I don't see how it's cognitive dissonance. Where is my inconsistency? Release the full ******* report or you're hiding something. It's that simple.
“We haven’t really seen the underlying report, but I have some suspicions that the reason he boiled this down the way he did is because it’s not very attractive. [Mueller’s] words are very different than Barr’s, I suspect.”
You really don't see the ridiculous lengths you take to desperately cling to your hope, do you?
It's over. Best to admit it now, you know you'll feel better if you can only shake off this demon that haunts you.
Democrats Skeptical After Trump’s Attorney General Exonerates Him
Robert Mueller didn’t reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice. But the attorney general went ahead and absolved him anyway.
Barr took it upon himself, with the help of Rosenstein, to come to the conclusion to let Trump off the hook. Matt Miller, who served as the Justice Department spokesman during President Barack Obama’s administration, questioned why Barr felt it necessary to do so.
This "leaves it to the Attorney General" language is so strange in that it seems to imply Barr had to reach a conclusion, when in fact he didn't. He could've just passed on Mueller's findings, but decided to put his thumb on the scale after a 48 hour review of the facts.
Rather than settle matters, Barr’s conclusion is making Democrats in Congress even more intent on obtaining the fuller Mueller report. The fact that the special counsel didn’t exonerate Trump ― but his hand-picked attorney general did ― won’t satisfy voters
“It is unacceptable that, after Special Counsel Mueller spent 22 months meticulously uncovering this evidence, Attorney General Barr made a decision not to charge the President in under 48 hours. The Attorney General did so without even interviewing the President,” they said.
Democrats have been united in saying they want to see Mueller’s full report and the supporting documentation. Nadler said at a press conference Sunday evening that, if necessary, he would use
subpoena power to do so.
On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in a call with her caucus,
vowed to oppose any classified briefings on the report. She said she believed any briefing to members of Congress must be unclassified so that lawmakers would be free to talk about the findings publicly.
In a joint statement Sunday, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) also raised questioned about Barr’s decision to exonerate Trump and questioned his neutrality:
“The fact that Special Counsel Mueller’s report does not exonerate the president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public without any further delay,” they said. “Given Mr. Barr’s
public record of bias against the Special Counsel’s inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report.”
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) tweeted that if the Mueller report truly does exonerate Trump, there seems to be no reason that Republicans would object to letting the public see it.
Trump had tried to pressure Comey into
dropping the investigation into his former national
security director Michael Flynn, who ended up pleading guilty to a felony count of lying to the FBI. The president also has acknowledged that the Russia investigation
was on his mind when he decided to fire Comey.
Mueller’s 22-month investigation resulted in charges against
34 people. Federal and state prosecutors are still pursuing
about a dozen probes that largely grew out of Mueller’s work, and Congress continues to look into matters surrounding Trump.
If you think this is the end of it you're an idiot or you think we are idiots.
