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.