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Here he is saying that a) the Russian ratfcking was aimed at damaging Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign and b) that it was meant to influence the election in a certain direction—i.e. to benefit the Trump campaign. You may recall some stories at the time that alleged the Russians were engaged in some nihilistic, non-partisan ratfcking in order merely to create chaos in the American political system. No, Mueller said on Wednesday. The Russian ratfcking had one definite purpose: the election of Donald Trump. The Russian ratfckers, and the Volga Bagmen behind them, wanted this incompetent, vulgar talking yam to be president*.
Anybody who wants to know why that was the case—like, say, several committees in the House of Representatives—is free to explore the reasons at length. To believe still that Mueller's investigation definitively concluded, "No collusion," you have to believe that all this effort and expense to influence an election in favor of a guy whose businesses already depended on Russian money, and who at the time was trying to close a major real estate deal in Moscow, was all a happy accident, a blessing from above on the Trump campaign. All of this, of course, was in the report. But watching Mueller say it out loud was a compelling bit of theater.
And that brings us to the most disappointing thing about Mueller's brief appearance on Wednesday: his stated reluctance to appear before Congress. He has no excuse left. He is a private citizen now. And if he only repeats what's in the report, on television, in front of the country, it will contribute mightily to the political momentum behind the demands that Congress do its damn job or shirk its duty entirely. He still needs to testify. He still needs to take questions. He's only a citizen like the rest of us now, and he has a duty to do the right thing. We all do.
The White House wanted the U.S. Navy to move “out of sight” a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain, a war hero who became a frequent target of President Trump’s ire, ahead of the president’s visit to Japan last week, according to an email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
In a May 15 email to U.S. Navy and Air Force officials, a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command official outlined plans for the president’s arrival that he said had resulted from conversations between the White House Military Office and the Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy. In addition to instructions for the proper landing areas for helicopters and preparation for the USS Wasp—where the president was scheduled to speak—the official issued a third directive: “USS John McCain needs to be out of sight.”
“Please confirm #3 will be satisfied,” the official wrote.
When a Navy commander expressed surprise about the directive for the USS John McCain, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command official replied: “First I heard of it as well.” He said he would work with the White House Military Office to obtain more information about the order.
Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan was aware of the concern about the presence of the USS John McCain in Japan and approved measures to ensure it didn’t interfere with the president’s visit, a U.S. official said.
There were discussions within the U.S. military over the past week about how to handle the warship, another U.S. official said. The ship is being repaired after a 2017 collision, and any ship undergoing such repair or maintenance would be difficult to move, officials said. A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the president’s trip, according to photos reviewed by the Journal, and sailors were directed to remove any coverings from the ship that bore its name. After the tarp was taken down, a barge was moved closer to the ship, obscuring its name. Sailors on the ship, who typically wear caps bearing its name, were given the day off during Mr. Trump’s visit, people familiar with the matter said.
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11. FIFTH, the very fact Mueller (of all people) is in a press conference about his conclusions tells you there is grave concern about the way Barr’s press conferences & public statements have tried to obscure things. A press conference is not where Mueller would want to be.
12. But Mueller evidently felt it necessary. Even though Barr is his boss. While we have focused a lot on how Mueller is saying he couldn’t indict a sitting President, Mueller couldn’t easily “indict” (here I mean it in the nontechnical sense, “criticize”) Barr, his boss, either
13.Thats huge. Imagine your boss went and gave a press conference about your work. You then wrote her 2 letters expressing concern about what she said. She then testifies in Congress. If you later went and gave your own conference,what would that say about how you view your boss?
14. The only nice thing Mueller could bring himself to say about Barr today was this: “We appreciate that the Attorney General made the report largely public. I do not question the Attorney General’s good faith IN THAT DECISION.”
15. Wow. That’s like my saying I don’t question Trump for his decision to publicly explain why he wanted a Muslim Ban. BFD.
16. About a thousand former federal prosecutors have read the Mueller Report and concluded that they would indict anyone who wasn’t the President on the facts presented. The Report itself raises grave concerns about the President’s fitness for office.
STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS
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17.And beyond that,there is the problem that even if you can’t indict a President, who wants to have a guy in the job who is only avoiding jail by dint of his Govt title? Don’t we have a higher standard for highest office in the land than “not criminal by reason of technicality”?
18. If you are interested in this last point, this one of many things that @gtconway3d has written so eloquently about.
19.BOTTOM LINE.This all today means 3 things
*an impeachment inquiry is inevitable
*the facts outlined by Mueller suggest Trump will be indicted when he leaves office
*Trump goes down in history as a criminal who violated his oath to take care the laws be faithfully executed
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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was appointed on May 17, 2017, by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 White House race and whether the Russian government coordinated with individuals associated with Donald Trump’s campaign. The special counsel also examined whether President Trump obstructed justice by seeking to block the Russia investigation.
On March 22, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-report-sent-to-attorney-general-signaling-his-russia-investigation-has-ended/2019/03/22/b061d8fa-323e-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.5bfe0fdc7b4a (the special counsel submitted a confidential report on his findings) to Attorney General William P. Barr. Two days later, https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-attorney-general-barr-s-principal-conclusions-of-the-mueller-report/?noteId=9048a12b-2332-4645-a1be-d645db216eb5&questionId=218b8095-c5e3-4eab-9135-4170f5b3e87f&utm_term=.83d1434abd9d (Barr relayed to Congress what he said were Mueller’s principal conclusions). He said that the special-counsel investigation “did not establish” that members of Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia. Barr said that Mueller declined to make a judgement as to whether Trump obstructed justice. The attorney general said that left the decision to him, and Barr concluded the evidence gathered by the special counsel “is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”
https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/f5fe536c-81bb-45be-86e5-a9fee9794664/note/a8d336ef-e98d-4a08-987d-b4c154b22700.pdf (Download the full PDF here.)
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that Russia helped “me to get elected,” and then quickly retracted the idea.
“No Russia did not get me elected,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House to travel to Colorado Springs. He spoke less than hour after his Twitter post.
The original comment, a clause in one of several Twitter posts this morning, is an extraordinary admission from Mr. Trump, who has avoided saying publicly that Russia helped him win the presidency in 2016 through its election interference, something American intelligence agencies and federal prosecutors have long asserted.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that Russia helped “me to get elected,” and then quickly retracted the idea.
“No Russia did not get me elected,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House to travel to Colorado Springs. He spoke less than hour after his Twitter post.
The original comment, a clause in one of several Twitter posts this morning, is an extraordinary admission from Mr. Trump, who has avoided saying publicly that Russia helped him win the presidency in 2016 through its election interference, something American intelligence agencies and federal prosecutors have long asserted.
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