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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

So you, TinTin, and the rest of the Republican Party are celebrating the fact that Mueller confirmed the following yesterday:

-Trump lied to you about being “totally” and “completely” exonerated
-Trump lied to you when calling the Russia thing a “hoax”
-Russia is still attacking us today
-the president and his team welcomed Russian help in 2016
-Mueller described Trump’s embrace of WikiLeaks as “problematic...which is an understatement”
-Trump lied to you and the American people about the depth of his relationship to Russia including his plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow worth close to a billion dollars

-he then obstructed the investigation into the issues above
-once again he lied to you about “total exoneration” on obstruction charges
-Mueller confirmed Trump can be charged for obstruction upon leaving office

Looks like y’all got fucking duped. The rest of us have been calling out this bullshit for years.

Sailor - a reminder that you’re being lied to.
 
You don’t see Trump hotels in rural areas or even many red cities. They could have cashed in big time with lower tier market discount Trump hotels and they didn’t even do that. Could have created jobs for the rubes and made money off them.

So maybe he's not the brilliant businessman that his supporters and defenders think he is? Who could have guessed?
 
Robert Mueller’s testimony to Congress, by any reasonable standard, should have been the swan song of the impeachment movement.

To state the obvious, there is no evidence that President Trump or any other American probed by the Mueller investigation conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election.

At worst, both campaigns were willing to take research on their opponents fed by Russians. On this score, it appears the Clinton campaign was far more successful, though the use of disguised campaign funds for this purpose has not yet been probed.

ROB REINER TO DEMS OPPOSING IMPEACHMENT: 'I'M SORRY IF YOU LOSE YOUR SEAT, BUT WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY'

I rejected the "collusion" theory early on based on two principal facts: 1) Any fair reading of the Steele dossier reveals it is ridiculous on its face, and 2) The texts from Lisa Page and Peter Strzok conclusively showed bias at work behind the scenes.

On top of these facts came the revelations that the dossier was all paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, and that it was all being fed to the FBI through the wife of a senior official who was also on the payroll of that same effort to discredit Trump.

For two years, I have had to qualify my beliefs with something like "subject to the findings of the Mueller report." Well, the Mueller report found nothing. There was no secret witness, no unearthed secret communications, no secret plot coordinated through hidden Trump Tower servers, no trips to Prague, no quid pro quos to remove sanctions.

So why does a third or more of the public still believe in Russia collusion? Because partisanship by our politicians and some in the media knows no bounds, and to partisans, facts and evidence are simply inconvenient bumps on a road to power.

That brings us back to the Mueller testimony and the Mueller Andrew Weissmann investigation. Mueller turned out to be the classic emperor-has-no-clothes witness. He once again said that he did not indict Trump because of the Justice Department policy against indicting a president only to once again retract the statement hours later.

He may be old, but he surely understood he was playing and retracting that card — he would have practiced that question 10 times as it was the only anti-Trump card remaining in his dwindling hand. He ignored that Attorney General William Barr, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and career Justice Department lawyers all determined that the facts he listed didn’t constitute criminal obstruction of justice.

The president was, as far as the Justice Department was concerned, cleared on obstruction of justice.

Mueller’s weak grasp of the facts, combined with his deputy Weissmann's documented history of prosecutorial abuse, strongly suggests Weissmann ran the investigation, not Mueller. It also indicates that Weissmann enjoyed free rein to go after not just the facts, but the people associated with the president.

Those people were systematically investigated for any and everything that may have gone wrong in their lives and put in a prosecutorial vice, and still Weissmann turned up nothing significant. He found that Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen and perhaps Gen. Michael Flynn had engaged in wrongdoing unrelated to the president. The rest were tripped up by the investigators themselves, who created crimes of intimidation.

Perhaps the most unfounded of all of these is the prosecution of Roger Stone. Finding nothing in his personal or business life to hold over his head, Weissmann combed through his congressional testimony to allege he was hiding his communications with Jerome Corsi. Even if true, it was of no significance to the investigation — Corsi has been widely banned from the internet for being something of a kook.

Nonetheless, scores of armed agents with amphibious units in tow took Stone down in full view of CNN, which just happened to be on the scene. Weissmann, applauded by partisans, will never face accountability for the abuse of civil liberties inherent in his entire investigative approach.

Having hit a dead end, the impeachment train is seeking new witnesses and new subpoenas to tie the president up in investigations and continue the empty threat of impeachment that has the support of about 25 percent of even the House of Representatives. Democratic candidates for president should be wary of all this rather than cheer it on. It’s one of them who might get elected and face midterm elections that flip Congress, and they will find themselves subject to retaliatory investigations normalized by events taking place today.

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Targeting political opponents through the legal and subpoena process after a massive investigation revealed no collusion undermines our democracy. It is a far greater threat to our country and its institutions than any ads on Facebook. Whether you think the FBI acted out of political malice (which is now being investigated) or a sense of duty, there is simply no evidence that the president ever committed a crime, or that his top aides were involved in collusion or conspiracy. Nothing of consequence alleged in the Steele dossier was ever proven true.

Mueller's testimony confirmed these basic facts, and it should put impeachment investigations in the rearview mirror.

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Mark Penn is managing director of the Stagwell Group. He was chief strategist on Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, and Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Follow him on Twitter @mark_penn
 
So you, TinTin, and the rest of the Republican Party are celebrating the fact that Mueller confirmed the following yesterday:

-Trump lied to you about being “totally” and “completely” exonerated
-Trump lied to you when calling the Russia thing a “hoax”
-Russia is still attacking us today
-the president and his team welcomed Russian help in 2016
-Mueller described Trump’s embrace of WikiLeaks as “problematic...which is an understatement”
-Trump lied to you and the American people about the depth of his relationship to Russia including his plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow worth close to a billion dollars

-he then obstructed the investigation into the issues above justice
-once again he lied to you about “total exoneration” on obstruction charges
-Mueller conformed Trump can be charged for obstruction upon leaving office

Looks like y’all got fucking duped. The rest of us have been calling out this bullshit for years.

Another reminder that Sailor’s Trumpist echo chamber has lied repeatedly to his face.
 
A little about Mark Penn:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...ist-mueller-investigation-donald-trump-219622

"If this bothers Penn, he doesn’t let on. In our interview, he even implied that he may have a new admirer in the Oval Office, possibly due to regular appearances on shows the president watches regularly, like “Fox & Friends” and “Mornings With Maria,” featuring the Trump-friendly Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo. “I don’t comment on whether I talk to people or not,” he says. “I don’t have any relationship with Trump. I never met the guy, but I’m not going to comment on whether anyone reaches out or not.” (A White House spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment about whether Trump had ever reached out to Penn.)"

" He took particular grief for a 2007 strategy memo that called for highlighting Barack Obama’s “lack of American roots.”

"“It’s hard being in a city where your own party shuns you,” observes Reines, who recalls that Penn was so reviled that he became a problem in retiring Clinton’s campaign debt after the 2008 defeat. “They had to pay back Mark last because people would not donate to pay off Mark,” Reines says. “They would make a point of telling people his debt would be last.”

"“He didn’t have a single day in office without being under investigation,” Penn says of the current president. “That’s an incredible weight on anyone trying to form a team, run a government, make decisions.”

He says people make a mistake in underestimating Trump. “He didn’t have a show on TV. He had the No. 1 show on TV,” Penn says. “He won an overwhelming victory.

Mark Penn is a delusional loser.
 
So you, TinTin, and the rest of the Republican Party are celebrating the fact that Mueller confirmed the following yesterday:

-Trump lied to you about being “totally” and “completely” exonerated
-Trump lied to you when calling the Russia thing a “hoax”
-Russia is still attacking us today
-the president and his team welcomed Russian help in 2016
-Mueller described Trump’s embrace of WikiLeaks as “problematic...which is an understatement”
-Trump lied to you and the American people about the depth of his relationship to Russia including his plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow worth close to a billion dollars

-he then obstructed the investigation into the issues above justice
-once again he lied to you about “total exoneration” on obstruction charges
-Mueller conformed Trump can be charged for obstruction upon leaving office

Looks like y’all got fucking duped. The rest of us have been calling out this bullshit for years.

Sailor, do you dispute any of this? If so, do you think mueller and his team lied?
 
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