Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Traitor boy, go back and read what he wrote or have someone read it to you, then look at your lunatic answer.

mjmoore17 Loc: Philadelphia, PA area

It is about trump, once he is gone, the situation will be resolved. So you are half right.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Traitor boy, in case you haven't noticed, no one cares about your Trump Derangement Syndrome. You are just another hater.

mjmoore17 Loc: Philadelphia, PA area

I know but you always respond and you will never know how much that means to me.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Nor do I care traitor boy.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

And you continue to lie. This is getting to be a habit with you. You never answer any questions, just tell the rest of us we are deflecting. Have you nothing else to add, no original thoughts? You just told me about Trump's malfeasance. OK prove it. What has he done that is malfeasance. The fact you do not like him, actually hate him, doesn't mean he is doing anything wrong. You Liberals tell us constantly that there was no evidence against Hillary (although James Comey laid out the evidence pretty well and even put a nice pink bow on it). Show us the evidence that Trump is committing malfeasance in office, show the evidence he is a traitor, corrupt, a criminal.

Take the focus off Trump? Right now there IS no focus on Trump, traitor boy. Wake up. The focus now is all on you Liberals to prove through, I think I heard 86 upcoming investigations against Trump by the House. Hell, I doubt that will be enough to prove anything bad about Trump. What it will prove though, to your voting base and the rest of the world, is that you Lefties are nothing but poor sports who continue to be losers. That much is already evident. I do hope you and yours keep up with your asinine bullshit because with every word, every investigation, every sentence uttered by AOC the two Muslim anti Americans, you lose another vote which will go to either Trump or a middle ground candidate.

traitor boy all I can say is keep up the good work. Saul Alinsky would be proud of you as a useful idiot.

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

A great point. When you think about it the only person from the Left who claims to give a shit about the border children is traitor boy. If there is really a problem then Congress could step up and fix it, at least do something. But they don't. Honestly why should they, from either side. Why should they do anything about immigration reform or infrastructure. Presently they are doing nothing from either side and it is President Trump who is getting the undeserved blame because he is the one who is trying to get something accomplished.

The Republicans sit on their hands while the Democrats actively and loudly refuse to do anything at all so long as Trump is POTUS. The Left has walked out of Congress en masse, done a sit in and basically act like two year old kids.

There are times when I wonder why Trump would even want to run for another term. Who needs this shit? But I hope he does. Hopefully, We the People, will be able to vote out the Nadlers, the Mitch McConnels, the Adam Schiff and whoever else stands in the way of progress for America. Did I mention Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee, Mitt Romney?

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I will never forget election night. I was in Colorado at my brother's house watching the election results. We both had tears in our eyes at Trump's win because the fix had been in for Hillary all along. She had been promised the White House. There was no way she was going to lose to Donald Trump. We stayed up long enough to see that Hillary shit all over her supporters when she made corrupt John Podesta face them. Hell, she was probably too drunk to even stand by that time. I remember their little tearful snowflake faces whining and crying, wondering how could this have ever happened to their Queen. And America has been prosperous ever since. Thank you God.

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

traitor boy I want you to do something you have probably never done before in your life. THINK about this before answering or you will really look like the fool you really are. The situation was not resolved BEFORE Trump took office. What in hell makes you think it will be resolved when Trump is no longer in office? This situation as you call it was not Trump's doing. It was already there.

OK Bucko, traitor boy, your turn. All eyes are on Y-O-U.

Dennis

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Well stated Dennis. Dems will prove to the voters that they will stop at nothing in their quest for greed and power. The average Americans are sick of this crap. They plainly understand that Trump did not collude and he did not obstruct. Democrats are not your average American.

mjmoore17 Loc: Philadelphia, PA area

Keep up your delusions. This was discussed In Detail once already.

Here are a few with sources from the report included. You can thank me for educating you.

1. Trump did try to sabotage the investigation. His staff defied him.
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Mr. Trump that a special counsel had been appointed in May 2017, Mr. Trump grew angry: “I’m f$cked,” he said, believing his presidency was ruined. He told Mr. Sessions, “This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

Mr. Trump began trying to get rid of Mr. Mueller, only to be thwarted by his staff. In instance after instance, his staff acted as a bulwark against Mr. Trump’s most destructive impulses. In June 2017, the president instructed Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, to remove Mr. Mueller, but Mr. McGahn resisted. Rather than carry out the president’s order, he decided he would rather resign.

Two days later, Mr. Trump asked another trusted adviser, Corey Lewandowski, to tell Mr. Sessions to end the investigation. Mr. Lewandowski did not want to, so he punted to a colleague, Rick Dearborn. He, too, “was uncomfortable with the task and did not follow through.”

Mr. Trump was angry that Mr. Sessions recused himself from the investigation. (Vol. II, Page 78)

2. So many lies. So many changed stories.
One of the unanswered questions of the past two years — which helped fuel the F.B.I. investigation, congressional inquiries and journalistic scrutiny — is why so many people lied, changed their stories and issued misleading statements to both the public and federal authorities.

The report recaps one false statement after another. Just a few examples:

Mr. Trump was livid when journalists revealed that he had unsuccessfully ordered Mr. Mueller’s firing. The president tried to get Mr. McGahn to say publicly that was false, but Mr. McGahn refused, saying that the news reports were accurate. Mr. Mueller’s report notably declared that Mr. McGahn was “credible.”

Mr. Trump also pressed the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, to give a news conference about the firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. The White House press office wanted Mr. Rosenstein to say it was his idea. Mr. Rosenstein told the president that a news conference was a bad idea “because if the press asked him, he would tell the truth.”
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, admitted issuing a statement to the news media “in the heat of the moment that was not founded on anything.”

No, F.B.I. agents didn’t actually call the White House offering support for Mr. Comey’s firing. (Vol. II, Page 72)

Mr. Mueller can’t explain why the stories about Mr. Comey’s firing keep changing. (Vol. II, Page 77)

3. Fake news? Not so much.
The president has spent the past two years denouncing the news media. He has repeatedly accused reporters of making up sources to destroy his presidency. The report, though, shows not only that some of the most unflattering stories about Mr. Trump were accurate, but also that White House officials knew that was the case even as they heaped criticism on journalists.
That tweet coincided with outreach to Mr. Cohen by Mr. Trump’s associates, and Mr. Cohen understood that this was all part of an effort to get him to “stay on message and be part of the team.”
In May 2017, for instance, The New York Times disclosed that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey to end the F.B.I.’s investigation into the president’s national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. Mr. Trump tweeted, “I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn. Just more Fake News covering another Comey lie!”

“Despite those denials,” Mr. Mueller wrote, “substantial evidence corroborates Comey’s account.”

In another instance, Mr. Trump appeared to use criticism of the news media as a legal strategy. He attacked a Times article suggesting that his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, might cooperate with the Justice Department and provide information about Mr. Trump.
That tweet coincided with outreach to Mr. Cohen by Mr. Trump’s associates, and Mr. Cohen understood that this was all part of an effort to get him to “stay on message and be part of the team.”

The president accused the “dishonest media” of making up stories that turned out to be true. (Vol. II, Page 147)

No obstruction? Not so fast.
Mr. Trump was quick to declare the report a total vindication.
But federal authorities went out of their way not to exonerate Mr. Trump. They wrote that his conduct in office “presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.”

If the evidence cleared the president, Mr. Mueller would have said so. It didn’t. (Vol. II, Page 8)

5. Evading an F.B.I. interview proved a successful strategy.
Mr. Trump repeatedly said he was eager to sit for an interview with Mr. Mueller’s team, despite his lawyers’ insistence that doing so would be a terrible idea.

The report makes clear why his lawyers were so worried about it. Mr. Mueller had a huge cache of unanswered questions, misleading and conflicting statements, and unexplained actions with which to confront the president. Sitting for an interview, the report makes clear, would have exposed Mr. Trump to far more problems.

Mr. Mueller said he chose not to subpoena the president because a court fight would delay the investigation. But that decision meant that the authorities were never able to ask the central question in the obstruction case: What was Mr. Trump thinking when he tried repeatedly to undermine the federal investigation?

Mr. Mueller believed he had the authority to subpoena the president. (Vol. II, Page 13)

6. No conclusive evidence of conspiracy, but lots of reason to investigate.
Mr. Mueller makes explicit what Mr. Trump has repeatedly cast doubt on: Russia secretly manipulated the 2016 presidential election.

The investigation ultimately found no evidence that anyone from Mr. Trump’s campaign participated in that effort, but the report reveals in stark detail the many suspicious interactions that had the F.B.I. so worried. Many of those have been reported, but the report amounts to a compendium that helps explain the origins of the F.B.I. investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane.”

For instance, it has long been known that George Papadopoulos, a young campaign aide, was told that the Russian government had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. But the report goes much further, revealing that Mr. Papadopoulos suggested an explicit offer by the Russian government to work with the Trump campaign to sabotage Mrs. Clinton.

Mr. Papadopoulos indicated that Russia wanted to coordinate with the Trump campaign. (Vol. I, Page 89)


7. Imagine reading this report cold.
Prosecutors describe a president who was preoccupied with ending a federal investigation, a White House that repeatedly told misleading and changing stories, and a presidential campaign that was in repeated contact with Russian officials for reasons that are not always clear.

Even though prosecutors concluded that didn’t amount to provably criminal conduct, the report is astounding in its sweep. Yet it is also a reminder of how much the public has learned over the past two years about Mr. Trump’s conduct.

If the American public or members of Congress were learning these things for the first time, the political fallout would normally be devastating. The consequences of the report remain to be seen, but if people are not surprised or shocked by the revelations, then Mr. Trump may have benefited by the steady drip of news stories he has so loudly criticized.

The special counsel suggests a pattern of behavior by Mr. Trump to harm the investigation. (Vol. II, Page The157)

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

That's all you got? Good Luck, you and yours are going to need it. BTW when cutting and pasting it is generally considered proper to site the source.

skylane5sp Loc: Puyallup, WA

Oh, really. How about before President Trump? The 'situation' wasn't resolved then. Like I said, lefty 'leadership' doesn't give a crap about the children or anything about the actual business of the American people. It's all TDS.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I'm interested in the citizenship question on the census, that comes before the Supreme Court today.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

So Traitor Boy Troll, you took some libtard editorial opinion and posted it, forgetting it is full of the libtard authors opinions. The problem is conservatives have a brain and use it, you buffoons believe what you are spoon fed by the libs. You posted crap.