From a White House statement — via the impeccably honest Sarah Sanders — on Bob Mueller's post-report appearance yesterday: "The report was clear — there was no collusion, no conspiracy — and the Department of Justice confirmed there was no obstruction."
Notice that when she came to the question of obstruction, Sanders switched from the "clear report" to what Attorney General Barr had to say, misleadingly, about the report. Thus even the White House now implicitly acknowledges that Mueller nailed Trump on obstruction — 11 times.
Meanwhile, Individual 1 admitted in a tweet this morning that "Russia help[ed] me to get elected," while also contradicting what his press spokeswoman slyly conceded yesterday about obstruction.
....say he fought back against this phony crime that didn’t exist, this horrendous false accusation, and he shouldn’t fight back, he should just sit back and take it. Could this be Obstruction? No, Mueller didn’t find Obstruction either. Presidential Harassment!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2019
This motley gang of swindlers and liars can't even coordinate a fresh batch of relatively simple fiction without crashing into each other — much like, when one adds Rudy Giuliani, a Three Stooges routine.
A declination by any other name is a declination. Mueller’s statement just repeated his report there is no case, collusion or obstruction. Despite DOJ policy on charging, he used over 430 pages and a brief press statement to reach that result. No case!!!
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) May 29, 2019
Here, Giuliani hopelessly muddles the connection between "DOJ policy" and Mueller's "result," which was anything but "No case!!!" DOJ policy precludes bringing a case against a sitting president. But the way in which Giuliani wrote his tweet suggests that Mueller effectively did just that, which profoundly conflicts with Giuliani's conclusion of no case.
To paraphrase Animal House's Dean Wormer: Fake, mendacious and stupid is no way to go through life, people.
I disagree. They all seem to be getting by just fine by being fake, mendacious and stupid.
Posted by: AnneJ | May 30, 2019 at 09:59 AM
And yet all of them, and even their ultimate master Sith Tsar Vladimir Putin, clever and ruthless as he is, would be helpless if not for the USA's continuing greatest weakness: its miserably overabundant population of mean and stupid white men.
I am as white and male as they are, but any love or loyalty I ever felt toward them has vanished. I feel like a white male Marvel Comics mutant who has decided that Magneto is right about the normals.
Also, if and when we ever get power back, it's past high time to censor and stifle the hate media. Jefferson never heard of Goebbels, or Faux News, or Facebook. "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
Posted by: Ivory Bill Woodpecker | May 30, 2019 at 10:18 AM
Mueller was clear that the justice system had no role to play when the president is a criminal. It is unconstitutional to either judge him guilty or innocent, although the absence of criminal activity could be stated as an observation. The decision to prosecute belongs only to Congress.
Posted by: Joseph Ernst | May 30, 2019 at 10:33 AM
Am I a bad person to hope Giuliani is being investigated by SDNY?
Posted by: Max | May 30, 2019 at 11:38 AM