Key Takeaways From the Mueller Report on Trump and Russia

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Opening comments from Heritage foundation:
article"The final report by special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, but details in the 448-page document provide fodder for congressional Democrats who want more investigations.
The lightly redacted report released Thursday by the Justice Department states that President Donald Trump feared appointment of a special counsel would mean the “end” of his presidency.
But it does not say conclusively that the president tried to obstruct the probe, and Attorney General William Barr determined that the evidence did not support criminal charges.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Thursday that Barr will testify May 2, and that Mueller himself will testify shortly after that. "
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  • Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 11 months ago
    They found nothing actionable. At this point, any further action by con-gress or the federal bureaucracy is an illegal attempt to manipulate the 2020 elections in favor of statists.

    If Trump has any evidence against members of the previous administration and/or against the Clinton campaign and DNC, then make it public. Q has been claiming action is imminent for months. I am out of patience. Punish the treasonous vermin.
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    • Posted by exceller 4 years, 11 months ago
      I am counting on Barr investigating the spying incident and shed light on Obama, Brennan and Clapper

      Simultaneously Trump must declas FISA and release it.

      It is high time the hysterical tantrum of impeachment, subpoenas and moving the target by the left must be stopped. Barr has enough evidence and so does Trump.

      Push back that mob otherwise it will push you. The left has taken this to extreme, unprecedented levels. They will not spare anyone let alone the country. There is only one way to handle a destructive force such as this: annihilate it.
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      • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 years, 11 months ago
        I think the rhetoric is going to get worse once the real collusion, the real vote tampering, the real lairs and those involved start getting court summons and the indictments get unsealed and unredacted.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 11 months ago
    Did Mueller deliberately take over two years to figure out this report? It seems strange to me that he worded his report rather oddly. He couldn't say specifically if Trump was clear on all charges made? Why not? Was this done this way on purpose?
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    • Posted by $ blarman 4 years, 11 months ago
      Yes, because he is a partisan hack and didn't want to let the investigation die. It was his duty as the lead prosecutor to determine whether or not there was sufficient evidence to convene a grand jury. He didn't. Instead he punted so he could put the blame on Barr. And the way he worded specific events smacks of innuendo and implication - which is not the job of a prosecutor. His job was to pursue the facts and let the facts dictate the course of the investigation. But because he's a partisan hack and his team was seventeen other Democrats he had a job to do: convict Trump by whatever means necessary.

      Part of the reason it took so long was because Mueller was stalling to see what would happen during the 2018 elections. He hoped (along with many Democrats) that the investigation would bring landslide victory to the Democrats in Congress so they could then Impeach the President and drive him from office. When that didn't happen (most of the Democrat victories were due to gerrymandered re-districting in California), all they could hope for was any shred of an excuse to then attempt to prosecute Trump politically via hearings. Mueller did exactly was his Democratic handlers told him to do when they realized that they couldn't get him on real charges. It was the same thing they did to Michael Flynn - set him up and entrap him.
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 years, 11 months ago
      [Pg 11] Previously CLAS 'scope' > [RR] to [MUELLER]
      The scope memo [highlighted w/in Mueller report] confirms the 'dossier' was the 'tool' used by [RR] to justify SC and was the primary 'vehicle' to which [RR] tasked MUELLER.
      If the dossier was known to be unverified and fake, how then was an investigation started to begin with?
      At what point did MUELLER determine there was no collusion?
      [18-months ago?]
      Was the investigation kept ongoing as a 'talking point' to rig the midterm elections?
      Was the investigation kept ongoing to retain the 'BLOCKADE' to essentially restrict POTUS from unmasking and informing the public as to the TRUTH about what really happened?
      Was the investigation kept ongoing to PROTECT THOSE WHO 'KNOWINGLY' COMMITTED TREASON/SEDITION?
      NO BLOCKADE = GAME OVER
      Q
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  • Posted by starznbarz 4 years, 11 months ago
    This quote from the transcript of AG Barrs remarks get ZERO media attention, why it is ignored should be obvious, as it completely removes any question of "obstruction". - "And as the Special Counsel’s report acknowledges, there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered by a sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents, and fueled by illegal leaks. Nonetheless, the White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel’s investigation, providing unfettered access to campaign and White House documents, directing senior aides to testify freely, and asserting no privilege claims. And at the same time, the President took no act that in fact deprived the Special Counsel of the documents and witnesses necessary to complete his investigation. Apart from whether the acts were obstructive, this evidence of non-corrupt motives weighs heavily against any allegation that the President had a corrupt intent to obstruct the investigation." :AG Barr
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 4 years, 11 months ago
    Didn't I vote for Trump? And didn't the majority of the voters, state by state? And wouldn't the Democrats like to overturn the results?--But they can't. And they might as well accept it. I didn't like it when Obama won, but I didn't go for all that nonsense about his not being born in the United States; I just voted for his opponent the next time. And Obama won again, and I didn't like that either, but I didn't throw a tantrum about it. I just voted for the other party next time.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 4 years, 11 months ago
    I am all too familiar with government bureaucrats. When controversy arises, it becomes a game of survival, and I have no doubt there has been purposeful "slow rolling" of investigations aimed at the perpetrators of the attempted coup, lest the investigators find themselves on the wrong side of the conflict. Now that the Mueller report has shot nothing but blanks, and there is a real no nonsense AG in charge, I believe we will see the light shined on the roaches behind the coup attempt.

    The dilemma the Democrats now face is finding a way to convince the formerly hesitant bureaucrats that their careers could still be in jeopardy, to hold off consequences as long as possible. It's that fear of the legal avalanche poised to descend upon them that is driving their feverish hunt for something, anything to investigate.
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  • Posted by DanGriffing 4 years, 11 months ago
    Read the damned report. The main reason Trump wasn’t indicted was because Justice Department regulations prevented Mueller from doing so. But like the Special Prosecutor’s Report 45 years ago during the Nixon administration, it is a clear and explicit roadmap for Congressional oversight action and or impeachment.
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    • Posted by 4 years, 11 months ago
      He didn't have to indicte. He could have written Part 1 like Part 2 was written. Part 2 lays out an Impeachment path for Congress to follow. Part 1 says there was no evidence to support collusion. If he had just presented the selected instances like he did in Part two the congress would have many more areas to go after the President.
      The reason he didn't do that is both sides new the evidence was missing/false for collusion. That's why there is no mention any more of collusion, only obstruction and there only 10 "Possible" instances.
      there had to be a crime in order to obstruct justice (interfere with the conduct of the investigation or some other such activity). Telling a subordinate to tell someone else to Fire Mueller is not obstruction when the middle man didn't cary out the order. That would be aking to being charged with attempted murder if you told someone to kill person a and they didn't do it. by the logic proposed you would be charged with attempted Murder because you told someone to commit the crime but they didn't. Does not make sense there or in the case of Trump. Personally, I doubt he ever gave such instructions. Some of the people involved would lie just to keep from telling the truth even once.

      I by the way: I did read the damn report.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 11 months ago
    My key takeaway: President Trump is not guilty.

    They did a thorough and fair investigation and didn't find anything. The American gov't, despite its problems, works.

    The report couldn't be any more positive to Trump, at least based on my limited reading of news articles. I had kept wondering why Trump acts so guilty. The report answers this question: contemporaneous notes show Trump said he was worry the investigation would cripple his administration, even if it was baseless.

    Nutjobs dreamed up conspiracy theories: Maybe Mueller had it in for Trump. Maybe Mueller was secretly working some grand plan, and Trump was only pretending to be frustrated with Sessions. It turned out to be all nonsense.

    It hope the government can stop focusing on who might benefit from Russian interference and instead focus on exposing it.
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    • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 4 years, 11 months ago
      I would quibble with the term 'fair'. They were trying their best to find something and put everything in the worst possible light. That's not actually fair.

      Several people have had their lives ruined and gone to jail because Mueller hoped to use them to get Trump. Manafort seems to have deserved it. Flynn got it for just doing his job -- diplomacy sometimes involves back channel discussions. Why the FBI had a right to what efforts the incoming Trump team were making to build a working relationship with Russia are beyond me.
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