Notes on the released Mueller Report

Democrats are leading an effort to discredit the report findings from Special Counsel Robert Mueller concerning Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, but it seems their excuses don't hold up to scrutiny.

Painting Attorney General William Barr as a partisan covering for President Donald Trump has been a familiar attack. On Wednesday night, for example, Democrat Rep. David Cicilline (RI) tweeted: "Reminder that what we see tomorrow is only 'William Barr’s Redacted Version of the Mueller Report.' He should release the entire report to Congress sooner rather than later. He should release the entire report to Congress sooner rather than later."

As noted by Fox News host Bret Baier, such a line of attack is silly, since Mueller — who has been praised by Democrats as someone who lives up to the highest degree of professionalism — has been working alongside Mr. Barr to redact the report.

"You and others have made that case, Congressman -- but, it's also worth noting --as the AG said in his sworn testimony & wrote in his letter to the Judiciary Committees... that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has also been working on redacting his team's report alongside AG Barr," responded Baier.

David Cicilline replied- "Reminder that what we see tomorrow is only “William Barr’s Redacted Version of the Mueller Report. He should release the entire report to Congress sooner rather than later."

As noted by Mr. Baier, a letter from Barr to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees dated March 29 said that Mueller was indeed helping with the process to redact the report.

"We are preparing the report for release, making the redactions that are required. The Special Counsel is assisting us in this process," the letter says, before stating four specific areas the team was "well along in the process of identifying and redacting."

Moreover, as Barr explained during a presser concerting the release of the report on Thursday morning, not a single redaction was made based on President Trump asserting executive privilege. "White House counsel reviewed a redacted version of the report before Trump decided not to invoke executive privilege," reported PBS.

NOT ONCE DID President Trump assert executive privilege.

"No material has been redacted based on executive privilege," Barr explicitly told the media.

The attorney general also reconfirmed at the press briefing that "the special counsel found no evidence that any American, including anyone associated with the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.”

Barr said there was not sufficient evidence concerning obstruction of justice:

“Office of Legal Counsel and other Department lawyers, the Deputy Attorney General and I concluded that the evidence developed by the Special Counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense," he said at the briefing, as reported by The Daily Wire on Thursday.

“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,” Barr continued. “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.”

HOW DOES ONE OBSTRUCT JUSTICE FOR A NON-EXSISTANT CRIME?

Trump as worried about the political impact this investigation will have on him and his ability to govern. He is reacting exactly as anyone else might react to an IRS audit. You might say "I'm f***ed" about an audit not because you're guilty of tax evasion, but because the whole process will be extremely unpleasant and painful and inconvenient. The fact that Trump is expressly worried about that practical and political damage the investigation might do, and not about what might be found out, only serves to underscore his innocence. But that, of course, is not how the media will play it.

The only thing Trump obstructed is Hillary moving BACK into the White House.

Content and Intent is no longer required to brand your political foe with anything.

What you are saying here is that the cover-up was worse than the non-crime.

The Trump-Russia Collusion Claims Were Farcically Overblown. In the report it states: The claims that Trump was a nefarious Russian agent were comically exaggerated. The Mueller report itself makes this clear and the report makes similar statements repeatedly.

The Steele dossier – the intelligence mishmash funneled to Obama intelligence agencies via Fusion GPS – barely comes up in the Mueller report. Yet it was used repeatedly as the basis for a FISA warrant against Carter Page, and was presented directly to President Trump by former FBI director James Comey, then reported on broadly in the press. This raises serious questions as to how much the investigation morphed over time into an attempt to “get” the Trump campaign – just how eager were members of the FBI (say, Peter Strzok) to place extra weight on a dubious document of oppo research origin?

Team Mueller Has An Extraordinarily Broad Definition Of Obstruction Of Justice. The President does have First Amendment rights. To suggest that public criticism of Robert Mueller or public praise of Paul Manafort amounts to criminal obstruction of justice requires an extraordinarily broad reading of obstruction of justice statutes.

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What is Donald Trump guilty of?

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, behaved as any innocent man would, behave having been framed by fabricated propaganda prepared by foreign intelligence agents and paid for by his political enemies.

He behaved as any innocent man might when prosecutors hounding him were enabled and appointed by his political enemies. He behaved as any innocent man might when he realized that his prosecutors included the chief counsel of the Clinton Family Foundation and Barack Obama's deputy assistant attorney general and that the chief witness against him was represented by Hillary Clinton's longstanding lawyer whom the Washington Post called "The Ultimate Clinton Loyalist."

He acted as any innocent man might who realized that his home, phone lines, offices, and associates were being spied on, wiretapped, surveilled, followed, photographed, and even infiltrated by paid spies and foreign agents sent by his domestic political enemies who deliberately set him and his family up in a sting operation. Meanwhile, the selfsame people vehemently denied that the spying took place.

In other words, he acted against the blatant injustice by pushing back against criminal operatives conspiring to frame him.

He acted as any innocent man might who realized he was being framed for a crime his framers, rather than he himself, committed: collusion with Russia, treason of which he was accused publicly by top-level intel agents working for the media, a former president, and the opposition candidate. Trump objected to the coordination, collusion, and conspiracy among his political enemies to commit a crime against himself, the office of the presidency, the American People, and democracy — first, to frame the candidate for the nation's highest office, and second, to frame the president now sitting in the nation's highest office.

The president is guilty of self-defense.

He is guilty for fighting fictional, fabricated, and false charges against himself for crimes he's innocent of.

He's guilty of feeling sincere frustration against the daily, persistent, and disingenuous political attacks, lies, and speculation; he's guilty for expressing opinion. He's guilty for protesting the dishonest witch hunt that is nothing more than revenge for his 2016 victory and his subsequent astonishing successes. He's guilty of sincerity and honesty, for thinking he's being unjustly prosecuted and framed by corrupt officials of a corrupt-to-the-core party, some of whom profess to belong to his party but are, actually, working actively against it.

He acted as any innocent man might who would deny the preposterous charges made against him by serious people formerly in power whose favored candidate lost. He acted as any innocent man might who would object to the methods by which these charges were fabricated out of thin air, paid for by the political opposition, manipulated by the media, the goal posts frequently moved, and how the transparent politically motivated story du jour was amplified, distributed, and spun.

He acted as any innocent man should act — by pushing back.

He acted by refusing to lie down while being steamrolled.

He acted by refusing to be railroaded into criminality not of his making.

He acted as any innocent man should, by trying to obstruct injustice.

This is the injustice against his person, integrity, and performance, the injustice of being framed by greedy, self-dealing, soulless, and cowardly criminals not fit to shine his shoes. These are criminals who paid for the fabricated pack of lies and evidence illegally obtained. They deliberately and speciously persecuted him, knowing he was innocent. They, along with their media associates, coordinated, colluded, and conspired among themselves and with foreign agents to give the false impression to the nation that the president obstructed justice by vocally objecting to the three-year-long witch hunt against him, his family and associates, and the American people.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, behaved as any innocent man would, behave having been framed by fabricated propaganda prepared by foreign intelligence agents and paid for by his political enemies.

He behaved as any innocent man might when prosecutors hounding him were enabled and appointed by his political enemies. He behaved as any innocent man might when he realized that his prosecutors included the chief counsel of the Clinton Family Foundation and Barack Obama's deputy assistant attorney general and that the chief witness against him was represented by Hillary Clinton's longstanding lawyer whom the Washington Post called "The Ultimate Clinton Loyalist."

He acted as any innocent man might who realized that his home, phone lines, offices, and associates were being spied on, wiretapped, surveilled, followed, photographed, and even infiltrated by paid spies and foreign agents sent by his domestic political enemies who deliberately set him and his family up in a sting operation. Meanwhile, the selfsame people vehemently denied that the spying took place.

In other words, he acted against the blatant injustice by pushing back against criminal operatives conspiring to frame him.

He acted as any innocent man might who realized he was being framed for a crime his framers, rather than he himself, committed: collusion with Russia, treason of which he was accused publicly by top-level intel agents working for the media, a former president, and the opposition candidate. Trump objected to the coordination, collusion, and conspiracy among his political enemies to commit a crime against himself, the office of the presidency, the American People, and democracy — first, to frame the candidate for the nation's highest office, and second, to frame the president now sitting in the nation's highest office.

The president is guilty of self-defense.

He is guilty for fighting fictional, fabricated, and false charges against himself for crimes he's innocent of.

He's guilty of feeling sincere frustration against the daily, persistent, and disingenuous political attacks, lies, and speculation; he's guilty for expressing opinion. He's guilty for protesting the dishonest witch hunt that is nothing more than revenge for his 2016 victory and his subsequent astonishing successes. He's guilty of sincerity and honesty, for thinking he's being unjustly prosecuted and framed by corrupt officials of a corrupt-to-the-core party, some of whom profess to belong to his party but are, actually, working actively against it.

He acted as any innocent man might who would deny the preposterous charges made against him by serious people formerly in power whose favored candidate lost. He acted as any innocent man might who would object to the methods by which these charges were fabricated out of thin air, paid for by the political opposition, manipulated by the media, the goal posts frequently moved, and how the transparent politically motivated story du jour was amplified, distributed, and spun.

He acted as any innocent man should act — by pushing back.

He acted by refusing to lie down while being steamrolled.

He acted by refusing to be railroaded into criminality not of his making.

He acted as any innocent man should, by trying to obstruct injustice.

This is the injustice against his person, integrity, and performance, the injustice of being framed by greedy, self-dealing, soulless, and cowardly criminals not fit to shine his shoes. These are criminals who paid for the fabricated pack of lies and evidence illegally obtained. They deliberately and speciously persecuted him, knowing he was innocent. They, along with their media associates, coordinated, colluded, and conspired among themselves and with foreign agents to give the false impression to the nation that the president obstructed justice by vocally objecting to the three-year-long witch hunt against him, his family and associates, and the American people