueller Report

[EMH]

It is too bad Robert Mueller is dead.

It would have given me great pleasure to watch him tried for the over 20 counts of treason he was guilty of when still alive...

 

[martybegan]

It is too bad Robert Mueller is dead.

It would have given me great pleasure to watch him tried for the over 20 counts of treason he was guilty of when still alive...

I would be happy to get some of them on just abuse of office to start.

Aim lower.

 

[Oddball]

Dumbass, what's this?

Mueller Indictments: A Breakdown of Charges and Defendants

Examine the specific indictments filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, detailing charges against foreign operators, campaign officials, and those who obstructed justice.

legalclarity.org

Where were the criminal referrals for the primary target, asshole?

Oh yeah, there were none...Suck on it.

 

[Oddball]

Does your mocking of an elderly man who spent his life in the service of this nation change a single thing about the damning nature of his report? No.

He was a corrupt spook who imprisoned innocent men to protect a mobster...So phuk off.

 

[berg80]

The second enduring truth of the Mueller Report is that Russian military intelligence, in addition to the active measures, also conducted a campaign of hacking emails associated with the Democratic campaign and dumping them into the public domain. As the report puts it, “The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign.” The Trump campaign showed a keen interest in the release of these documents and, at times, engaged directly with the entities through which the Russians were distributing them.

This is an uncomfortable truth for those who associate MAGA with patriotism and America First: Trump got help from the Russians. Whether that help ultimately mattered we will never know. But he knew he was getting help. His people knew he was getting help. They had every opportunity to behave like patriots and eschew help from foreign malign actors. And they passed every one of them up.

This simple truth—which Trump has not meaningfully contested to this day—hangs over every incident in which Trump tilts towards Russia in its current war with Ukraine. In the wake of the Mueller Report, Trump—with an able assist from then-Attorney General Bill Barr—crowed that the big message of the report was that there had been “no collusion.” And for criminal purposes, that was right, in a sense. Mueller and his team had been unable to find people associated with the Trump campaign who actively conspired with Russian espionage or influence operations.

And so the larger truth got lost—not because it wasn’t available and documented extensively but because it wasn’t a conclusion of law. It was just an inevitable conclusion based on reported and uncontested facts.

 

[martybegan]

The second enduring truth of the Mueller Report is that Russian military intelligence, in addition to the active measures, also conducted a campaign of hacking emails associated with the Democratic campaign and dumping them into the public domain. As the report puts it, “The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign.” The Trump campaign showed a keen interest in the release of these documents and, at times, engaged directly with the entities through which the Russians were distributing them.

This is an uncomfortable truth for those who associate MAGA with patriotism and America First: Trump got help from the Russians. Whether that help ultimately mattered we will never know. But he knew he was getting help. His people knew he was getting help. They had every opportunity to behave like patriots and eschew help from foreign malign actors. And they passed every one of them up.

This simple truth—which Trump has not meaningfully contested to this day—hangs over every incident in which Trump tilts towards Russia in its current war with Ukraine. In the wake of the Mueller Report, Trump—with an able assist from then-Attorney General Bill Barr—crowed that the big message of the report was that there had been “no collusion.” And for criminal purposes, that was right, in a sense. Mueller and his team had been unable to find people associated with the Trump campaign who actively conspired with Russian espionage or influence operations.

And so the larger truth got lost—not because it wasn’t available and documented extensively but because it wasn’t a conclusion of law. It was just an inevitable conclusion based on reported and uncontested facts.

I guess "enduring truth" is now progspeak for "bullshit opinion"

 

[Oddball]

The second enduring truth of the Mueller Report is that Russian military intelligence, in addition to the active measures, also conducted a campaign of hacking emails associated with the Democratic campaign and dumping them into the public domain. As the report puts it, “The release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign.” The Trump campaign showed a keen interest in the release of these documents and, at times, engaged directly with the entities through which the Russians were distributing them.

This is an uncomfortable truth for those who associate MAGA with patriotism and America First: Trump got help from the Russians. Whether that help ultimately mattered we will never know. But he knew he was getting help. His people knew he was getting help. They had every opportunity to behave like patriots and eschew help from foreign malign actors. And they passed every one of them up.

This simple truth—which Trump has not meaningfully contested to this day—hangs over every incident in which Trump tilts towards Russia in its current war with Ukraine. In the wake of the Mueller Report, Trump—with an able assist from then-Attorney General Bill Barr—crowed that the big message of the report was that there had been “no collusion.” And for criminal purposes, that was right, in a sense. Mueller and his team had been unable to find people associated with the Trump campaign who actively conspired with Russian espionage or influence operations.

And so the larger truth got lost—not because it wasn’t available and documented extensively but because it wasn’t a conclusion of law. It was just an inevitable conclusion based on reported and uncontested facts.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Does your mocking of an elderly man who spent his life in the service of this nation change a single thing about the damning nature of his report? No.

The damning nature of his report is a figment of your indoctrinated imagination.

 

[berg80]

The damning nature of his report is a figment of your indoctrinated imagination.

The third enduring truth of the Mueller Report is that there were repeated and extensive contacts between Russian entities purporting to represent the government and officials of the Trump campaign. These contacts ranged a great deal, from the direct approach in Trump Tower with an offer to senior campaign leadership of assistance to the suggestion made by a young campaign hanger-on to a foreign diplomat that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton to protracted negotiations over the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow to Paul Manafort’s work with a known Russian intelligence operative and on a behalf Ukraine’s pro-Russian former president.

The sheer sweep of the contacts, which require more than 100 pages to detail, speaks to the magnitude of the betrayal. Some of them involved running a campaign. Some of that business involved back channel discussions with leadership. Some of them involved building buildings. Some of them involved hiring hackers to recover allegedly missing Hillary Clinton emails. I could go on. The salient point is that a man who would be president surrounded himself with people actively doing business, and very much open for business, with Putin’s Russia. He knew this. He supervised it. He participated in it. And he lied about it publicly.

The strange affinity Trump has for Putin and Russia remains hard to understand. I do not purport to have an explanation for it. But the mystery is the same one as it was then: A mesh of contacts and mixing of affairs of state and affairs of business in such fashion that one cannot tell which is which or which is driving which. And of course it has spread. Trump now engages this way with the Gulf monarchies too.

But the fundamental pattern is all laid out in the Mueller Report—and it predates Trump’s presidency by some time.

You can't factually refute a single thing in the article.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

The third enduring truth of the Mueller Report is that there were repeated and extensive contacts between Russian entities purporting to represent the government and officials of the Trump campaign. These contacts ranged a great deal, from the direct approach in Trump Tower with an offer to senior campaign leadership of assistance to the suggestion made by a young campaign hanger-on to a foreign diplomat that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton to protracted negotiations over the building of a Trump Tower in Moscow to Paul Manafort’s work with a known Russian intelligence operative and on a behalf Ukraine’s pro-Russian former president.

The sheer sweep of the contacts, which require more than 100 pages to detail, speaks to the magnitude of the betrayal. Some of them involved running a campaign. Some of that business involved back channel discussions with leadership. Some of them involved building buildings. Some of them involved hiring hackers to recover allegedly missing Hillary Clinton emails. I could go on. The salient point is that a man who would be president surrounded himself with people actively doing business, and very much open for business, with Putin’s Russia. He knew this. He supervised it. He participated in it. And he lied about it publicly.

The strange affinity Trump has for Putin and Russia remains hard to understand. I do not purport to have an explanation for it. But the mystery is the same one as it was then: A mesh of contacts and mixing of affairs of state and affairs of business in such fashion that one cannot tell which is which or which is driving which. And of course it has spread. Trump now engages this way with the Gulf monarchies too.

But the fundamental pattern is all laid out in the Mueller Report—and it predates Trump’s presidency by some time.

You can't factually refute a single thing in the article.

It’s an article full of feelings.

 

[berg80]

It’s an article full of feelings.

You need to believe that because you can't factually refute anything in the article. If you could you would.

 

[WEATHER53]

There is but One Truth
Despite being armed to the teeth with money and staff, an eager to nail Trump Mueller , after months and months was unable to conclude and produce any written conclusion on Trumps guilt . Now cartoon kiddie libs loons but…but…butted to this day that the words of guilt were there but Muller just did not see them nor conclude such even though he wrote such. What incredible pretzel twisting

 

[eagle7-31]

Finally, the fourth enduring truth of the Mueller Report comes from Volume 2 of the document—which covers not Trump’s dealings with Russia but his efforts to obstruct the Mueller investigation itself. That truth is that the president and the people around him behave like gangsters.

Mueller never, of course, says this quite this bluntly. He describes, rather, “potentially obstructive acts” and archly refers to “a series of actions by the President that related to the Russian-interference investigations, including the President’s conduct towards the law enforcement officials overseeing the investigations and the witnesses to relevant events.”

Volume 2, you may recall, catalogues a number of incidents in which Trump engaged in activity that raised questions under the obstruction statute—activity like dangling pardons to people who could hurt him, issuing pardons, tweeting reassurances to keep people from cooperating, attacking witnesses who cooperate, firing officials, and threats to fire officials or crack down on the investigation.

The Situation: The Enduring Truths of the Mueller Report

There are four of them.

www.lawfaremedia.org

trump devotees have never accepted the demonstrable truths revealed by Mueller. They prefer to remain in the comfort of their mental hidey holes, prepared for them by Bill Barr's ludicrous declaration Mueller exonerated trump. He did not. The failure to discover enough evidence to show a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia (hampered by trump's obstruction of justice) has overshadowed the damning evidence he revealed. Among them, trump's traitorous actions which no other public, political figure could have survived.

Still pushing the phony Russia hoax eh? LOL

 

[berg80]

Still pushing the phony Russia hoax eh? LOL

Still refusing to read a summary of the Mueller report's findings eh?

 

[berg80]

There is but One Truth
Despite being armed to the teeth with money and staff, an eager to nail Trump Mueller , after months and months was unable to conclude and produce any written conclusion on Trumps guilt . Now cartoon kiddie libs loons but…but…butted to this day that the words of guilt were there but Muller just did not see them nor conclude such even though he wrote such. What incredible pretzel twisting

That is a disingenuous mis-characterization of the findings.

 

[blackhawk]

SSDDTDS.

 

[AntonToo]

Where were the criminal referrals for the primary target, asshole?

Oh yeah, there were none...Suck on it.

Right here dummy:

Special Counsel Mueller declined to exonerate President Trump and instead detailed multiple episodes in which he engaged in obstructive conduct​

• The Mueller Report states that if the Special Counsel’s Office felt they could clear the president of wrongdoing, they would have said so. Instead, the Report explicitly states that it “does not exonerate” the President[10] and explains that the Office of Special Counsel “accepted” the Department of Justice policy that a sitting President cannot be indicted.[11]
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• The Mueller report details multiple episodes in which there is evidence that the President obstructed justice. The pattern of conduct and the manner in which the President sought to impede investigations—including through one-on-one meetings with senior officials—is damning to the President.
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• • In June 2017 President Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to order the firing of the Special Counsel after press reports that Mueller was investigating the President for obstruction of justice;[12] months later Trump asked McGahn to falsely refute press accounts reporting this directive and create a false paper record on this issue – all of which McGahn refused to do.[13]
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  • After National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was fired in February 2017 for lying to FBI investigators about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, Trump cleared his office for a one-on-one meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and asked Comey to “let [Flynn] go;” he also asked then-Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland to draft an internal memo saying Trump did not direct Flynn to call Kislyak, which McFarland did not do because she did not know whether that was true.[14]
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  • In July 2017, the President directed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to instruct the Attorney General to limit Mueller’s investigation, a step the Report asserted “was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct.”[15]
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  • In 2017 and 2018, the President asked the Attorney General to “un-recuse” himself from the Mueller inquiry, actions from which a “reasonable inference” could be made that “the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role and could shield the President from the ongoing Russia Investigation.”[16]
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  • The Report raises questions about whether the President, by and through his private attorneys, floated the possibility of pardons for the purpose of influencing the cooperation of Flynn, Manafort, and an unnamed person with law enforcement.[17]

Key Findings of the Mueller Report | ACS

www.acslaw.org

 

[berg80]

Right here dummy:

Special Counsel Mueller declined to exonerate President Trump and instead detailed multiple episodes in which he engaged in obstructive conduct​

• The Mueller Report states that if the Special Counsel’s Office felt they could clear the president of wrongdoing, they would have said so. Instead, the Report explicitly states that it “does not exonerate” the President[10] and explains that the Office of Special Counsel “accepted” the Department of Justice policy that a sitting President cannot be indicted.[11]
• 
  
• The Mueller report details multiple episodes in which there is evidence that the President obstructed justice. The pattern of conduct and the manner in which the President sought to impede investigations—including through one-on-one meetings with senior officials—is damning to the President.
• 
  
• • In June 2017 President Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to order the firing of the Special Counsel after press reports that Mueller was investigating the President for obstruction of justice;[12] months later Trump asked McGahn to falsely refute press accounts reporting this directive and create a false paper record on this issue – all of which McGahn refused to do.[13]
  • 
    
  • After National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was fired in February 2017 for lying to FBI investigators about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, Trump cleared his office for a one-on-one meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and asked Comey to “let [Flynn] go;” he also asked then-Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland to draft an internal memo saying Trump did not direct Flynn to call Kislyak, which McFarland did not do because she did not know whether that was true.[14]
  • 
    
  • In July 2017, the President directed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to instruct the Attorney General to limit Mueller’s investigation, a step the Report asserted “was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct.”[15]
  • 
    
  • In 2017 and 2018, the President asked the Attorney General to “un-recuse” himself from the Mueller inquiry, actions from which a “reasonable inference” could be made that “the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role and could shield the President from the ongoing Russia Investigation.”[16]
  • 
    
  • The Report raises questions about whether the President, by and through his private attorneys, floated the possibility of pardons for the purpose of influencing the cooperation of Flynn, Manafort, and an unnamed person with law enforcement.[17]

Key Findings of the Mueller Report | ACS

www.acslaw.org

I've just been debating with a friend of mine about Mueller and his report. I should note he's a trumple. It's astonishing what right wing media has those people believing. In his case that Mueller was a partisan hack doing the bidding of Dem's even though he was a Repub assigned to his duties by a Repub.

 

[Dragonlady]

Yet not one single criminal referral came from that corrupt clown car.

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Only because a sitting President cannot be indicted. Never forget that Mueller wasn't allowed to indict Trump so he didn't even suggest doing so, but he did create a roadmap for impeachment on Obstruction charges, among other things.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I've just been debating with a friend of mine about Mueller and his report. I should note he's a trumple. It's astonishing what right wing media has those people believing. In his case that Mueller was a partisan hack doing the bidding of Dem's even though he was a Repub assigned to his duties by a Repub.

yea im sure you have friend like that....