Mueller: Trump Tried to Thwart
Fully Justified Russia Probe
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Trump’s presidency is completely corrupt:
Robert S. Mueller III revealed a frantic, monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, cataloging in a report released on Thursday the attempts by Mr. Trump to escape an inquiry that imperiled his presidency from the start.
The much-anticipated report laid out how a team of prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, wrestled with whether the president’s actions added up to an indictable offense of obstruction of justice for a sitting president. They ultimately decided not to charge Mr. Trump, citing numerous legal and factual constraints, but pointedly declined to exonerate him.
“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,” Mr. Mueller’s investigators wrote. “Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.”
Well, that’s gonna leave a mark!
The full redacted report is here
It is worth pointing out that Mueller, in his report, states that his investigation was not looking for collusion. From the report, volume one:
Like collusion, “coordination” does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement—tacit or express—between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other’s actions or interests
Plenty of nuggets from teh report are trending on Twitter:
“Mueller also established that a conspiracy theory on Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee staffer murdered in 2016—pushed by Hannity was a concerted effort by WikiLeaks to mask its work with Russian military intelligence.”
You’re garbage @seanhannity pic.twitter.com/o8e4Q8NVXV
— Agenthades (@Agenthades1) April 18, 2019
The FBI believes that Russian hackers were able to breach “at least one” Florida county government through a spearphishing campaign targeting local election officials, according to Mueller’s report. https://t.co/2DlaIey2Qa
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 18, 2019
House Oversight chair Elijah Cummings: “This report catalogues in excruciating detail a proliferation of lies by the President to the American people … Unfortunately, we still have only part of the story, and Congress must subpoena the full report and all underlying documents.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 18, 2019
Sitting GOP senators who voted to toss President Clinton from office for obstruction of justice:
BLUNT
BURR
CRAPO
ENZI
GRASSLEY
GRAHAM*
INHOFE
MCCONNELL
MORAN
PORTMAN
ROBERTS
SHELBY
THUNE
WICKER
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*Graham served as a House impeachment manager— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) April 18, 2019
14 cases referred out. Hold your horses. Meanwhile, @jasonleopold stated that he and Anthony Cormier had personally read documents that the Mueller report says don’t exist. @BuzzFeedBen backed that. I wonder if @brianstelter @ReliableSources will now follow up?
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) April 18, 2019