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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."
it's more like there's a couple hundred different posts. There's emoluments. There's campaign finance. There's tax evasion (lots and lots of that).
The reason nobody ever thought Trump would run for real is that he's been breaking the law his entire life and getting away with it because we don't punish the very wealthy. As it stands we're not going to punish Trump unless the American people at large change their minds. Right now he could shoot a man dead in Time Square and get away with it. Hell, some of his supporters want him to take over and become a dictator.
Will that change? Who knows. I know either way the rule of law has been significantly eroded by his presidency. Do his supporters love him enough to overlook that? Probably.
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After two and a half years of liberal russophobia and accusations of treason, we arrived to this? Did anyone actually with at least half a brain believe this was going to end somewhat different? Anyways, it's hard to believe that Congress and the corporate news media will leave the President alone after this. So watch the news echo chamber closely over the next few days as Russia investigation now morphs into "obstruction of justice" and "campaign finance" investigation.
Left-wing conspiracy kooks on suicide watch!
No, no, no. The report written by Republican Mueller is merely further evidence of a conspiracy to protect Trump. Given the fact that Trump is guilty of everything, anything contradicting this fact is obviously disinformation and coverup by Mueller and other friends of Trump spread throughout the FBI and the DOJ, aka Trumplandia.
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Can you not read? There is evidence, but someone decided it wasn't enough to convict the president. That's an opinion. Or it might be enough. That's another opinion. But the evidence is there and some of us noticed the president do and say things publicly that scream conflict of interest.
Wow, you're a FUCKING MORON!
Guess what? Zero evidence is also not enough to convict the president.
You kinda gave away what your real goal is, evidence be damned: convict the President.
Why?
Because he's not Hillary.
Wow. It's kinda obvious when "progressives" try to preemptively accuse Trump of trying to overturn the results of the upcoming 2020 election, you "progressives" are projecting.
BECAUSE YOU "PROGRESSIVE" LITTLE SHITS ARE ARE ****STILL**** TRYING TO OVERTURN THE 2016 ELECTION \
Get this: Hillary LOST.
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There is evidence, but someone decided it wasn't enough to convict the president.
You keep consoling yourself with that delusion sweetheart.
Nothing, but people have heard it so many times in the right wing echo chamber that it is taken as a given.
Actually, Manafort and Cohen both been convicted of cheating on their taxes in cases unconnected to Trump and his campaign.
Cohen was also convicted of violating campaign finance laws. (Hush payments to Stormy Daniels.) Cohen says he did this "for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in coordination with Individual Number 1. And for the record, Individual Number 1 is President Donald J. Trump."
The Mueller report is just the end of the beginning. Grab your popcorn, folks.
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I don't think you read it in context. That quote is specific to the charge of obstruction of justice, and the report says that Mueller gathered up the facts and declined to evaluate whether the activity constituted a crime
You didn't read it correctly. What Mueller said was that without collusion there cannot be obstruction of collusion. Case closed.
It's like those people who say Hillary committed a crime (email server) yet all those lawyers and agents at the FBI said otherwise.
Why that is a lie... James Comey explicitly stated that:
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case
It's actually a prosecutor's role to make that choice, not the FBI. The FBI found evidence of violations - but tried to (and appeared to, successfully) - protect an Administration confidant. There actually was evidence of a crime committed - but it was willfully ignored by the FBI and the Obama DOJ.
Why do you want a partisan DOJ to ignore crimes by their "friends"?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
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Oh, another Trumpkin who thinks Trump is a Jesus like beacon of morality and honesty in a dark swamp of corruption.
Just to clarify... is he going to prison before or after Jesus comes back? I keep hearing both of these things are just around the corner (and they may be) but somehow they both keep not happening.
... because she won the popular vote and Trump is a looser.
Except she didn't. Once the illegal votes where removed from the record, it is clear that Trump won the popular vote too. Notice how nether of the parties are harping on that any more?
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
No, read what Comey said. He said there was plenty of illegal happenings, including handling of classified and top secret information. But he unilaterally decided that a prosecutor wouldn't charge, so he would not recommend anything.
There was no saying "we're not sure what there was, since that wasn't our purview" like with Mueller; this was "there was lots of illegal activity, but we don't think it was on purpose and prosecutors probably won't charge so we'll ignore the crime".
Plenty of evidence of a crime, just an unwillingness to prosecute it. I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Communist - willfully ignoring to charge actual crimes should be abhorrent to all but the most strident political hacks.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
It's not a summary, it's the whole report. The report tells literally nothing we didn't already know and doesn't indict anyone that wasn't already indicted. The FBI prosecuted these Russian operators already to the extent possible.
This is a $30-40M waste of taxpayer dollars.
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If those payoffs are not a crime them how come Cohen was convicted and went to jail for them?
He didn't. He went to jail for process crimes, then lying over said process crimes. It isn't your fault you don't understand this, US law especially campaign laws are a giant clusterfuck. To put it simply, Obama did the exact same thing as Trump - and used a lawyer to do the exact same thing. He got off with paying a fine for pulling a mea culpa.
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