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[Thread] All right. I just finished the Mueller Report. I'm going to combine the most shocking and important revelations in one thread. Long and short: there was collusion, there was obstruction, Donald Trump needs to be removed from office. Immediately. 1/
Mueller found that Russia was actively interested in electing Trump president, as early as his announcement, if not earlier. Operations began just as Trump Campaign took off. Obvious the two are parallel organizations that occasionally worked together, had the same goals. 2/
Multiple members of the Trump Campaign were approached by Russia. They were receptive sometimes, other times they just proceeded with knowledge that Russia was interfering on their behalf. They were not ignorant of the fact that Russia was interfering, not at all. 3/
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Thread by @JYSexton: "All right. I just finished the Mueller Report. I'm going to combine the most shocking and important revelations in one thread. Long and shor […]"
Mueller found that Russia was actively interested in electing Trump president, as early as his announcement, if not earlier. Operations began just as Trump Campaign took off. Obvious the two are parallel organizations that occasionally worked together, had the same goals. 2/
Multiple members of the Trump Campaign were approached by Russia. They were receptive sometimes, other times they just proceeded with knowledge that Russia was interfering on their behalf. They were not ignorant of the fact that Russia was interfering, not at all. 3/
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Thread by @JYSexton: "All right. I just finished the Mueller Report. I'm going to combine the most shocking and important revelations in one thread. Long and shor […]"
The Mueller report isn’t actually close to a full account of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller. That’s not just because of the redactions. When he was hired, Mr. Mueller inherited supervision of a F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation. That is the missing piece of the Mueller report.
President Trump may claim “exoneration” on a narrowly defined criminal coordination charge. But a counterintelligence investigation can yield something even more important: an intelligence assessment of how likely it is that someone — in this case, the president — is acting, wittingly or unwittingly, under the influence of or in collaboration with a foreign power. Was Donald Trump a knowing or unknowing Russian asset, used in some capacity to undermine our democracy and national security?
The public Mueller report alone provides enough evidence to worry that America’s own national security interests may not be guiding American foreign policy.
The counterintelligence investigation is not necessarily complete, but from the glimpses we see in the Mueller report, it should set off very serious national security alarm bells.
An intelligence assessment makes two determinations: a conclusion about the type of influence a foreign power may have over an individual and the degree of confidence in that conclusion. For example, when Mr. Trump boasted to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office that he had fired the F.B.I. director, it raised only the possibility — a “circumstantial inference,” as it’s called in counterintelligence — that the president was wittingly working on behalf of the Russians.
This apparent desire to please these officials indicates a high level of Russian influence and, in the context of other actions that pleased Mr. Putin, like his sudden decision to withdraw American troops from Syria — could support a modest to high level of confidence in that conclusion.
After nearly two years of waiting, we have a redacted version of the report of special counsel Robert Mueller. A searchable copy can be found and examine here.
Read the Mueller Report: Searchable Document and Index
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Although it will take time to digest the entire redacted report, here are five critical takeaways:
1. Do Not Trust Anything Attorney General William Barr Has Said About the Report. Read the Report Yourself. ...
2. Mueller Did Not Find There Was No Evidence of Conspiracy. Nor Did He Make Any Finding on the Misnomer of Collusion. ...
3. Mueller Declined to Make a Formal Finding on Obstruction Because of the Justice Department’s Policy Against Indicting a Sitting President. Nonetheless, He Concluded the President Could Not Be Exonerated of Obstruction. ...
4. Trump Did Not Cooperate Fully With the Special Counsel. ...
5. Mueller Did Not Request Barr to Draw His Own Conclusions on Obstruction. That Decision Should Be Left to Congress by Means of an Impeachment Investigation. ...
So it turns out that, indeed, President Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not “totally” or “completely,” as he claimed. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III didn’t reach a conclusion about whether Trump committed crimes of obstruction of justice — in part because, while a sitting president, Trump can’t be prosecuted under long-standing Justice Department directives, and in part because of “difficult issues” raised by “the President’s actions and intent.” Those difficult issues involve, among other things, the potentially tricky interplay between the criminal obstruction laws and the president’s constitutional authority, and the difficulty in proving criminal intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Still, the special counsel’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/read-the-mueller-report/?utm_term=.a22bc011c4fa (report) is damning. Mueller couldn’t say, with any “confidence,” that the president of the United States is not a criminal. He said, stunningly, that “if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.” Mueller did not so state.
That’s especially damning because the ultimate issue shouldn’t be — and isn’t — whether the president committed a criminal act. As https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-conway-trump-is-guilty--of-being-unfit-for-office/2019/03/26/0b5f851e-4ffd-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html?utm_term=.92a7e1a2e5e4 (I wrote) not long ago, Americans should expect far more than merely that their president not be provably a criminal. In fact, the Constitution demands it.
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The Mueller Report is not vindication or exoneration of Donald Trump. It paints Trump as a president who engaged in a coverup, attempted to obstruct justice, directed others to obstruct justice, and repeatedly lied to the American people. The very best and most honest summary Barr and Trump supporters can get from the report is that the president of the United States is not a foreign agent for Russia and is merely disloyal to the nation he’s sworn to protect. Run on that in 2020.
William Barr is supposed to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. In delivering his summary of the report, which angered many on the Special Counsel’s team, Barr acted as Donald Trump’s advocate. He did not deliver an honest summary of Robert Mueller’s findings. Barr delivered propaganda. He’s no more of an honest advocate for the law than Sean Hannity is a journalist.
Knowing the report was a near total disaster for Trump, Barr set out an agenda to gaslight the American people over the findings. He released a summary stating “no collusion” and that the Special Counsel left it to him to rule on obstruction, which he said he couldn’t find any. He let that hang in the air for three weeks. He consulted with the White House so they could work on the propaganda they’d release before and after the report’s unveiling. He held a press conference the morning of the release before anyone could see the report. He released it on CD Rom, which he may as well done on 8-track. He released it right before Easter so the nation’s attention span would be very short. The only people who fall for this are Trump supporters and the idiots at Fox News.
What you did not find in the Barr summary was that Donald Trump tried to sabotage the investigation and his staff defied him. After a Special Counsel was appointed, Trump told then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. It’s the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.” There were no “fucks” to give in Barr’s summary. Trump directed several individuals to send instructions to fire Mueller, tell Sessions to un-recuse himself, and ask Rachel Brand, who was then the third person in charge at the Justice Department if she was on Team Trump so they could decide if she could take over if he fired Jeff Sessions. For William Barr, Trump is innocent of obstructing justice because he only tried and didn’t succeed. You won’t find in Barr’s summary that the report outlines 10 potential instances of obstruction of justice.
Concerning conspiracy, what you won’t find in Barr’s summary is the sentence from the report’s introduction, “A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.” And regarding obstruction, “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.”
What’s missing from Barr’s summary is campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s “periodically” sharing internal polling data and other campaign updates with the Russians; the campaign’s promotion of “dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content created by” the Russian hacking operation; Trump publicly urging Russia to search for Hillary Clinton’s “missing” emails; the campaign’s successful effort to tone down the anti-Russian language in the Republican Party platform at the nominating convention; the president’s bizarre support for Putin, resistance to sanctions, and corresponding antagonism toward our NATO allies; the multiple meetings between top campaign officials and Russians with Kremlin ties, including the famous meeting at Trump Tower for the express, albeit ultimately unsuccessful, purpose of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton; and the lies they were caught in when they tried to deny either the meetings themselves, the content, or Trump dictating the press release lying about the Trump Tower meeting.
What you did not find in the Barr summary were the multiple false statements coming from Trump and the White House. You did not find the part where Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted to the Special Counsel that she lied to the American people about how the FBI was glad to get rid of director James Comey, that her lie wasn’t based on anything, and she described it as a “slip of the tongue in the heat of the moment.” For what it’s worth, Sanders has never corrected herself to the media. For this transgression, she is no longer, as if she ever was, qualified to be a spokesperson for the White House. She needs to remove herself immediately. She is a liar.
What you didn’t find in the Barr summary was that the only people actually vindicated are the journalists of America. For many of the instances that Trump has called the media “fake news,” the report points out where they were right and Trump was lying. Trump called stories that he asked James Comey to end the Flynn investigation “fake news” but the report points out that he did ask Comey to end that investigation.
What you won’t find in Barr’s summary is the sentence from the report, “His conduct in office presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.”
What you won’t find in the Barr summary are the multiple people on the Trump Campaign who were in contact with Russians. You won’t find in the summary that the Trump campaign “expected to benefit” from criminal actions by Russians who successfully targeted the American election, even if they didn’t coordinate with them. You won’t find in the summary that Trump continues to deny there was Russian meddling. You won’t find in the summary that after Trump called for Russia to release Clinton’s missing emails, that they started attacking her Campaign’s servers within five hours. What you won’t find in Barr’s summary is that Trump, his son, and his campaign had advance knowledge that WikiLeaks would dump Democratic campaign secrets stolen by Russians hackers.
While Barr boasted about Trump’s cooperation with the investigation, what he didn’t mention was that Trump, in his written answers to Mueller, said more than 30 times that he did not “recall” or “remember” or have an “independent recollection.” Remember, Trump boasts he has the “best memory.”
You won’t find in Barr’s summary that Trump sent feelers to people cooperating with Mueller, asking for what they were telling him, and letting them know that they would be considered “hostile” to the president.
What may be the biggest thing you won’t find in the Barr summary is that Mueller intended for Congress to make the decision on obstruction of justice, not the Attorney General. What Barr did was intercept a ball that was meant for Congress. The only reason Trump was not indicted is that Mueller respected the Justice Department’s policy that a sitting president can’t be indicted. Someday, Donald Trump will not be the sitting president. He will be indicted.
What you will find in the Clay Jones Report is that the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress, and Fox News are full of lying, duplicitous and deceitful shitweasels. I’m going to go out on a limb and say my summary here is better and more detailed than Barr’s summary, and I didn’t even go to law school.
William Barr never should have been confirmed as AG and he should have recused himself immediately. His summary proves that. His legacy and reputation are forever stained. Trump found his Roy Cohn.
Donald Trump was and is disloyal to the United States of America. If you bite the narrative he and William Barr are feeding you, then you’re disloyal too.
https://claytoonz.com/2019/04/19/fudged/
The Mueller Report is not vindication or exoneration of Donald Trump. It paints Trump as a president who engaged in a coverup, attempted to obstruct justice, directed others to obstruct justice, and repeatedly lied to the American people. The very best and most honest summary Barr and Trump supporters can get from the report is that the president of the United States is not a foreign agent for Russia and is merely disloyal to the nation he’s sworn to protect. Run on that in 2020.
William Barr is supposed to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. In delivering his summary of the report, which angered many on the Special Counsel’s team, Barr acted as Donald Trump’s advocate. He did not deliver an honest summary of Robert Mueller’s findings. Barr delivered propaganda. He’s no more of an honest advocate for the law than Sean Hannity is a journalist.
Knowing the report was a near total disaster for Trump, Barr set out an agenda to gaslight the American people over the findings. He released a summary stating “no collusion” and that the Special Counsel left it to him to rule on obstruction, which he said he couldn’t find any. He let that hang in the air for three weeks. He consulted with the White House so they could work on the propaganda they’d release before and after the report’s unveiling. He held a press conference the morning of the release before anyone could see the report. He released it on CD Rom, which he may as well done on 8-track. He released it right before Easter so the nation’s attention span would be very short. The only people who fall for this are Trump supporters and the idiots at Fox News.
What you did not find in the Barr summary was that Donald Trump tried to sabotage the investigation and his staff defied him. After a Special Counsel was appointed, Trump told then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. It’s the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.” There were no “fucks” to give in Barr’s summary. Trump directed several individuals to send instructions to fire Mueller, tell Sessions to un-recuse himself, and ask Rachel Brand, who was then the third person in charge at the Justice Department if she was on Team Trump so they could decide if she could take over if he fired Jeff Sessions. For William Barr, Trump is innocent of obstructing justice because he only tried and didn’t succeed. You won’t find in Barr’s summary that the report outlines 10 potential instances of obstruction of justice.
Concerning conspiracy, what you won’t find in Barr’s summary is the sentence from the report’s introduction, “A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.” And regarding obstruction, “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.”
What’s missing from Barr’s summary is campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s “periodically” sharing internal polling data and other campaign updates with the Russians; the campaign’s promotion of “dozens of tweets, posts, and other political content created by” the Russian hacking operation; Trump publicly urging Russia to search for Hillary Clinton’s “missing” emails; the campaign’s successful effort to tone down the anti-Russian language in the Republican Party platform at the nominating convention; the president’s bizarre support for Putin, resistance to sanctions, and corresponding antagonism toward our NATO allies; the multiple meetings between top campaign officials and Russians with Kremlin ties, including the famous meeting at Trump Tower for the express, albeit ultimately unsuccessful, purpose of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton; and the lies they were caught in when they tried to deny either the meetings themselves, the content, or Trump dictating the press release lying about the Trump Tower meeting.
What you did not find in the Barr summary were the multiple false statements coming from Trump and the White House. You did not find the part where Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted to the Special Counsel that she lied to the American people about how the FBI was glad to get rid of director James Comey, that her lie wasn’t based on anything, and she described it as a “slip of the tongue in the heat of the moment.” For what it’s worth, Sanders has never corrected herself to the media. For this transgression, she is no longer, as if she ever was, qualified to be a spokesperson for the White House. She needs to remove herself immediately. She is a liar.
What you didn’t find in the Barr summary was that the only people actually vindicated are the journalists of America. For many of the instances that Trump has called the media “fake news,” the report points out where they were right and Trump was lying. Trump called stories that he asked James Comey to end the Flynn investigation “fake news” but the report points out that he did ask Comey to end that investigation.
What you won’t find in Barr’s summary is the sentence from the report, “His conduct in office presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.”
What you won’t find in the Barr summary are the multiple people on the Trump Campaign who were in contact with Russians. You won’t find in the summary that the Trump campaign “expected to benefit” from criminal actions by Russians who successfully targeted the American election, even if they didn’t coordinate with them. You won’t find in the summary that Trump continues to deny there was Russian meddling. You won’t find in the summary that after Trump called for Russia to release Clinton’s missing emails, that they started attacking her Campaign’s servers within five hours. What you won’t find in Barr’s summary is that Trump, his son, and his campaign had advance knowledge that WikiLeaks would dump Democratic campaign secrets stolen by Russians hackers.
While Barr boasted about Trump’s cooperation with the investigation, what he didn’t mention was that Trump, in his written answers to Mueller, said more than 30 times that he did not “recall” or “remember” or have an “independent recollection.” Remember, Trump boasts he has the “best memory.”
You won’t find in Barr’s summary that Trump sent feelers to people cooperating with Mueller, asking for what they were telling him, and letting them know that they would be considered “hostile” to the president.
What may be the biggest thing you won’t find in the Barr summary is that Mueller intended for Congress to make the decision on obstruction of justice, not the Attorney General. What Barr did was intercept a ball that was meant for Congress. The only reason Trump was not indicted is that Mueller respected the Justice Department’s policy that a sitting president can’t be indicted. Someday, Donald Trump will not be the sitting president. He will be indicted.
What you will find in the Clay Jones Report is that the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress, and Fox News are full of lying, duplicitous and deceitful shitweasels. I’m going to go out on a limb and say my summary here is better and more detailed than Barr’s summary, and I didn’t even go to law school.
William Barr never should have been confirmed as AG and he should have recused himself immediately. His summary proves that. His legacy and reputation are forever stained. Trump found his Roy Cohn.
Donald Trump was and is disloyal to the United States of America. If you bite the narrative he and William Barr are feeding you, then you’re disloyal too.
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President Donald Trump has evaded criminal charges — but special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is a brutal indictment of his campaign and his presidency.
The first volume of the two-part, 448-page report details how Trump and his allies solicited, encouraged, accepted and benefited from the assistance provided by America's most storied foreign adversary as part of a multi-front assault on American democracy.
The other lays out comprehensive evidence that the president may have obstructed justice through what Mueller described as a "pattern of conduct" that included firing FBI Director Jim Comey, trying to remove Mueller, publicly praising and condemning witnesses, and seeking to limit the scope of the probe.
Taken in sum, Mueller's findings reveal three years of actions by Trump and his subordinates that critics say rattle the very foundations of the American system of governance, from the sacrosanct nature of democratic elections to the idea that no man, not even the president, is above the law.
The story, in even its most sympathetic telling, is one of a president who used nearly every power vested in his office and his persona — including hiring and firing, the bully pulpit, party loyalty, private intimidation, and disinformation — to cover up ties between his campaign and Russia so that he could spare himself the public humiliation of having won an election that wasn't entirely on the level.
Of the marquee reports written for Congress over the decades about presidential scandals, the Mueller report will stand out for the brazenness of the chief executive — and for the degree to which insubordination among his underlings reined him in, if only at the margins.
"If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state,” Mueller wrote. “Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment."
When Attorney General William P. Barr sent Congress a four-page letter last month describing his take on the conclusions of Robert S. Mueller III’s special counsel investigation, he quoted several fragments of Mr. Mueller’s then-secret report.
But none of the excerpts were in context or even complete sentences, raising the question of whether he was portraying their thrust and tone accurately or skewing them to make them sound better for President Trump.
Now that the report is out, readers can see where Mr. Barr plucked those phrases from.
