{"id":37147,"date":"2019-07-23T10:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37147"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:01:51","slug":"a-muzzle-on-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/a-muzzle-on-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"A Muzzle on Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer of the Republican Reich. Resident Collusion and Obstruction, and his personal lawyer, Sycophant Barrf, are worried.&nbsp; Barrf spun the Mueller Report so well that many Americans think the report cleared Trump, and most have no idea what is actually in the report.&nbsp; The Fuhrer and his lackey want to keep it that way, and Mueller&#8217;s testimony before The House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees tomorrow could threaten their lies.&nbsp; Their solution is to put a muzzle on Mueller.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0723Mueller\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0723Mueller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/0723Mueller.jpg\" width=\"789\" height=\"460\">  <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Mueller, Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer said his testimony set for Wednesday \u201cmust <strong>remain within the boundaries of your public report<\/strong> because matters within the scope of your investigation were covered by executive privilege.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The letter said \u201c<strong>these privileges would include discussion about investigative steps or decisions made during your investigation not otherwise described in the public version of your report<\/strong>.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Mueller completed in March his nearly two-year-long probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-mueller\/u-s-justice-department-tells-mueller-to-limit-congressional-testimony-idUSKCN1UH2KI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It also forbid the discussion of the actions of all unindicted persons.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j5cr6M_ohBg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> has a detailed analysis.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/j5cr6M_ohBg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The unfortunate thing is that Mueller will follow orders.&nbsp; He could just ignore the letter, legally, but that&#8217;s not his way.&nbsp; Democrats on those committees need to avoid beating their heads against a wall.&nbsp; They need to find out what he will say and get it on the record.&nbsp; Two questions I think he will answer are: &#8220;Did your report clear Trump of collusion and obstruction of justice?&#8221; and &#8220;Is &#8216;No collusion, no obstruction&#8217; an accurate summary of your work?&#8221;&nbsp; We could use that clip until election day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hope for the best.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fuhrer of the Republican Reich. Resident Collusion and Obstruction, and his personal lawyer, Sycophant Barrf, are worried.&nbsp; Barrf spun the Mueller Report so well that many Americans think the report cleared Trump, and most have no idea what is actually in the report.&nbsp; The Fuhrer and his lackey want to keep it that way, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/a-muzzle-on-mueller\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}