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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
Published in Politics
Yes, and what if the moon were made of cheese? It’d be much harder to clear it of rats.
This is fun! Do another.
Gary is still pining for that long form birth certificate.
I wonder what will happen when he reads it?
Will Gary’s birtherism continue?
It does defy logic that the guy can openly campaign and contribute money for the (D)’s to win the 2018 Congress, then turn around and use the fact the (R)’s lost the 2018 Congress as a detriment attributable to the fact Trump is President.
Gary should be celebrating the 2108 election resulted in exactly the way he campaigned. If Gary actually desired an (R) majority in the House then logic dictates he would have campaigned and contributed money to the (R)’s …not the (D)’s.
In 2016, we won the total national House vote 49.1% to 48.0% for a 1.1% Republican advantage. In 2018, we lost the total national House vote 44.8% to 53.4% for a 8.6% Democrat advantage. This was an incredible 9.7% swing which is even more remarkable given that the electorate bends Republican in non-Presidential elections.
Supporting House Democrats in 2018 was caused by two factors, Trump’s authoritarian bullying, and the complete institutional lack of any check by Republicans in the House or Senate. If Trump was not so lacking in character, or there had been an institutional spine in Congress, I wouldn’t have been pushed to support Democrats for the House in 2018.
I did not support Democrats in the Senate. As Cocaine Mitch McConnell has said, the Senate is in the personnel business, most notably confirming Judges. My brother is a physician and he gives the over-under life expectancy for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (“RBG”) at 6 months. If so, I hope that Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett (“ACB”). That will be an epic battle.
I need someone to help me get really worried about this. I am just too stupid to see it.
That is because it wasn’t there.
Whoa! What is this “racialist” thing? I thought he was a r-r-r-racist! You mean someone who categorizes people based on their skin color and wants certain categories treated differently than others? I believe there’s a new word for that — “intersectionality” — and the outlook rules on the Left.
If Donald Trump is a racist, he’s a terribly bad one, given how blacks and browns are prospering right now in DT’s America. I don’t have a better insight on Donald Trump’s conscience than anyone else, but I suspect he wouldn’t care if you’re purple-skinned, so long as you make him look good (by achieving success). And I do have a little testimony to support the idea.
As for compromising material on his relationship with Russia, you’ll have to provide something factual, not out of the fevered imaginations (wishful thinking) of people who oppose Republicans and conservative constitutionalists at every turn. We know he tried to work a deal to build a hotel over there. Uh, so what? Building is what he does. What else you got?
You’re not living in 1980’s America anymore, Gary. The people and their voting habits have changed. You think Trump’s an albatross. Many of us think he’s the only Republican who could have beaten Hillary (because he fought her and the press when others would have been cowed — remember when he seated Bill Clinton’s victims as his guests at one of the debates??). And, despite his rough character, he’s doing a helluva job.
P.S. I love Vivian! She’s an American!!
It isn’t them, it is you.
It’s a term they use in Europe. It basically means someone that plays identity politics but isn’t a racist. I don’t agree with characterizing Trump that way, but it’s plausible.
I completely agree with this.
Gary hates President Trump for continuing Hillary’s birtherism.
To Gary, Trump = Birtherism.
What Gary doesn’t realize is that kompromat = birtherism.
Thus Gary commits the same sin as President Trump.
He brings it up all the time and I don’t get what he’s talking about. Plus, reportedly, it’s been notoriously absent for decades, generally, anyway.
I thought that Mueller finally put to bed this nonsense about “Kompromat,” a word that entered our collective vocabulary only a couple years ago, thanks to the efforts of the leftist media.
At least “birthers” had some grounds for being suspicious, given that Obama promoted himself as being a native Kenyan.
“Collusion-Truthers” have nothing.
Anything to sell the books man.
Most likely. I suspect that, like Fauxcahontas, he invented an exotic origin so that he could meet and have lunch with interesting people and advance further in academia. In the end, he was just a boring Red Diaper Baby.
Anytime Anti-Trumpers use the words kompromat or Charlottesville, I know that we’re about to get a pile of nonsense built on a foundation of lies.
The 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951. Since then, like clockwork, the American voters have alternated between the Republican and Democratic parties every 8 years, with only two exceptions, both involving the Greatest President of the Twentieth Century, with Ronald Reagan cutting the Democrats short in 1980, and H.W. essentially winning Reagan’s third term. I assert that any of the 17 Republican candidates would have won in 2016, and only Trump would manage to lose the popular vote.
What bugs me about birtherism and its critics is it misses the point of “natural born” citizenship. Barack Obama’s father was an outspoken commie and his mother was an anti-American leftist. His white grandparents (who he threw under the bus to get elected) made sure to give him a black role model in Frank Marshall Davis — an anti-American commie. The question of the geography of his birth is pointless. The question of his loyalties is everything. He ably represented the interests of Iran, the UN (globalists), the Russians… the US? Not so much.
The Fine People hoax. Was clearly a hoax all along, yet people even here insisted he called white supremacists fine people. Never happened.
None of them had the monties to even play on the same field as Hillary and the Left. They’re still trying to be the “new” Reagan in a world of smash-mouth, put your opponent’s husband’s rape victims in the front row at a debate.
Non-falsifiable theories are comforting, I suppose.
Ricochet Editor Jon Gabriel has posted about AG Barr’s 4 page letter, and there is a hyperlink to a PDF of it.
I suggest that you go to the source material, namely the 4 page PDF that Ricochet Editor Jon Gabriel has a hyperlink to.
When you have nothing else.
You were wrong about Reagan, too.
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That was awesome.
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Rude ad-hominem[redacted].Let’s all go read the doggone pdf.
Yes. Yes it was. That’s when I thought he might have a chance.
I hate thinking about and analyzing this stuff, but this really is an issue. I wish it were different, but it isn’t.