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Mueller Report Release Spirals Into Political Gamesmanship
https://hosted.ap.org/ ^ | 4/17/2019 | CHAD DAY, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Posted on 04/17/2019 8:08:02 PM PDT by bitt

After nearly two years of waiting, America will get some answers straight from Robert Mueller— but not before President Donald Trump's attorney general has his say.

Special counsel Robert Mueller drives away from his Washington home on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Outstanding questions about the special counsel's Russia investigation have not stopped President Donald Trump and his allies from declaring victory. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) View all (2) The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to release a redacted version of the special counsel's report on Russian election interference and Trump's campaign, opening up months, if not years, of fights over what the document means in a deeply divided country.

Even the planned release of the nearly 400-page report quickly spiraled into a political battle Wednesday over whether Attorney General William Barr is attempting to shield the president who appointed him and spin the report's findings before the American people can read it and come to their own judgments.

Barr will hold a 9:30 a.m. news conference to present his interpretation of the report's findings, before providing redacted copies to Congress and the public. The news conference, first announced by Trump during a radio interview, provoked immediate criticism from congressional Democrats.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Barr had "thrown out his credibility & the DOJ's independence with his single-minded effort to protect" Trump. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "The process is poisoned before the report is even released."

"Barr shouldn't be spinning the report at all, but it's doubly outrageous he's doing it before America is given a chance to read it," Schumer said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; chadday; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; erictucker; jamescomey; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; michaelbalsamo; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; schumer; smearmachine
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To: thoughtomator

“It is to such a degree that coexistence is no longer desirable”.

Or possible. It’s war for certain from now on.


21 posted on 04/17/2019 8:33:55 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Even if it were possible it would still not be desirable.

These people are criminally insane and a danger to the public. The entire party is one big crime ring.


22 posted on 04/17/2019 8:37:01 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: ClearCase_guy
[PANIC IN DC]


23 posted on 04/17/2019 8:50:48 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bitt

Twitter’s in a tizzy. It is hilarious. I am so drunk from all the liberal tears. There is an abundance of them.


24 posted on 04/17/2019 8:55:06 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: bitt

Hopefully, Barr will use his press conference to announce indictments against the corrupt democratic leadership and the heads of the intelligence agencies who corrupted the process.


25 posted on 04/17/2019 9:01:40 PM PDT by dunblak
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To: bitt

Barr hasn’t even held his presser yet and Schumer’s aready accusing him of spinning.


26 posted on 04/17/2019 9:01:56 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: bitt
Mueller Report Release Spirals Into Political Gamesmanship

What does that even mean, exactly? What do those reporters think has been going on for the last two years?

27 posted on 04/17/2019 9:01:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bitt

The Democrats are so worried that the report is going make them look stupid. So they are trying to get ahead of it and sway the American public. I do believe some Democrats are going to be horribly embarrassed by the report


28 posted on 04/17/2019 9:08:00 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: thoughtomator

I understand. But what can we do? We can’t coexist with people who are a threat to our security, prosperity and freedom and who will certainly eliminate us.


29 posted on 04/17/2019 9:10:29 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: napscoordinator

“Twitter’s in a tizzy”.

Denial of the truth is an ugly thing.


30 posted on 04/17/2019 9:13:10 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Fedora

Amen.


31 posted on 04/17/2019 9:17:47 PM PDT by Sivad (Demo M/O = infiltrate, overtake, politicize, weaponize)
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To: laplata

.......”Denial of the truth is an ugly thing”.....

Demorats are so used to living in a sea of their own lies that they cannot bring themselves to believe in the truth.....they have ‘taught their mouths’ to speak lies and they weary themselves to commit to further lying........ They are also the ones who will be prepared to accept the ultimate lie of the ages!


32 posted on 04/17/2019 9:21:54 PM PDT by caww
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To: laplata; thoughtomator
But what can we do? We can’t coexist with people who are a threat to our security, prosperity and freedom and who will certainly eliminate us.

The first step is in realizing that THEY are asking themselves the VERY SAME QUESTION.

33 posted on 04/17/2019 9:21:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: laplata

James Dresden wrote...... “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”.....

There is a spirit of the current age that does not lead people to truth but gives them the impression they are right.


34 posted on 04/17/2019 9:23:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: bitt

Rep. Matt Gatez (R-FL) on Wednesday filed a resolution to remove House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the Committee and revoke his security clearance.

#BREAKING: Today I filed the “PENCIL Act,” expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that “Congressman Adam Schiff should be removed from the House Intelligence Committee and his security clearance immediately revoked.” pic.twitter.com/1FsMt6NUjr— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 11, 2019

Gatetz appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to explain why he filed the resolution.

“I have filed legislation today, sent to the House, that Adam Schiff needs to be removed from the Intelligence Committee, because how are the rest of us supposed to be able to rely on a man, who you just showed, lied to the American people when he said that there was not spying? Or when he lied and said that there was actual evidence of collusion or clear evidence of collusion?” Gaetz began.

“If Adam Schiff is able to review covert operations and intelligence, and if we have to rely on his representation, our whole system is broken," Gatez said. "It would be like putting Lori Loughlin in charge of the college board. It would be like putting Jussie Smollett in charge of the hate crime of the FBI.


35 posted on 04/17/2019 9:24:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone trusting the media has failed a competency check or/and is a paid troll for the lefties.)
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To: Billthedrill
What does that even mean, exactly?

That they (MSM) are working very hard to ensure everyone believes that the report is just political gamemanship and not to pay any attention to any incriminating facts involving any democrats.

36 posted on 04/17/2019 9:27:31 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: bitt

Yeah, that it, it’s a ‘game’.
No it’s not and, certain people should be swinging.

This is not a game!
This is my country.


37 posted on 04/17/2019 9:27:42 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: Steely Tom
They only get away with this because they own so much of the MSM.

Some of them are literally married to it.

38 posted on 04/17/2019 9:29:00 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: bagster

39 posted on 04/17/2019 9:32:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

What a photo of the dark side!


40 posted on 04/17/2019 9:33:42 PM PDT by caww
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