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Here is the one hundred fifty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Republican Disinformation Officer Sarah Upchuckabee Sanders. She is so honored for lying repeatedly in service of her adored Fuhrer and the Republican Reich.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders was caught lying several times in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and now she’s defending herself with more misdirections.

During a string of media appearances following the release of the Mueller report on Thursday, Sanders has faced questions about a claim she made during a May 2017 press briefing that she later admitted was false during testimony to Mueller’s team. In an attempt to justify President Donald Trump’s decision to fire then FBI director James Comey, Sanders told reporters that “countless members of the FBI” had contacted her to say they had lost confidence in Comey, when in fact that wasn’t the case.

On Thursday evening and Friday morning, Sanders repeatedly downplayed that lie as a mere “slip of the tongue.” But as ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out to her in an interview on Friday morning, she used the line about “countless members of the FBI” multiple times in the days following Comey’s firing — a revelation undercutting her claim that she merely misspoke.

“You said it was a ‘slip of the tongue’ when you talked about ‘countless FBI members,’ yet you repeated it twice the very next day,” Stephanopoulos said. “That’s not a slip of the tongue, Sarah, that’s a deliberate false statement.”

Sanders, however, refused to own it, and bizarrely blamed her lie on Democrats….  [emphasis added]

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Well, I suppose it was “countless” to the extent that one cannot count to zero.

Lawrence O’Donnell has more.

Here’s what amazes me most.  I can’t believe that this is Upchuckabee’s first parade?  How did such an obvious recipient slip under my radar for so long?!!? I’m so ashamed!

RESIST!!

The Mueller Report was not as redacted as many expected, myself included.  It lays out a compelling case for future charges of Obstruction of Justice against Putin’s Puppet, Resident Donald Trump, aka the Orange Obstructer.  Despite a centrist article and over 50 minutes of video coverage, we are barely scratching the surface here.  I can promise more coverage over time.

For nearly a month, the American public has been under the impression, thanks to a four-page “summary” by Attorney General William Barr, that Robert Mueller could not decide whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice because of “difficult questions of law and fact.” Barr suggested that the special counsel, after 22 months of investigation, simply couldn’t make up his mind and left it to his boss to decide.

Now that we have seen almost the entire report of more than 400 pages, we know Barr intentionally misled the American people about Mueller’s findings and his legal reasoning. As a former federal prosecutor, when I look at Mueller’s work, I don’t see a murky set of facts. I see a case meticulously laid out by a prosecutor who knew he was not allowed to bring it.

Mueller’s report detailed extraordinary efforts by Trump to abuse his power as president to undermine Mueller’s investigation. The case is so detailed that it is hard to escape the conclusion that Mueller could have indicted and convicted Trump for obstruction of justice—if he were permitted to do so. And the reason he is not permitted to do so is very clear: Department of Justice policy prohibits the indictment of a sitting president.

Mueller still could have reached a conclusion regarding obstruction of justice, but he believed it would be unfair to reach a conclusion that Trump could not rebut in court. How do we know this? Because Mueller says it. If he had reached a conclusion that Trump obstructed justice, Mueller wrote, Trump could not go to court to obtain a “speedy and public trial” with the “procedural protections” afforded to a criminal defendant by the Constitution…. [emphasis added]

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There’s no way around it.  Barrf lied.

To detail chargeable crimes in the report, here are two video clips.  The first is from Rachel Maddow.

The second is from Jesse Dollemore.  His channel is here.

Next, now that we know, what do we do about it?  Jerry Nadler [D-NY] has subpoenaed the full Mueller Report.  That’s a good move, but the Republican Reich will tie that up in court for months.  The best way for Congress to see the entire report is to open an impeachment investigation.  That provides Congress the legal standing to be granted access to the report and all underlying  material.  If we don’t have the support of enough Senate Republicans to convict, for their own self-preservation, there’s no need to conclude the investigation with Articles of Impeachment.

My biggest concern is, if Trump gets away with this, it will embolden future Republicans to commit even more heinous crimes.

RESIST!!

UPDATE NOTE: I have edited this post so that BOTH the TEXT ABOUT and the PHOTO of Notre Dame are LINKS to the interactive, zoomable 360-degree aerial picture.  It truly is worth a Look-See!

This will be fairly brief because I’m still dizzy from shaking my head so much in disbelief over what America’s Attorney General – TWITLER’S attorney, Bill Barr, did yesterday in his Spin Zone rollout Whitewash Coverup of the Mueller Report.

How Barr justifies giving Twitler a total pass in his own unbelievable words: “… there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered….”

Well, Hell’s Bells – I didn’t realize that Twitler was “FRUSTRATED” and “ANGRY” about the Special Counsel Investigation … did you?

Golly gee, that changes everything.  Absolutely: NO COLLUSION – NO OBSTRUCTION!  Constitutional crisis avoided.

Moving on, and just to reinforce the fact that I actually do have real compassion (just not for Twitler), here’s a touching video of someone caring for a bee who had no wings.  A lesson worth sharing.  (You might want to have a hanky handy.)

We’ve all been saddened by the damage that a fire has done to Notre Dame Cathedral.  But here is a fascinating 360-Degree Interactive, Zoomable Aerial View of Paris centered on the charred remains.  I think it’s best to view full-screen.

NOTE: Sorry for the confusion.  The above, bolded description of the site is the Link.  

BUT I’ve now also made the photo itself a link.  But you’ll have to do a right-click “Open In New Tab” or “Open In New Window” because if you click on the photo itself – it’ll open the whole page as a new window.

Just grab the picture with your cursor and move it around.  To Zoom in and out, use the scroll-wheel on your mouse.  And if you don’t have scroll-wheel, then use the “+” and “-” signs on the keyboard.

NSFW – My Righteous Rant That Is NOT SAFE FOR WORK

Just like Twitler, I, too, am frustrated and angry – and I’m going to relieve some of that frustration and anger by venting a bit.

My current favorite part of the whole Mueller Report is this passage on page 290 (or page 78 of Vol. II):

… when Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’ m fucked.”

That is NOT a phase an innocent person would ever utter.  So let’s see what some folks have done with Twitler’s actual admission of guilt …

Taking a page from Twitler’s own playbook, the “Game of Thrones” was used a couple of times:

And one I like even better:

And here’s Twitler issuing another of his Executive Orders:

But given how Barr handled – and most likely will continue to handle – the Mueller Report, I guess Melania can offer a pithy summary of where our country is at … at least for the immediate time being:

I don’t plan to comment on Rachel Maddow’s Peabody Award nominated podcasts. I’m sharing them solely because you deserve to hear them. This is the last episode.

Bag Man Podcast – Episode 7: You Can’t Fire Me — I Quit

RESIST!!