I just finished the Mueller Report. Here are some of the most shocking and important revelations. Long and short: Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
Immediately.
I don't say this lightly. It makes me unbelievably sad and depressed that this has happened. But we have a criminal president and he must be removed. It has to happen.
We are in a crisis. We have to recognize that. Right now, we have a criminally compromised president.
The biggest takeaways:
- Mueller wrote this report in such a way as to send a message that the investigation was the be all and end all of this matter.
- Regarding collusion, Mueller repeatedly mentions that he was hindered by the Trump administration either lying or else not providing information. Mueller said that they destroyed evidence and stone walled him. That's why he couldn't establish the collusion charge in totality.
- Regarding obstruction, Mueller was clearly putting the matter in the hands of Congress. The report is a full and explicit layout of impeachable, high crimes.
- When Bill Barr put forth his summary last month, he not only lied; it appears that he actively obstructed justice by misrepresenting the report. This was his attempt to try and save Donald Trump and the administration.
Also significant:
- The Trump Campaign was sometimes receptive when approached by Russia. Other times they just proceeded with the knowledge that Russia was interfering on their behalf. They were not ignorant of the fact that Russia was interfering, not at all.
- The Trump Campaign knew that the Democratic National Committee emails were going to be released before they were. Mueller found that Trump himself was in contact with campaign members and people outside of the campaign in the effort to plan how to capitalize on their release.
- Trump repeatedly told his subordinates to obstruct justice. He had them contact the principals, including Comey and Flynn, in order to take their temperature and to communicate what Trump thought.
- Trump wanted to obstruct even more than he did. The only thing that kept him from doing so was that multiple people declined to perform actions that would make them accessories to a crime.
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