Posted on 04/18/2019 11:21:33 AM PDT by pfflier
Well the media is in a frenzy now, particularly CNN and the Washington Post, that the Mueller report doesn't exonerate or accuse President Trump of obstruction of justice. Isn't that exactly what AG Barr said in his summary?
OK now to the point: It is obvious that the report has completely debunked the Russian collusion charges.
Where is the retraction from the accusers and the media? Where is the statement from all those rampaging through the news and opinion programs for the past months, that the President is a Russian puppet?
Why aren't we and congress holding them accountable for this travesty?
The what now?
The media still has not accepted the fact they lost.
They are still in denial. They are still spouting nonsense that there was collusion.
I mean obstruction.
Yeah. That’s the ticket.
FWIW, This is wikipedia on obstruction:
Generally, obstruction charges are laid when it is discovered that a person questioned in an investigation, other than a suspect, has lied to the investigating officers. However, in most common law jurisdictions, the right to remain silent can be used to allow any person questioned by police merely to deny answering questions posed by an investigator without giving any reason for doing so. (In such a case, the investigators may subpoena the witness to give testimony under oath in court, though the witness may then exercise their rights, for example in the Fifth Amendment, if they believe their answer may serve to incriminate themselves.) If the person willfully and knowingly tried to protect a suspect (such as by providing a false alibi) or to hide from investigation of their own activities (such as to hide their involvement in another crime), this may leave them liable to prosecution. Obstruction charges can also be laid if a person alters, destroys, or conceals physical evidence.[1] Obstruction charges may also be laid in unique situations such as refusal to aid a police officer, escape through voluntary action of an officer and refusing to assist prison officers in arresting escaped convicts.
And from the Mueller report:
In the report, special counsel Robert Mueller outlined why obstruction by President Trump failed. It failed because others refused to “carry out orders.”
“The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests,” the report said.
“(James) Comey did not end the investigation of (Michael) Flynn, which ultimately resulted in Flynn’s prosecution and conviction for lying to the FBI. (Don) McGahn did not tell the Acting Attorney General that the special counsel must be removed, but was instead prepared to resign over the President’s order. (Corey) Lewandowski and Dearborn did not deliver the President ‘s message to (Jeff) Sessions that he should confine the Russia investigation to future election meddling only. And McGahn refused to recede from his recollections about events surrounding the President’s direction to have the special counsel removed, despite the President’s multiple demands that he do so. Consistent with that pattern, the evidence we obtained would not support potential obstruction charges against the President’s aides and associates beyond those already filed,” the report said.
You won't get one. Like Goebbels, they're in it to the very end. Unlike Goebbels, they won't do the honorable thing as the good guys close in on their bunker.
You’ll get one out of the media right after you get one out of the Pope.
There is a big difference between a “mea culpa” and a “nostra culpa” It takes a bigger man to authentically say the former.
These people may be wrong (constantly) but they’re actually not dumb.
They knew two years ago that it was a possibility that Trump didn’t collude, and they didn’t care.
Why don’t people understand this? THE MEDIA DOESN’T CARE if what they are reporting is wrong.
Now, they wont give up on obstruction. Even though the report indicates that there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute, that is not the media standard.
The media standard is to be wrong when it suits them, as long as they are not wrong on a legally liable level. Because of the first amendment, the standard is just too high, and they know it. They even tease legal levels of falsehood.
The war is just too important to them not to.
They don’t care what you want. They don’t care what you think. They only care what they want you to think.
My only complaint is Rush, et al, are not calling out the real reason they want PDJT gone...it is not that they despise him, but rather their kingdoms, fiefdoms, slavery rings, sex slavery rings (Clinton foundation), muzlim terrorist funding rings, drug supplier rings (hello Bushies and Afghanistan connections), in general selling out the US at our expense rings, etc. are in jeopardy...they are fighting tooth and nail to keep their $$$ flowing and to stay out of jail.
THAT IS WHY they want PDJT gone.
“OK now to the point: It is obvious that the report has completely debunked the Russian collusion charges.”
Really it didn’t do that. It “confirmed” almost everything Hillary, Fusion GPS, and the treasonous intel community claimed. “Russia stole Hillary’s emails”. “Russia gave the emails to wikileaks”, “Russia was trying to campaign for Trump on Facebook”.
Then the sparrow farted and said Trump wasn’t involved. But other than that the whole story is supposed to be true.
As for obstruction (which is impossible since he is the chief law enforcement officer in America) they said they couldn’t prove anything, but they cannot clear him.
It’s the best we will get, but it did not explain that the entire Russia story was fake. That Guccifer had nothing to do with it. That Seth Rich did it to get even for Hitlery snaking Bernie and they murdered him for it.
I’m sure the Republicans are preparing their apology right now.
There are only about 5 active threads where this question would fit.
But no...
Adam Schitt. He’ll find it as he scours the sewers.
A mea culpa from any progressive (leftist, socialist, Democrat, whatever)?
Impossible. Cannot happen. They can NEVER be wrong, about anything. That is a hallmark of theirs (and their Achilles heel).
It is a question worth pondering on its own. And if that isn’t enough of an explanation, you could read your own tagline to round things out.
Forget the "mea culpa"...it'll never come.
What I'd like to know is where the hell is the GOP?!?!
Aside from Rudy, they seem to have evaporated!
That process will completely eclipse the whole reason the independent investigation was created.
It is a classic diversion maneuver, to manufacture a crime where none existed. It is also pure banana republic politics designed to inflame and distract the ignorant.
The media loves this. It sells commercials, facts be damned.
That would require self awareness.
I have to chuckle at the vision of all the bushy-headed legal interns poring over this report.
Guzzling Red Bulls, typing furiously on their laptops.......
Gonna be the next Woodwards & Bernstein.......
Soros and Don Lemon have got to be hittin’ the Rolaids and wiping up their drool.
The idea is that if your opponent isn't guilty of something they are guilty of something else. If you're not right in one way, you are right in another. If you're wrong on the details, you're right about the big picture.
Nobody wants to give aid and comfort to their opponents nowadays.
And that is exactly why the GOP has gone "radio silent."
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