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I agree a thorough investigation of how this investigation started is called for, and I hope Mr. Barr conducts it. But I don't think the intelligentsia were completely hysterical watching Trump and Bannon come into office and thinking there was an unbalanced demagogue that had slipped past the safeguards the Founders intended. In his first week and month of office I sincerely thought there was a good chance this man could not tell reality from delusion, whether it was the crowd size of his inaugural or short-circuiting due process with the Moslem Ban. Bannon openly said his goal was to be the tribune of the Alt-Right, and NeverTrump Americans were supposed to shrug these off as peccadilloes.

Peter gets outraged that Mueller treated his report as something different than searching for time-clock abuse by poultry inspectors; that Mueller laid out in detail Trump's multiple illegal actions like trying to fabricate false documentation, yet he's totally sanguine about the fact that our President has at least as bad character, as low ethics and morals, and is at least as untrustworthy as Jussie Smollett. I will never understand it.

Seems to me some people in Britain and the US see democracy and the Constitution as just a useful façade to keep the masses in line while they do what they think is really right and best for everyone. They ask the people who they want for President but if the answer is Trump, they think they know better and work to get rid of him without those risky elections. And in Britain they asked the people if they wanted to leave and didn't get the answer the "experts" wanted so they try to get around that. The people don't always get it right, but they don't always get it wrong.

I agree that the best way to get rid of Trump is to vote him out and I'd dearly like to do that. But not if it means voting in the left wing lunatics that comprise the Democrat Party. They voted against Trump in Virginia when he wasn't even on the ballot and ended up with a racist, infanticide loving governor and a Lt. Gov. who makes Trump look like a choir boy in his dealings with women.

I like the recommendation to relax and not worry but I worry. Comes from being a grandma I suppose.

Petty Boozswha (View Comment):

I will never understand it.

Here’s what I will never understand: People who believe that this report is a 100% true statement of facts. Like any prosecutorial document it is a one-sided list of accusations. To say that the document “proved” anything is not how it works. It’s not how any of it works. That’s why the concepts of American juris prudence are so important. There are too many that have proceeded from accusation to hanging. Most of those who scream the loudest about Trump’s lawlessness have all the demeanor of the Queen in Wonderland. Get to the other side of the looking glass.

Petty Boozswha (View Comment):
I will never understand it.

EJHill (View Comment):

Here’s what I will never understand: People who believe that this report is a 100% true statement of facts. Like any prosecutorial document it is a one-sided list of accusations. To say that the document “proved” anything is not how it works. It’s not how any of it works. That’s why the concepts of American juris prudence are so important. There are too many that have proceeded from accusation to hanging. Most of those who scream the loudest about Trump’s lawlessness have all the demeanor of the Queen in Wonderland. Get to the other side of the looking glass.

The charges were based on 30 hours of testimony by Don McGahn, Trump's own attorney.