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Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com)
America's recently-appointed Attorney General William Barr has submitted to Congress his summary of the main conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, CNN reports.
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," special counsel Robert Mueller says, as quoted in Barr's summary.
It does, however, reiterate that there was clear Russian interference in America's 2016 election: The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.... The second element involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election. The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.
Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election.
Barr also writes that the report leaves it to him to determine whether president Trump is guilty of obstructing justice, then adds "I have concluded that the evidence...is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
CNN has the complete text of the four-page summary. Barr's letter concludes by saying he's still "determining what can be released."
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," special counsel Robert Mueller says, as quoted in Barr's summary.
It does, however, reiterate that there was clear Russian interference in America's 2016 election: The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.... The second element involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election. The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.
Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election.
Barr also writes that the report leaves it to him to determine whether president Trump is guilty of obstructing justice, then adds "I have concluded that the evidence...is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
CNN has the complete text of the four-page summary. Barr's letter concludes by saying he's still "determining what can be released."
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him
"While the ball did not go through the goal posts, it clearly would have if the goal posts had been somewhere else instead."
So basically the president did things that were deeply disturbing but technically legal So both sides can claim victory. When the dust settles the Americans will be divided into three parts, his base that would support him even if he shot a random Muslim shackled to a post on the White House lawn on live TV, the third that will always believe that Donald Trump’s name should be mentioned in the same breath as that of Benedict Arnold and the final third that’s sitting there watching it all and wondering how this could happen to their country.
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him
"While the ball did not go through the goal posts, it clearly would have if the goal posts had been somewhere else instead."
So basically the president did things that were deeply disturbing but technically legal
What deeply disturbing things? To be an anti-establishment candidate like Obama before him? Trump is not the first anti-establishment, outsider president: Obama is. That's a well established trend now, and Russians have little to do with it. Look at all those Democratic presidential candidates (O'Rourke, Warren, Yang, Sanders, Harris, Gabbard...): they are all somewhat anti-establishment or posing as anti-establishment and/or pushing their outsider status.
Anti-establishment?? Yeah, the trust fund baby who lives in a glass tower and shit into a golden toilet is the friend of the common man ... right.
True, Trump does have a lot more to answer for than collusion.
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The Mueller report is just the end of the beginning. Grab your popcorn, folks.
Yup, the real fun begins when they out his tax returns charge him with everything from insurance fraud to tax cheating and start disassembling Trump's 'empire'.
McCain was a traitor and a knave most of his adult life. Keating Five.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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