by Sandy » Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:08 am
The Mueller Report has not been released. What we have is a four page "summary" of the reports contents by the attorney general who has a very well stated position and record of bias when it comes to issues related to the presidency and is completely on the record regarding his very strong personal and professional bias when it comes to this particular investigation and its potential outcome. This same attorney general, along with most of his Republican colleagues, did not come anywhere close to holding this same view of the lack of legal authority to hold the president accountable, including who could indict him, when Bill Clinton was in the White House. So on top of everything else, including his willingness to accept a position of power at the invitation of the most corrupt president in history, Attorney General Barr's words are propaganda, not fact. The way they've handled this, unconstitutionally I might add, is just a way to get out ahead of the findings of the investigation.
If you actually read Barr's four page missive, it does not in any way state unequivocally that there was "no collusion," and it does not exonerate the President on any possible charge. It states that the report found that the special counsel did not have enough evidence to meet the higher standards for indictment required of a special counsel investigation . It does not state that there was "no collusion," nor does it state that there was no obstruction of justice. We already knew well in advance that the attorney general, who was put in place deliberately because of his long held views on the ability of the courts to indict a sitting president, This was the moment for which Jeff Sessions was thrown under the bus and for which Barr was hired. Trump, as usual, ignored the facts and headed out to rally the base.
Constitutionally, Congress will have to see the full, unredacted report. They will have to decide if the evidence which does exist for both collusion and obstruction of justice meets their standard for "high crimes and misdemeanors." They will have to have the courage to counter the propaganda being put out by Trump and state that he is lying about it. They already have more that is publicly known than the GOP had when they went after Clinton. So when that is all made public, yes, we will see. Until then, he is still incompetent, inept and unfit for office, a pathological liar and a sexual abuser of women.