Posted on 05/17/2019 8:55:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., went further than Attorney General William Barr to answer the question of when special counsel Robert Mueller knew there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In an interview that aired Friday on Fox News, Barr said he "couldn't say."
Appearing after Barr, Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was not so hesitant.
"Bob Mueller knew the day that he walked in the door there was no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians," Nunes said, referring to the findings of the FBI's counterintelligence that began in the summer of 2016. Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election in May 2017, eight days after President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey.
Although Mueller completed his investigation in March, Nunes said the House Intelligence Committee, which conducted its own Russian interference investigation when he was chairman, determined there was no collusion by early 2018.
"I'm able to answer that because we looked at all the work. We looked at all the intelligence. We've known for — our report came out a year ago. There's zero evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians — period," Nunes said.
[Related: Trump: 'Investigate the Investigators!' ]
Despite Nunes' decisiveness, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee argued the investigation was wrapped up prematurely. Since taking back control of the House, they have restarted the Trump-Russia investigation.
Fox News anchor Sandra Smith repeatedly challenged Nunes on that point, noting that Barr has not publicly said when the collusion question was solved by Mueller.
"That's my point. I just wanted to make sure that I answered it for the American people and that's why the attorney general is doing a good job here is he's not jumping to any conclusions," Nunes said.
The Justice Department released Mueller's 448-page report with redactions last month, which noted the term "collusion" has no legal application. Instead, Mueller's team focused on analyzing the prospect of criminal conspiracy.
Mueller concluded that Russia used cyberattacks and social media disinformation campaigns to interfere in 2016, but he did not establish any criminal conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. Republicans have long alleged that the launching of the investigation into Trump in 2016 was influenced by politics and that the investigation itself was rife with misconduct.
Yep.
SSSShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The last two years were nothing but a giant perjury trap. And the crimes exposed all happened under Obama, but for Cohen trying to sell any supposed “Influence” he had with Trump.
Mueller is scum and has been scum for decades.
Of course he is. Wiessman was briefed by Bruce Ohr as early as August/September 2016 that the dossier was political information, unverified, and that Steele was suspect.
Ohr said that Wiessman was one of the people at that briefing.
So he knew.
Does anyone think he didn’t join the Mueller team and tell Mueller right off the bat about that early meeting?
Not a chance.
Mueller was part of the “insurance policy” that we know now was insurance fraud.
And he milked it for 2 years worth of employment and expenses.
There is a statute of limitations clock to run out. Just a guess.
And I believe Ohr was under oath when he divulged that.
I don’t know the strict definition of Obstruction of Justice, but ...
If a special prosecutor knows that the President is innocent, and yet spends 2 years trying to hamstring and railroad the President’s administration, that seems like an Injustice. President Trump was lawfully and properly elected and justice demands that his administration proceed unobstructed for 4 years. Mueller definitely and willfully made that difficult. I’d call it Obstruction of Justice by Mueller.
And anti-lynching legislation to get passed.
Wait! What!?
It wasn’t about race!?
No deep stater traitor wants to do the Spandau ballet on the Capitol mall.
Bad for their image.
Mueller is part of the cabal.................
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No doubt.
His job was to cover up the myriad crimes of the Kenyanesian Usurper.
Of course.
Everyone did.
Nunes was one of the only Republicans fighting this, while the rest were talking about Mueller being an honorable man.
How do you prove a negative?
Logically, it is not possible, unless compared to a positive. But pragmatically, no evidence of criminal activity may be taken to be that no criminal activity took place. Therefore, no prosecution.
He also knew (obviously) that it was THEY (the Democrats!) who had colluded with the Russians, be it via the Ukraine, or elsewhere.
See my FR Profile page for a lot of powerful info that I’ve collected. Much of this info is not being stressed at all, even by conservative talk radio and TV hosts.
Giuliani has been trying very hard to get the Fox News hosts to wake up and listen (Hannity, Laura Ingrham, Shannon Bream...). Yet they practically ignore what he’s telling them.
Limbaugh, from what I recall, hasn’t even brought up the growing body of evidence showing that it was the DEMOCRATS who had colluded with Russia. Instead, he seems to be stuck on trying to defend the lying, traitorous Dems’ phony allegations that Trump colluded with Russia.
Here is a direct link to my FR page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/
yep, that will be his legacy.
Good. Can we have the House of Representatives back now?
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