Short Version of Mueller's Speech

Because of course Trump wasn't just obstructing investigation into the false, farcical allegations against Trump's campaign. No, he was also obstructing the false, farcical "investigation" of "Russian interference" I conducted to rubberstamp Deep State lies about Russia. If Trump had had his way, I might not have been able to not interview Assange or Murray or anyone else who had a clue as to what actually happened.

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... is that there is no way Mueller is going to appear before Congress and answer the kinds of questions he knows the desperate Democrats are going to ask. He doesn’t want to talk about the alleged "evidence" proving that Trump colluded with Russia to win the election — the criminal investigation of which Trump supposedly obstructed. Nor does he want to talk about when he first realized there was no such crime committed. He doesn’t want to explain why he packed up and closed the investigation so abruptly. He doesn’t want to explain why he did not investigate how Wikileaks came to have the stolen emails. He doesn’t want to field questions about why did not charge anyone in the Trump campaign with conspiring with Russia to fix the 2016 election. Or why he did not indict Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner for colluding with the Russians. And, he certainly does not want to say why he did not recommend any further indictments after working round the clock with 30 investigators for two years.

He plans to walk out of there as fast as he can and not look back.

Everyone who could, hit the road when AG Barr started hiring special investigators to find out who started this whole Russia election meddling business in the first place. And how long those instigators had been wiretapping the Trump campaign without a warrant. Barr may want to take a look at issues pertaining to investigative illegalities for which Trump possesses classified documents that fully exposes them.

Meanwhile, everyone keeps doubling down — hoping the narrative sticks.

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He would either have to plead the 5th on most questions or commit perjury because he knows that there was never anything to charge Trump with. I'm working on an essay that should blow people's minds. It's blowing mine.

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Anyone who has bought into this Russian propaganda nonsense heard that Mueller found evidence of Trump's obstructing justice and will continue believing that Russia interfered with the election and got Trump elected.

Me? I heard a bunch of BS from Mueller and thought how anyone serving on a jury would think. "If he can't say without a shadow of a doubt that Trump committed a crime then how am I supposed to return a guilty charge against him?

Pulling a Comey: How Mueller dog-whistled Democrats into impeachment of Trump

At a remarkable press conference on Wednesday – at which he refused to take questions – Mueller sank the theory that Attorney General William Barr somehow misinterpreted his report..
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Despite years of work, millions of dollars and near-unlimited powers, Mueller’s special prosecutors found zero evidence of collusion or conspiracy – and absent that underlying crime, no grounds to charge the US president with obstruction of justice, even as they wrote up 240 pages of tortured reasoning as to why they wanted to. Case closed, conspiracies put to bed, lots of people with egg on their face, time for the republic to move on, right?

Wrong!

Did you honestly expect people who have gone all in on a conspiracy theory about Russia somehow “stealing” the election from Hillary Clinton – investing not just the past three years, but their entire political and media capital into it – to give up just because there isn’t a grain of truth in it? Instead, they latched onto Mueller’s carefully weasel-worded declaration:

If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so.

So what did Mueller find from his two year investigation into the new WMDs scam? Remember during the last one he testified to congress that yes indeed Saddam had WMDs. But sure let's trust him to tell us the truth this time.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s ‘Russiagate report has cleared Donald Trump of ‘collusion’ charges but maintains that Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential election. Yet concrete evidence of that is nowhere to be seen.

So what exactly did Russia do to interfere with the election that made people change their vote from Herheinous to Trump?

However, it asserts that Russian “interference” in the election did happen, and says it consisted of a campaign on social media as well as Russian military intelligence (repeatedly referred to by its old, Soviet-era name, GRU) “hacking” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the DNC, and the private email account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta.

This is Mueller's evidence that shows how Vlad and his henchmen did the deed. Wow. As we know that ad agency posted silly memes on puppies. Strange Jesus figures and what nots. Oh yeah. And that most of them were placed after the election was over!

The NSA showed Mueller proof that the DNC computers had been hacked. What's that? They didn't? Well surely Mueller interviewed Assange and asked him where he got the information that he posted. Oh wait...

So what exactly did Mueller say today that cleared up people's confusion about whether Trump was guilty of any crime?

"My report does not say that I didn't find that president Trump did not commit a crime. However, I can't say with any certainty that he did."

Yup. Rorschach's test for the rubes who will continue to believe that Herheinous is the rightful heir to the presidency and would be president today if Vlad and Don hadn't...

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Journalist Mark Ames joked that “Putin has a Mueller pee tape,” a reference to one particularly lurid tale presented in the ‘Steele Dossier.’ Ironically, the Steele Dossier –though completely uncorroborated– was used by the FBI to justify surveilling the Trump campaign and played a central role in kick-starting the investigation that Mueller eventually took over.

Ames added: “If Maddow doesn't air a segment tonight claiming Putin has a Mueller pee tape, it can only mean one thing–Putin has a Maddow pee tape.

Are Robert Mueller and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow guilty by urination? Well, no, but the idea that Maddow would air such a segment on Mueller is not a far-fetched one.

In the two years since Mueller took over the ‘Russiagate’ investigation, Maddow has flung dung-heaps of conspiratorial Russian nonsense at viewers every night. There was her warning that the Kremlin could “flip the off switch” on the US power grid and freeze Americans to death last winter, the suggestion that Trump personally paid for the services of “Russian hackers,” and the insistence that Vladimir Putin would use the (then debunked) ‘Pee Tape’ to force Trump to withdraw US troops from Eastern Europe (the exact opposite happened).

Lmao...I didn't know Rachel thinks Trump paid for Vlad's KGB goons to do the hacking, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did. People think that he told Russia to hack the DNC computers when all he basically said is, "hey Russia. Hillary illegally deleted her emails that she had been subpoenaed to turn into congress. If you find them let us know mkay?"

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Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team.

However, buried deep in Reuters story is the same source claiming that Steele might cooperate with a parallel inquiry by the Justice Department’s Inspector General into how U.S. law enforcement agencies handled pre-election investigations into both Trump and Clinton.

In the past Steele has cooperated, willingly being interviewed twice in the special counsel's investigation, and submitting answers in writing to the Senate Intelligence Committee, but apparently this time he is not willing.

The intelligence community, which includes the FBI, is in full resistance to disclosing what they did during the presidential campaign.

Sara Carter reports that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to release his report on the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Trump within weeks.

These investigations will hold those in the intelligence and law enforcement community accountable, depending on what evidence is discovered. This reporter is hearing from sources that it will be scathing. Those who abused their power and weaponized the tools meant to target America’s enemies against a political opponents should be held accountable.

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