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Robert Mueller Delivers Report to Attorney General
According to news reports, Robert Mueller has delivered a report to Attorney General Bill Barr. Fox News:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted to Attorney General Bill Barr his long-awaited report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race and possible collusion with Trump associates — marking the end of the politically explosive probe and the beginning of a new battle over its contents and implications. Mueller is “not recommending any further indictments,” a senior DOJ official told Fox News.
The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course. The White House has not received or been briefed on the Special Counsel’s report.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 22, 2019
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Somehow, through the marketplace doing what it does I suppose, I have become a near daily consumer of the Dan Bongino Show (ie: listen/watch on You Tube) …..
While I’m sure there are “some” who might be turned off by Bongino’s enthusiasm for Trump, I find I like what Bongino has to say and very much appreciate his near daily coverage of the DOJ/FBI/IC malfeasance. Given his Spygate book(books) on the matter, he appears to have an excellent grasp of the subject, as well as what are proving to be reliable sources, which is useful to those of us seeking information on this colossal scandal.
My guess is the report itself is written in such a way as to cast the worst possible light on Trump and his associates even though the Mueller Gang could not get the legal goods on their enemy. That way. if it is released or leaked in part (and you can bet if it leaks it will contain the parts that look worst for Trump) it can provide further grist for the mill for the Democrats and media.
Bongino’s podcast is excellent.
It is just insanely naïve to trust centralized power. Screw those people.
And Mueller is a registered Republican.
This will be the end of the Republican Party, and will lead to the loss of the Senate, more Governors, more House members and maybe another 400 legislators.
I am looking forward to the release of the Mueller Report, and am withholding judgment until I have read it.
Gary
I’m sorry . . . what will be the end of the Republican Party? I’ve been watching basketball all day and can’t figure out which cataclysmic event is today’s end of the party.
If the Republican Party ends, then yeah, I would expect a dramatic impact on the number of seats that they hold.
Explain.
P.S. You know me needs a check? The FBI and the DOJ.
P.P.S. Check out The Death of Stalin when you get a chance.
The renomination of Trump.
I think that you might be a wiser person than me!
We lost the House of Representatives in 2018. We lost 7 governorship’s. We have lost 400 legislators in Trump’s first two years.
If Ned Ryun follows through on his tweet, that is what will happen. Good to know. I never would’ve thought of that.
In 2016, we won the gross House of Representatives vote 49.1% to 48.0% for a 1.1% advantage.
In 2018, we lost the gross House of Representatives vote 53.4% to 44.8% for a 8.6% deficit. The 2018 election was a referendum on Trump. We lost women, the educated, the young and the suburbs.
This was a 9.7% swing between 2016 and 2018! We cannot survive as a party with Trump as our leader.
That is a total non sequitur in my opinion.
Past performance is not indicative of future results, but you could have trotted the same argument out 36 years ago following the midterm of results of 1982 and said we’ve just got to primary Reagan in 1984 or the Republican Party will cease to exist as we know it.
You wanted Republicans to lose it. That’s the sort of Republican you are.
Thanks. Are you assuming that he loses when you say that?
Ain’t touchin’ that one.
Yes, because the Republicans in the House and Senate fully failed to provide an institutional check on Trump. On the other hand, I recommended voting for the Republicans in the Senate and I did so. I also voted for our Republican Governor.
@garyrobbins, your comments always fail to address how so-called “Reagan” Republicans’ lying promises and failure to deliver squat cannot be an explanation for any electoral loss. It is just always “Trump!”
Right now Trump has delivered on more of what he promised than did either Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, or the sainted John McCain. But it is always and ever “Trump!” (sigh)
This is so incredibly old. You keep making the same excuse, so I’ll keep asking the same question: What institutional check did you want House Republicans to provide?? What policies? I don’t think they have the authority to ban him from Twitter.
Who cares? You keep complaining about losing the House, yet that’s what you wanted. Apparently you wanted it not to “provide an institutional check on Trump” (whatever that means) but that so you’d have something to add to your laundry list of why the Orange Man is Bad.
I’ll say it again: you knowingly encouraged and voted for a group of commie-socialist Jew-hating, baby-killing racists to take control of the House. What moral principles guided that decision?
Trump has produced results in the areas of judges, taxes and regulations. Good on him.
But Trump has the most flawed character of any Republican President, including Nixon.
For starters, how about voting for the resolution of disapproval on Trump’s declaration of emergency?
Given that you encouraged the takeover of the House by Jew-hating baby-killing gun-grabbing racists, I don’t think you have any basis for judging someone else’s character.
So, frick’n, what? Better a flawed warrior attacking the right enemy than a sainted eunuch tsk tsk-ing the persistent slide into tyranny. “Good on him” is all I am looking for. The rest is irrelevant.
You got your wish (which happened after the 2018 election). As they say, see you in court.
Tell us more about how your principles required you to vote for the party that wants to enact the crazy “Green New Deal.”
Tell us more about how your principles required you to vote for the party that claims Jews are hypnotizing the world.
Tell us more about how your principles required you to vote for the party of abortion at any time for any reason up to — and even after — the moment of birth.
I’m interesting in knowing how you reconcile these things while still claiming to be a “Reagan Republican.”
Or rather, “See you in New Hampshire!”
I don’t support that.
I don’t support that.
I don’t support that.
Each party has their failings. The Democrats on issues of policy. The Republicans on completely failing to be an independent branch of government.