The Enduring Truths of the Mueller Report

[Oddball]

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]

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Prosecutors don't exonerate the subjects of their investigations.

They either indict, send a criminal referral, or STFU, as you should.

Muller's and your score is still ZERO....Suck on it.

 

[AntonToo]

Prosecutors don't exonerate the subjects of their investigations.

They either indict, send a criminal referral, or STFU, as you should.

DOJ says you are wrong, will not indict a sitting president.

They are de-facto above the law while in office and after his time in office Trump was impeached and criminaly idicted on so many counts that this criminal obstruction seemed moot to persue.

 

[Oddball]

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.

Did I say indict?...No, I said criminal referral, which could have been used by the HoR in impeachment proceedings....Which never happened on this issue, because after all the time and expense, Mueller and his clown care found NOTHING.

 

[AntonToo]

Did I say indict?...No, I said criminal referral

Do you understand that Mueller was a...wait for it...PROSECUTOR?

Against a person that can't be indicted is not permitted under DOJ guidelines.

 

[Oddball]

Do you understand that Mueller was a...wait for it...PROSECUTOR?

His refferal would be to...himself if he could actually indict Trump.

ZERO

Suck on it.

 

[Mac1958]

That truth is that the president and the people around him behave like gangsters.

Back in the Mob's heyday, many Italian kids were attracted to the Mafia because it made them feel "strong", and made them feel that they "belonged".

There are many benefits to being in a Mafia family. But you're still in a Mafia family. I just had no idea so many Americans didn't care about that.

 

[berg80]

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.

Spot on. Here is one aspect of that road map.

I. Order to McGahn to deny Trump’s order to fire Mueller

Obstructive act (p. 118): This effort “would qualify as an obstructive act if it had the natural tendency to constrain McGahn from testifying truthfully or to undermine his credibility as a potential witness[.]” There is “some evidence” that Trump genuinely believed press reports that he had ordered McGahn to fire Mueller were wrong. However, “[o]ther evidence cuts against that understanding of the president’s conduct”—and the special counsel lists a great deal more evidence on this latter point.

Nexus (p. 119): At this point “the Special Counsel’s use of a grand jury had been further confirmed by the return of several indictments.” Mueller’s office had indicated to Trump’s lawyers that it was investigating obstruction, and Trump knew that McGahn had already been interviewed by Mueller on the topic. “That evidence indicates the President’s awareness” that his efforts to fire Mueller were relevant to official proceedings. Trump “likely contemplated the ongoing investigation and any proceedings arising from it” in directing McGahn to create a false record of the earlier interaction.

Intent (p. 120): “Substantial evidence indicates that … the President acted for the purpose of influencing McGahn’s account in order to deflect or prevent further scrutiny” of Trump.

Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map

The Mueller report describes numerous instances in which President Trump may have obstructed justice. A few days ago, I threw together a quick spreadsheet on Twitter

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[Harry Dresden]

Back in the Mob's heyday, many Italian kids were attracted to the Mafia because it made them feel "strong", and made them feel that they "belonged".

There are many benefits to being in a Mafia family. But you're still in a Mafia family. I just had no idea so many Americans didn't care about that.

italian kids?....there were many other nationalities involved in that too....

 

[Dragonlady]

Did I say indict?...No, I said criminal referral, which could have been used by the HoR in impeachment proceedings....Which never happened on this issue, because after all the time and expense, Mueller and his clown care found NOTHING.

And that's a complete lie. Mueller indicted and got guilty pleas/verdicts on EVERY criminal defendant he prosecuted, including Paul Manafort who confessed to handing over Republican polling data to a Russian spy, and Michael Flynn who plead guilty to promising the Russian ambassador Trump would life sanctions after the Inauguration.

In fact, the Congress and the Senate both passed a nearly unanimous Resolution to prevent Trump from lifting Russian Sanctions without the Consent of the House and Senate. Putin was said to be furious, and Trump signed it under protest because it was veto proof.

But keep believing the lies that FOX and Trump tell you.

 

[Oddball]

And that's a complete lie. Mueller indicted and got guilty pleas/verdicts on EVERY criminal defendant he prosecuted, including Paul Manafort who confessed to handing over Republican polling data to a Russian spy, and Michael Flynn who plead guilty to promising the Russian ambassador Trump would life sanctions after the Inauguration.

All meant to squeeze them to fabricate anything they could hang on Trump, and still got ZERO....You STILL didn't get the main objective.

You lose...Suck on it.

 

[Dragonlady]

All meant to squeeze them to fabricate anything they could hang on Trump, and still got ZERO....You STILL didn't get the main objective.

You lose...Suck on it.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

This isn't a "win/lose" situation. There are no "winners", just losers like you who think this is a some sort of game you can win, when in reality, all you can do is lose everything you currently have.

 

[Oddball]

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Then you should stop it.

This isn't a "win/lose" situation. There are no "winners", just losers like you who think this is a some sort of game you can win, when in reality, all you can do is lose everything you currently have.

Spin from a LOOOOOOOOOSERRRRR!

 

[berg80]

Michael Flynn who plead guilty to promising the Russian ambassador Trump would life sanctions after the Inauguration.

A crime to which Mike pleaded guilty. Then the Barr DoJ stepped in to get Don's friend off the hook. Billy the Bagman tried to salvage his reputation by resigning when trump launched his scheme to steal the election but he'll forever be remembered for the duplicitous act of claiming Mueller exonerated trump.............which he absolutely did not.

 

[Dragonlady]

A crime to which Mike pleaded guilty. Then the Barr DoJ stepped in to get Don's friend off the hook. Billy the Bagman tried to salvage his reputation by resigning when trump launched his scheme to steal the election but he'll forever be remembered for the duplicitous act of claiming Mueller exonerated trump.............which he absolutely did not.

Flynn and his brother were involved in keeping the National Guard sitting in an airplane hangar instead of going yo the Capital on January 6th.

 

[Independent thinker]

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.

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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.

Be patient, it’s right around the corner. We’re going to get Trump, no matter how much lawfare it takes!