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Democrats Will Regret Not Walking Away When They Could
Journal of American Greatness ^ | April 7, 2019 | Adam Mills

Posted on 04/09/2019 5:52:22 AM PDT by billorites

One can imagine a future in which Democrats, reflecting on our present, are shouting to their past selves, “Walk away!” As I will show below, the Democrat’s continued obsession with opening the pandora’s box of the Mueller report will only make things worse for the get-Trump crowd as the hoax chickens increasingly come home to roost.

Politico recently reported the Special Counsel’s office rapidly wound down operations after delivering the report to Attorney General Barr. It took most of a weekend for Barr to wade through the report before issuing the summary. Calls for a full, unredacted release of the report could not be immediately accommodated because virtually everything in the report remained a tangled mess of grand jury information, classified information, and innuendo that the DoJ could not ethically release in the absence of an indictment. This, in contrast to the Starr report on then-President Bill Clinton which was drafted in a form ready for public release, the Mueller report inexplicably requires additional work to get the lion share into the public domain. Why, Byron York asked, would the Mueller team not prepare the report for public release? Why force the Attorney General to spend the time to comb through the materials to redact and excerpt the materials which must not be released. Didn’t the attorney with oversight, Rod Rosenstein, publicly warn Americans that uncharged conduct could not be released into the public domain? Isn’t that exactly one of the reasons that Rosenstein supported the dismissal of James Comey? The answer portends disaster for the Trump/Russia hoax truthers.

Mueller’s team has played dirty from the start. Contrary to the public narrative that the team was “leak-proof,” the opposite is actually true. As I recently wrote, “It has been three years of innuendo and leaks, leaks, leaks, leaks, and uncountably more examples of leaks dripping poison into the poison-addicted pens of the partisan media. The Mueller team has never had to prove anything involving Trump-Russian collusion to anyone because the special counsel needs no proof to function as a potent political weapon.” To name two awful examples: the leak of the Cohen/Trump audio recording that appears to have been seized by the Feds and the leak of the written questions to the President. Add to that list a new leak reported by the New York Times, “Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.” Did you get that? Anonymous sources claiming to be familiar with other anonymous sources on the Mueller team are the source for the New York Times article. Double secret hearsay. My editor would laugh in my face if I tried to publish an article with such flimsy of sourcing. But no standard is too low in the pursuit of getting Trump.

I asked a friend of mine what she thought would be in the Mueller report. “Only one of two things: lies or nothing.” We have reason to think exactly that based upon a little-noticed release of a letter from Senator (hero) Charles Grassley to the Special Counsel in which he chastised the Special Counsel for misleading Americans in the public indictment of George Papadopolous. As noted by Fox News, the public filings of Mueller strongly implied that the Trump campaign was looking for opportunities to meet and coordinate with the Russians when the actual emails spelled out the exact opposite. “In the full context, the emails in question actually show that the Trump Campaign wanted someone ‘low level’ to decline these types of invitations,” Grassley and Graham wrote to Barr.

The Special Counsel team has fled the stage, hopefully under a cloud of embarrassment. The failure to segregate the report to make it ready for public release leaves a smokescreen to cover their exit without accountability. But when this smoke eventually clears, the Democrats will get their hands on something resembling the entire report. And then what?

Then, the Democrats will have one of two things: Lies or nothing. If the report contains uncharged smears against the President, the Democrats will be forced to use their majority in the House to impeach leading to an inevitable disastrous trial in the Senate. A band of bloggers, writers, and select members of Congress have for two years waged a successful counter-resistance against the hoax and we’re ready for the last battle. If the final report contains nothing, then the President receives a full-throated exoneration. There’s no scenario in which the release of the full report helps the hoax boosters. I’ll say it again, bring it on.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coverup; cultureofcorruption; deepstate; jamescomey; lisapage; peterstrzok; robertmueller; trumprussia
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1 posted on 04/09/2019 5:52:22 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

Nadler and Schiff are two rats, ready to bite a piece of cheese from a trap.


2 posted on 04/09/2019 5:54:27 AM PDT by FreedBird
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To: billorites

This is going to be a great, big, cigar exploding in their faces.

Too bad Leftists are immune to irony.


3 posted on 04/09/2019 5:55:16 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: billorites

They know perfectly well it will never be released without heavy redaction. Since the contents are of no political value to them, they’ll try to attack the process to keep the smear alive. It’s all about the headlines.


4 posted on 04/09/2019 5:58:40 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: billorites

The only thing that worries me is that the Democrat strategy at this point seems beyond stupid. I just can’t believe that they are continuing to push the losing bet. Seems hard to believe.


5 posted on 04/09/2019 5:59:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They have gotten away with this kind of nonsense for so long that they simply don’t know when to quit.


6 posted on 04/09/2019 6:05:20 AM PDT by karnage
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To: ClearCase_guy

Of course one must never underestimate the stupidity of the American electorate.


7 posted on 04/09/2019 6:05:57 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: rlmorel

They will keep on pulling at that cork until it comes out and the goat lets go!


8 posted on 04/09/2019 6:11:08 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: billorites

My chief concern with the Dem position (and news media efforts to hide actual facts) is that they will use enough glorious obfuscation that the average American will simply get lost in the arguments that will ultimately ignore the truth.


9 posted on 04/09/2019 6:14:03 AM PDT by Pecos (My rights as an individual are not subject to a public vote.)
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To: karnage

Their Hail Mary attempt at this stage of the game is to spread enough innuendo so as to drive Trump’s poll numbers down to the 20s. Then they can attempt a Nixon technique to force him to resign.


10 posted on 04/09/2019 6:15:22 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: rlmorel
"This is going to be a great, big, cigar exploding in their faces."

I hope you're right.

But no amount of documentation turned over will end the life of the witch hunt. The suspicion has been embedded, and those who wish to believe in conspiracy will.

11 posted on 04/09/2019 6:19:56 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: billorites

They know that impeachment will lead, “to an inevitable disastrous trial in the Senate” but they will succeed in gumming up the second half of the president’s first term.

What I hope is that the DECLASS of the FISA warrants and the spying operations undertaken by the FBI, CIA and the Five Eyes foreign spymasters will expose the plots of the coup planners. There was so much going on in the Obama/Hillary white house and executive departments that must be exposed.


12 posted on 04/09/2019 6:23:14 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: billorites

No impeachment results in open rebellion by the Left. Impeachment will not be accepted by the rest of America.


13 posted on 04/09/2019 6:24:21 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: billorites

Mueller lied in the report by saying it was NOT an exoneration.

His only power it to indict (incriminate) or to not indict (exonerate).

He chose the latter.

It’s also a lie to say he made no conclusion on obstruction.

He concluded he lacked evidence to issue that indictment.

Hence he exonerated Trump on obstruction as well, whether he wants to call it that or not.


14 posted on 04/09/2019 6:32:10 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: billorites

The Progressive movement is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

However, they possess massive power and they are not about to relinquish it.

Now that they are becoming the subject of well-deserved ridicule, it only makes them furious.

I’m not particularly optimist on how this is all going to play out.


15 posted on 04/09/2019 6:45:03 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Progressives need to get over their love affair with abortion.)
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To: billorites

One can imagine a future in which Democrats, reflecting on our present, are shouting to their past selves, “Walk away!”


I don’t see any hint of regret, repentance. Even when caught in a lie it is your fault for catching them.

In general the concept of learning from personal history is lost, let alone the big picture of history.


16 posted on 04/09/2019 6:53:11 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: JusPasenThru

Their next move—Congress will subpoena every young woman from Salem, MA and make them prove they are not witches!


17 posted on 04/09/2019 6:54:17 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: billorites

Have to give AG Barr credit for ending the fishing expedition. Mueller obstructed justice when he destroyed evidence on Strozk and Page phones. Maybe AG pointed that out.


18 posted on 04/09/2019 6:58:34 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after rain had started falling.)
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To: zencycler

Mueller lied in the report by saying it was NOT an exoneration.

His only power it to indict (incriminate) or to not indict (exonerate).

He chose the latter.

It’s also a lie to say he made no conclusion on obstruction.

He concluded he lacked evidence to issue that indictment.

Hence he exonerated Trump on obstruction as well, whether he wants to call it that or not.


Excellent point worth repeating


19 posted on 04/09/2019 7:20:14 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: rlmorel

They are immune to thinking too it seems.


20 posted on 04/09/2019 7:32:46 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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