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seacoaster wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:39 pm Frank Bruni's Wednesday Newsletter:

"Orangeman bad."

dislaxxic wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:37 am THE MANY SIDED STONE: THE INVESTIGATION IS NOT OVER

Mueller may be done, but the prosecutors are not...

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...and reports of Pompeo also meeting with Barr today.

6ftstick wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:41 pm

seacoaster wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:39 pm Frank Bruni's Wednesday Newsletter:

"I have an odd request, and it concerns Robert Mueller’s report, a redacted version of which will be released by the Justice Department tomorrow.

Please ignore it.

Maybe not “ignore” — I’m overstating my case — but please stop treating or at least talking about it as the referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency. Please stop casting or letting others cast it as some definitive judgment about the wrongness or rightness of his ascent to the White House, as some binding verdict on whether his behavior there has gone beyond the pale.

Do you — does anyone — really need the work of Mueller and his team to come to a conclusion about that? How important is evidence not yet revealed when so much of what Trump does is conspicuous, when the essence of his character is proudly unhidden? You know it from his words, spoken and tweeted and intemperate to the point of viciousness. You know it from his aides, current and former, whose nagging senses of patriotism and propriety lead them to leak about the extreme requests that he has made and that they have thwarted.

You know it in your bones.

And that’s the problem with the Mueller obsession. It implies that Trump is defined by whether he actively conspired with Russian officials to attain power. It suggests that the jury on his integrity is out, that the puzzle of his full nature is unsolved.

Are there missing pieces, without which exact degrees of malfeasance can’t be determined? Yes. And some of them will probably be missing forever.
But they’re not necessary, not to appraise him morally as opposed to criminally.

From his spasmodic activism before he formally entered politics, from his furious campaign for the presidency and from his two and a quarter years in office, you have the truth of Trump. You need nothing more to decide that he has been persecuted and is no worse in his way than other presidents were in theirs, or to take a darker view, which I do.

To discuss the Mueller report as some climax and turning point is to empower various partisans — the president and his supporters chief among them — in their efforts to parse and characterize it to their liking and turn it into propaganda for that small but pivotal minority of Americans whose votes in 2020 aren’t foreordained.

That lets political gamesmanship and public relations eclipse common sense. And it’s no way to make America sane again."

Sounds like Franks got an inkling the report will have nothing in it. So who needs to concentrate on an investigation thats held libs breathless for nearly 3 years. That stifled any forward movement by an administration that was accomplishing a great deal.

Nahhh we ain't got to show you no stinking report!

old salt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:15 pm...makes one wonder if Barr has some surprises in store for his press conf.

old salt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:15 pm
This rollout is driving the (D)'s & MSM nuts. They come unglued when they can't drive the narrative, ..

DMac wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:09 am Well, there you go, the Prez is clean as a whistle, a stand up guy, a person integrity and high moral standards.
Hope Barr had a paper towel and wet wipe to clean up with after stroking the Prez.

Chips O'Toole wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:14 am

DMac wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:09 am Well, there you go, the Prez is clean as a whistle, a stand up guy, a person integrity and high moral standards.
Hope Barr had a paper towel and wet wipe to clean up with after stroking the Prez.

Unreal. Even State TV was taken aback by that performance.

Chips O'Toole wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:14 amSurprises? He's going to smear a bunch of poo on the walls about the origins of this entire investigation. After accusing his own FBI of spying on the Trump campaign, this clown could walk out at 9:30 wearing a XXL QANON t-shirt he stole from RandyRad's dirty-clothes hamper and we shouldn't be surprised. No, there will be no surprises.

CU88 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:05 am https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

CU88 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:05 am https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

DMac wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:09 am Well, there you go, the Prez is clean as a whistle, a stand up guy, a person integrity and high moral standards.
Hope Barr had a paper towel and wet wipe to clean up with after stroking the Prez.

holmes435 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:47 am Mueller referred 14 investigations to other offices that didn't fall under the Russia investigation, 12 of which are redacted.

Mueller suggested Congress could take action on at least 10 instances of obstruction of Justice (which Barr lied about).

'Mueller's office says they weighed charging Trump with obstruction, but didn’t in part because “we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President’s capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional process for addressing presidential misconduct.”'

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has the authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice."

Donald Trump: “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f*cked.” - Direct quote on page 290 - https://i.imgur.com/LZR6P3j.png

Page 158: "The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."



Grab your popcorn folks, this is going to be a wild ride either way.

holmes435 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:47 am Mueller referred 14 investigations to other offices that didn't fall under the Russia investigation, 12 of which are redacted.