Probably the main takeaway from this is that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was an employee of the Department of Justice, in the role of overseeing an investigation and making charging decisions, appointed for the sole reason that there was a perception (right or wrong) of conflict of interest within the Department of Justice itself.
While in that role, Mueller was obligated as any DOJ employee would be to follow the normal guidelines and procedures of a prosecutor. What Mueller does in Volume II of his report (by not making a traditional decision) is to turn the entire system of justice upside down by eliminating the long held American Justice stance and long time constitutional protection of all Americans that we are treated as innocent until proven guilty.
This was touched during Barr's hearing, where several times he suggest that it is not DOJ policy to ever "exonerate" someone, but only to provide a binary decision on prosecution. Barr suggested multiple times that the DOJ is not to be used as a political weapon, Grand Juries are not seated to provide political fodder, and in no case are department resources to be used to dig up dirt on any American, with the underlying intention to air the dirt to the public.
The fact that Mueller (working for the DOJ) use the massive resources of the department to the tune of 22 months and $30 million, only to disregard quite possibly the most important principle of our Justice system should be sickening to every American.
But alas, it is not sickening to all Americans, because the people to whom Mueller's report was directed desperately needed a pound of flesh. Mueller not providing it would have made him seem as a failure from both sides of the aisle. So he callously disregarded the President's right to be seen as innocent, decided to flaunt DOJ guidelines, as well as the constitutional protections laid out in the bill of rights, all to make a political point.
Unfortunately partisanship demands that liberals be mad at Barr for standing up for these paramount American principles that (if not for the fact the situation included Donald Trump) everyone (including Democrats and liberals) would agree should be followed 100% of the time.
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Trump had a one hour conversation with his buff Putin. He said that the Russians didn't hack into the election because there was no collusion.
He did not warn him against hacking in the next election.
He's a traitor.
You’re an idiot, Roger.
You think Putin this economic news, the fact we are drilling more??
For someone who’s Putin’s BFF he sure knows how to screw him over
Roger can't think outside what he reads on TPM.
The liberal position is that we should subvert our rights and institutions because Trump.
Trump later confirmed the call in a Friday tweet in which called the accusation of collusion the "Russian Hoax." The Mueller report said that the Russians did attack our election system in 2016.
"Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin of Russia. As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing, not a bad thing," he tweeted. "We discussed Trade, Venezuela, Ukraine, North Korea, Nuclear Arms Control and even the 'Russian Hoax.' Very productive talk!"
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Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin of Russia. As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing, not a bad thing....
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Since Mueller's findings were released by Attorney General William Barr in March and the full report was released last month, Trump has continued to claim vindication. Mueller's report, which lays out Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election, notes "that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."
There is no doubt whatsoever that the Russians did attack our country by sewing doubt about our most important part of the Constitution, we chose the people who run our government. Like I said!
However, Mueller said in the report that he did not find a provable criminal conspiracy.
During Mueller’s probe, he indicted twenty-five Russian nationals and three Russian companies for hacking and a disinformation campaign targeting Americans on social media.
He did not warn him against hacking in the next election.
He's a traitor.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-putin-discussed-mueller-report-agreed-no-collusion-white-house-n1001706
What I find most amusing is Rasmussen being so out of line with ALL the other polls and how trump with such a great economy and doing a GREAT job is doing so shitty in the majority of the polls....Could it be the voters are discovering he really is an asshole looking out for himself and the country is secondary to lying and money.....
President Trump Job Approval Gallup Approve 46, Disapprove 50 Disapprove +4
President Trump Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 50, Disapprove 47 Approve +3
Thursday, May 2
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
President Trump Job Approval The Hill/HarrisX Approve 46, Disapprove 54 Disapprove +8
President Trump Job Approval Quinnipiac Approve 41, Disapprove 55 Disapprove +14
Wednesday, May 1
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
President Trump Job Approval CNN Approve 44, Disapprove 53 Disapprove +9
President Trump Job Approval NPR/PBS/Marist Approve 42, Disapprove 54 Disapprove +12
President Trump Job Approval Politico/Morning Consult Approve 42, Disapprove 54 Disapprove +12
President Trump Job Approval Reuters/Ipsos Approve 39, Disapprove 56 Disapprove +17
President Trump Job Approval Economist/YouGov Approve 44, Disapprove 53 Disapprove +9
Hi Roger and Opie
Are you two happy with the Economy?
WOW
President Trump Job Approval Gallup Approve 46, Disapprove 50 Disapprove +4
Quite an upswing from his lows.
The trend is your friend.
Roger and Opie are positive the Economy is not an important issue in 2020. Bit the New Green Deal is.
Worth a read. James Comey.
Scott, he has eaten your soul. Speaking as a friend, not on political differences.
People have been asking me hard questions. What happened to the leaders in the Trump administration, especially the attorney general, Bill Barr, who I have said was due the benefit of the doubt?
How could Mr. Barr, a bright and accomplished lawyer, start channeling the president in using words like “no collusion” and F.B.I. “spying”? And downplaying acts of obstruction of justice as products of the president’s being “frustrated and angry,” something he would never say to justify the thousands of crimes prosecuted every day that are the product of frustration and anger?
How could he write and say things about the report by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, that were apparently so misleading that they prompted written protest from the special counsel himself?
How could Mr. Barr go before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and downplay President Trump’s attempt to fire Mr. Mueller before he completed his work?
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And how could Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, after the release of Mr. Mueller’s report that detailed Mr. Trump’s determined efforts to obstruct justice, give a speech quoting the president on the importance of the rule of law? Or on resigning, thank a president who relentlessly attacked both him and the Department of Justice he led for “the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations”?
What happened to these people?
I don’t know for sure. People are complicated, so the answer is most likely complicated. But I have some idea from four months of working close to Mr. Trump and many more months of watching him shape others.
Amoral leaders have a way of revealing the character of those around them. Sometimes what they reveal is inspiring. For example, James Mattis, the former secretary of defense, resigned over principle, a concept so alien to Mr. Trump that it took days for the president to realize what had happened, before he could start lying about the man.
But more often, proximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing. I think that’s at least part of what we’ve seen with Bill Barr and Rod Rosenstein. Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from. It takes character like Mr. Mattis’s to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.
It starts with your sitting silent while he lies, both in public and private, making you complicit by your silence. In meetings with him, his assertions about what “everyone thinks” and what is “obviously true” wash over you, unchallenged, as they did at our private dinner on Jan. 27, 2017, because he’s the president and he rarely stops talking. As a result, Mr. Trump pulls all of those present into a silent circle of assent.
Speaking rapid-fire with no spot for others to jump into the conversation, Mr. Trump makes everyone a co-conspirator to his preferred set of facts, or delusions. I have felt it — this president building with his words a web of alternative reality and busily wrapping it around all of us in the room.
I must have agreed that he had the largest inauguration crowd in history because I didn’t challenge that. Everyone must agree that he has been treated very unfairly. The web building never stops.
From the private circle of assent, it moves to public displays of personal fealty at places like cabinet meetings. While the entire world is watching, you do what everyone else around the table does — you talk about how amazing the leader is and what an honor it is to be associated with him.
Sure, you notice that Mr. Mattis never actually praises the president, always speaking instead of the honor of representing the men and women of our military. But he’s a special case, right? Former Marine general and all. No way the rest of us could get away with that. So you praise, while the world watches, and the web gets tighter.
Next comes Mr. Trump attacking institutions and values you hold dear — things you have always said must be protected and which you criticized past leaders for not supporting strongly enough. Yet you are silent. Because, after all, what are you supposed to say? He’s the president of the United States.
You feel this happening. It bothers you, at least to some extent. But his outrageous conduct convinces you that you simply must stay, to preserve and protect the people and institutions and values you hold dear. Along with Republican members of Congress, you tell yourself you are too important for this nation to lose, especially now.
You can’t say this out loud — maybe not even to your family — but in a time of emergency, with the nation led by a deeply unethical person, this will be your contribution, your personal sacrifice for America. You are smarter than Donald Trump, and you are playing a long game for your country, so you can pull it off where lesser leaders have failed and gotten fired by tweet.
Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises. You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values.
And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul.
VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE SPYING THAT WENT ON from upper level FBI.
FBI Official’s Testimony Raises New Questions about Surveillance of Trump Campaign
Deputy assistant director Jonathan Moffa’s testimony, which has been obtained exclusively by National Review, suggests there was more going on than has yet been admitted.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/fbi-official-testimony-surveillance-trump-campaign/
He has eaten your soul.
I seriously believe that he is the greatest threat to our nation in history. The expansion of executive authority and lawless government expansion is contrary to conservative beliefs.
He has eaten a soul of the party of Ronald Reagan. A man who I voted for.
..were left to me decide whether we would have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson.
Ronald Reagan would love the Trump presidency
But he would have been much less effective if he had faced the unethical opposition Trump has had to and the TDS Congress, RHINO's, deep state and the blatantly left-wing news media.
Has Roger even yet admitted that spying went on against the Trump campaign ? Has all the FAKE NEWS media? (some now have, others silent)
And with each layer that is being exposed it appears more and more likely it went all the day to Obama. Biggest political scandal of all time. by far. and slowly dripping out though the pace is quickening.
Jefferson would have hated our FAKE NEWS media.
He probably would work at Fox.
Roger...
Think about it. One of us just goes about his life as if everything is going along well. We have record unemployment, high GDP growth, great manufacturing, wages are up, inflation is under control. One of us is happy, has a good job, has a happy marriage, and a wonderful family who spends a lot of time together laughing, joking, and doing things we enjoy.
The other one of spends all of their time angry, upset, calling people names, and when they do talk to their family, apparently it's to bitch about the state of the world and how much they hate certain politicians. But at the end of it all, it would seem... more than anything else... that one of us is mad at everyone else for not being as angry and upset as they are.
One of these people has a happy and complete soul!
The other is missing huge chunks of their soul, and appears to be losing more and more each day.
Which one is you?
Just curious??
Ronald Reagan would love the Trump Presidency"
As would John F. Kennedy.
Tax cuts, Pro growth and sticking it to the Russians.
"Every taxpayer and his family will have more money left over after taxes for a new car, a new home, new conveniences, education and investment. Every businessman can keep a higher percentage of his profits in his cash register or put it to work expanding or improving his business, and as the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues.”
My personal life is going great.
Unlike you who has sold your soul to the con man President, I fear for the country, as turning into a dictatorship.
😂😃😁😀😄
Oh Joe, how goes the apology tour?
"Since announcing his run for president, Biden’s interactions with reporters have been slim, but one reporter asked him at an ice cream stop in Iowa if his vote for NAFTA was a mistake.
“No, it wasn’t,” Biden replied shortly."
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Are you two happy with the Economy?
by Staff Report • April 30, 2019 • 0 Comments
Few Americans feel they have personally benefited a great deal from the nation’s growing economy, with the wealthy seen as getting a lot more help from President Donald Trump’s policies than either the middle class or the poor.
The Monmouth University Poll also finds health care costs continue to top a wide variety of concerns that American families are facing.
Only 12% of Americans say that their family has benefited a great deal from recent growth in the U.S. economy and another 31% say they have received some benefit from the economic upturn.
A majority, though, say they have been helped either not much (27%) or not at all (27%) from the nation’s macroeconomic growth.
These results are nearly identical to Monmouth polls taken in 2018 as well as just before Trump took office in January 2017.
Only 34% of those earning less than $50,000 a year and 42% of those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 say they have benefited at least somewhat from the growing economy.
This contrasts with those earning more the $100,000, where a majority (58%) say they have benefited.
Currently, just 18% of Americans say that middle-class families in general have benefited a lot from Trump’s policies so far, 37% say that middle-class families have benefited a little and 36% say they have not benefited at all.
These results are similar to a year ago, when 14% said the middle class benefited a lot, 45% a little, and 36% not at all.
Seems like more than a few voters have been left behind in trumps great work.....LOLOL>OL
Public expectations were somewhat more positive shortly before Trump took office in January 2017, when 26% predicted that the middle class would see a lot of benefit from the new president’s policies, 40% said the middle class would see a little, and 29% said the middle class would not see any change in their situation.
“There just isn’t a sense that Donald Trump has come to the rescue of the middle class. He has his staunch defenders, but there hasn’t been any clear success in winning over the public on bread-and-butter issues,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
A majority of Americans (58%) say that wealthy families have benefited a lot from Trump’s policies, 22% say the wealthy have benefited a little, and just 9% say not at all.
The party of trump now thinks spending money in a bipartisan way is NFG.....maybe they should look at their wondrous tax cuts and see what is really driving the deficit they and you slurpers embrace because it is trump and railed about spending under Obama....hypocrites...
Republicans with price tag concerns threaten Trump’s infrastructure plan
The surprise push with top Democrats for a $2 trillion package has run into immediate opposition from the president’s own chief of staff and many Republican lawmakers.
As it should. It is unnecessary . Use the money already being collected.
Speaker in Name Only Polosi holds the purse strings, let's see how she leads.
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Are you two happy with the Economy?
You can't even answer a single question without a cut n paste.
Imagine that you live in a town that has been taken over by gangsters. The mayor is a crook and so are the district attorney and police chief. You can’t fight city hall. But at least you know you can turn for help to the state or federal government. Now imagine that it’s not a city or state that has been taken over by criminals — it’s the federal government. Where do you turn for help? That is not a theoretical concern. After the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report, it’s our grim reality.
My personal life is going great.
Unlike you who has sold your soul to the con man President, I fear for the country, as turning into a dictatorship.
See Roger... you cannot even defend the nature of your life without proving exactly what I just stated.
Lets start with this. I believe that you did not read the letter I posted. You literally cannot because your cognitive dissonance is so great that it actually causes you emotional turmoil just to read it (fueled by your overwhelming hatred).
But let me be perfectly clear here. Hatred is not normal. Hatred is not good. Hatred is not a positive emotion. Hating the duly elected President of the United States is not the stuff of emotionally healthy and emotionally stable people.
The fact that you "DO" believe that such hatred is normal or should be normal is even more disturbing. The fact that you actually judge other people for "NOT" feeling these unhealthy and abnormal emotions is pretty much a sign of an emotional breakdown.
Nobody goes to therapy because they don't hate, Roger.
Nobody wants to commit suicide because they don't hate.
The people who don't hate are not the sick ones here.
fe without proving exactly what I just stated.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! The only thing you keep proving is your unadulterated love for a Nazi loving, KKK tolerant tyrant who wants to run the country like a family business!!!! The hatred is on your side with the likes of Alex Jones and the spew he puts out....the emotional baggage you carry is predicated that he does what you like, while like the majority of the country thinks his prosperity benefits his buddies and not your....God Bless your hyper partisanship putting party of trump first and fuck the constitution....
You can't even answer a single question without a cut n paste.
You dumb goat fucking idiot.....that article provides that the majority of the country thinks like me......Too bad that flew over your pin head and answers the question why his poll numbers still suck, like you goat fucker.....LOLOLOLOL
Are you two happy with the Economy?
You can't even answer a single question without a cut n paste.
Still haven't and clearly can't.
Next....
You can't even answer a single question without a cut n paste.
And you can't find your old fat white ass in the dark......goat fucking idiot.....the post I made is my answer....figure it out jag off....
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