Robert Mueller indicts 13 Russians for election meddling

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CNN today has been airing Schiff's speech in its entirety. He detailed all the many interactions between the Trump campaign and Russia/GRU/WikiLeaks, interactions which prove collusion, and said his colleagues "might think it's okay" but he doesn't. He called the interactions "immoral," "unethical" and "unpatriotic." While Schiff spoke, the blindly loyal Trump-worshipping Republicans showed no emotion. They don't care what a Democrat thinks. They care about only what Emperor Trump thinks.

Adam Schiff responds to Trump's calls to resign with blistering 5-minute attack on the President and Russia

https://www.businessinsider.com/adam...-russia-2019-3

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3oL_DpVIvTs

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Letter from Daniel Fink of Beverly Hills in today's Los Angeles Times:

"We need to know why so many of Trump's top associates had so many contacts with so many Russians; why they lied about this; why Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey (he said on national TV it was to end the Russia investigation); and why he hews to Russian President Vladimir Putin's party line. We can't understand the willful lack of curiosity about the answers to these important questions – not answered by Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report – by Trump's supporters."

I can answer that: Trump supporters aren't curious about Trump-Russia connections because they're blindly loyal. Trump is the false idol they worship. As to why they're blindly loyal, well, I have no idea.

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Based on William Barr's four-page summary of a report that is nearly 400 pages, Donald Trump falsely claimed complete exoneration. Mueller's report, with certain confidential information redacted, is expected to be released to the public in mid-April and we will finally learn details of Trump's attempts to thwart, or halt, the Russia investigation. He may yet be charged with obstruction of justice.

Some on Mueller's team see their findings as more damaging for Trump than Barr revealed

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/u...ings-barr.html

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Trump was not charged with obstruction of justice – but not because he didn't try to obstruct justice. CNN headline:

Mueller: Obstruction by Trump failed when staffers defied him
In the report, the special counsel outlined why obstruction failed: Others refused to "carry out orders."

https://www.cnn.com

The Mueller report says – among other things – Sarah Sanders lied about James Comey, Trump asked his aides to acquire Hillary Clinton's emails, and Trump's written responses to questions were "inadequate." The report can be read and/or downloaded at

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/04/18/pol...pdf/index.html

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From page 5 of the Mueller report: "The investigation established that the Russian government believed it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."

From page 182: "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

The Mueller report said Congress "may apply the obstruction law to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office", i.e., instructing his aides to interfere with the Mueller investigation. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin pointed out that Robert Mueller had no power or authority to enforce obstruction-of-justice laws against the President. However, Toobin added, that one sentence is "all but an explicit invitation to Congress to impeach the President." But will they?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...bin-ip-vpx.cnn

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William Barr has lost all his credibility by downplaying the findings of the Mueller investigation and continuing to praise and defend Donald Trump. Barr acts like he's Trump's personal attorney and not the Attorney General of the United States.

Barr said Mueller found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The Mueller report says investigators "uncovered evidence of numerous links." Barr said the White House was "fully cooperative" with the Mueller investigation. The Mueller report says there were more than 30 instances of Trump saying he couldn't "recall" key events. Yeah, thank you for your "full cooperation," Donald.

And Trump said today, "This hoax should never happen to another President again." "Hoax"? Is he unaware of all the indictments, criminal charges, guilty pleas, plea bargains and prison sentences? Or did that news never reach Trumpworld?

CNN just played the January 2018 video of Trump denying a New York Times report that he asked Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller: "Fake news. Typical New York Times. Fake stories." As Anderson Cooper noted, many of the news stories Trump called "fake" turned out to be true. The Mueller report details the Trump administration's many lies, coverups and instructions to others to commit crimes. Sound familiar? Watergate?

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The Washington Post political writer Dan Balz points out that even though the Mueller investigation could not conclusively prove Trump conspired with Russia, it reveals many actions that are "not acceptable or normal or advisable in a democracy."

Mueller's report paints a damning portrait of Trump's Presidency

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ncy/ar-BBW4UES

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Kellyanne Conway managed Trump's Presidential campaign and now serves as his White House counselor. She is a fawning, blindly loyal toady who refuses to acknowledge even the slightest fault in Donald Trump. Her husband, however, is a harsh critic of Trump. Last month, Trump called him a "total loser" and a "husband from hell." Emperor Trump hates it when his subjects refuse to worship him. The narcissistic, egotistical, petulant, thin-skinned Emperor will undoubtedly respond to this opinion piece with another round of nasty insults:

George Conway in op-ed: Trump is a cancer on the Presidency and Congress should excise it 'without delay'

https://www.mediaite.com/print/georg...without-delay/

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Robert Mueller, believing Donald Trump would be incapable of defending himself, did not indict Trump for obstruction of justice. He is leaving that up to Congress. "The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intents presented difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred," Mueller wrote, adding that Trump is not charged with committing criminal acts – but neither is he exonerated. Time magazine analyzes some of the evidence:

Here are all the ways Trump may have obstructed justice

http://time.com/5573521/donald-trump...ction-justice/

The Mueller report shows why the Trump campaign was such an easy target for Russia

http://time.com/5573768/mueller-repo...sian-contacts/

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Americans need to be asking why Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win the election – and why Trump is refusing to tell us what he and Putin discussed in their five meetings. Is kompromat involved? What does Putin know about Trump that Americans do not know? Is Putin blackmailing Trump? Is that why Trump and Putin are BFFs? Is that why Trump declared, against all evidence to the contrary, "Putin says Russia didn't meddle in our election and I believe him"?

'Putin has won': Mueller report details how Russia interfered in 2016 election

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ion/ar-BBW6a1L