Mueller report slam dunk vindication of President Trump

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Mueller report slam dunk vindication of President Trump

By Rick Manning


Robert Mueller’s report is a slam dunk vindication of President Trump, who was the victim of an intelligence agency operation designed to entrap him and those around him in process crime snares, even as they knew that there was not a sufficient basis to say there was any conspiracy by Trump, his campaign or any American with Russia to interfere with the election. Mueller himself writes that “the evidence was not sufficient to charge that any member of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with representatives of the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election,”which was defined as operations to do with hacking the DNC and John Podesta emails and an inconsequential social media campaign by a Russian company.

This is unequivocal, but not a surprise to anyone who was not profiteering off of this fake news driven conspiracy theory. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who is no friend to President Trump, said in March 2017, “We had no evidence of collusion.”
Additionally, lead FBI investigator and proven Trump hater, Peter Strzok texted his then lover, FBI agent Lisa Page, that “there’s no big there there” in talking about the Russia case.

And even former CIA Director Michael Morell is quoted in March 2017 as saying, “There is no fire, at all.”

Yet our nation and those associated with the Trump campaign, transition team and administration were subjected to about a three-year long investigation, including nearly two years by a special counsel who was appointed to investigate something that everyone knew was false.

Professional Trump critics like former CIA Director John Brennan were regulars on MSNBC stoking the collusion fires later claiming that he perhaps had ‘bad information.’ The partisan media outlets like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC along with the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting taxpayer funded hierarchy breathlessly repeated planted rumor after planted rumor promising viewers that this time, they really had Donald Trump.

And today in the aftermath of the collapse of their delusion, they cling to their age old approach to attack the messenger, Attorney General William Barr, because the pedestal they had built for the special counsel was too high for them to tear down in time to not have egg on their faces.

No conspiracy with Russia by Trump is great news for America. One could hope that the left-wing corporate media machines will learn a lesson and return to journalism, but that is not what they are — instead they are advocates getting paid to culturally transform America. If anything good is to come out of this national embarrassment, it is my hope that the media emperors who have been running around with no clothes are finally seen for the frauds that they are, and as a result, the public denies them the one thing they need — viewers and listeners. In doing so those who have perpetuated this Russian collusion fraud through hours upon hours of anti-Trump coverage will be denied the dollars from selling soap to those very viewers who they colluded to trick into believing that Donald Trump was a traitor to his country.

Now, the Attorney General needs to get to work to determine who abused the legal protections in place to stop this kind of intelligence abuse and take all available measures against them to make certain that this never happens again, as well as recommend reforms to ensure that the FISA Court ceases to be a rubber stamp for spying.

Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.

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Is Trump out of the woods? Key takeaways from Mueller’s Russia findings
By: Chad Day - Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller spent 22 months examining whether Donald Trump's campaign conspired with Russia to sway the 2016 election.

His conclusion? No collusion.

But the question of whether Trump obstructed justice wasn't so clear cut. In laying out Mueller's findings , Attorney General William Barr said the special counsel didn't weigh in on the question. Instead, Barr ultimately made the call that Trump didn't violate the law, a move that quickly drew criticism from House Democrats who say the president is hardly in the clear.

Some key takeaways from Mueller's findings:

NO COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA

Mueller made that clear.

Barr quotes Mueller's confidential report as saying the investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."

That finding was a win for Trump, who has turned "no collusion" into a daily refrain.

The letter is short on detail, though. And Barr says he will have to consult with Mueller and other Justice Department officials before he can release more of Mueller's confidential report or any other information he gathered during the investigation.

Barr's letter didn't say what Mueller learned that fell short of a crime about a broad range of Trump associates who had Russia-related contacts. It also didn't answer why several of those people lied to federal investigators or Congress during the Russia probe since there wasn't any direct coordination going on.

NO SMOKING GUN ON OBSTRUCTION. BUT NO EXONERATION, EITHER

Mueller punted on whether Trump obstructed justice, deciding not to make a judgment "one way or the other."

"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," Mueller wrote in his report.

Instead, the special counsel laid out the evidence on both sides of the question.

According to Barr, Mueller left unresolved what he viewed as the "'difficult issues' of law and fact concerning whether the President's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction."

BARR MADE THE CALL ON PROSECUTING OBSTRUCTION

Absent a recommendation from Mueller, Barr said he stepped in.

Barr, who was appointed by Trump, says he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided there wasn't sufficient evidence to establish that the president obstructed justice.

That conclusion was based on Mueller's investigation, Barr said. It was not a reflection of the Justice Department's view that a sitting president can't be indicted.

Barr said he determined that none of Trump's actions amounted to obstruction and that there was not sufficient evidence to show he acted with a "corrupt intent."

He also noted there wasn't an underlying crime involving Trump.

THE BAR FOR COLLUSION PROSECUTION WAS HIGH

The letter sheds some light on how Mueller approached the collusion question.

In assessing whether Americans committed crimes related to Russia's election interference, Mueller was looking for a specific agreement "tacit or express" between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Barr said investigators didn't find that. But his letter does contain a nod to some of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, noting that Mueller uncovered "multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."

Grand jury witnesses have shown that Mueller scrutinized a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower involving a Russian lawyer. The president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., took the meeting even though it was described as a Russian government effort to help his father. Trump Jr. expected the meeting to produce derogatory information on Hillary Clinton.

Court papers also show that Mueller uncovered that a Maltese professor told a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser that the Russians had dirt on Clinton in the form of emails— a message passed along weeks before it became public that Democratic groups had been hacked. Trump was also trying to cut a business deal in Russia during the campaign, an effort that included his personal lawyer discussing the proposal with a Kremlin official.

But according to Mueller, the Americans involved didn't violate the law.

IS TRUMP OUT OF THE WOODS?

No.

Trump also plays a central role in a separate case in New York, where prosecutors have implicated him in a crime. They say Trump directed his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to arrange illegal hush-money payments as a way to quash potential sex scandals during the campaign. New York prosecutors also are looking into Trump's inaugural fund.

Congressional investigations also are swirling around the president. Democrats have launched a sweeping probe of Trump that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season.

And they're now demanding that Barr turn over Mueller's confidential report and the underlying evidence he gathered so they can draw their own conclusions.

They're also calling for Barr to testify on Capitol Hill.

As we know more is yet to come - exciting isn't it!