{"id":36280,"date":"2019-04-19T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36280"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:15:00","slug":"the-mueller-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/the-mueller-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mueller Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1019Obstruction\" <\/p>\n

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 \u201cdifficult questions of law and fact.\u201d Barr suggested that the special counsel, after 22 months of investigation, simply couldn\u2019t make up his mind and left it to his boss to decide<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Now that we have seen almost the entire report of more than 400 pages, we know Barr intentionally misled the American people about Mueller\u2019s findings and his legal reasoning<\/strong>. As a former federal prosecutor, when I look at Mueller\u2019s work, I don\u2019t 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. <\/p>\n

Mueller\u2019s report detailed extraordinary efforts by Trump to abuse his power as president to undermine Mueller\u2019s 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\u2014if he were permitted to do so<\/strong>. And the reason he is not permitted to do so is very clear: Department of Justice policy prohibits the indictment of a sitting president<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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 \u201cspeedy and public trial\u201d with the \u201cprocedural protections\u201d afforded to a criminal defendant by the Constitution…. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There’s no way around it.  Barrf lied.<\/font><\/p>\n

To detail chargeable crimes in the report, here are two video clips.  The first is from Rachel Maddow<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n