Posted on 07/21/2019 11:14:41 PM PDT by knighthawk
The circus is coming to town and the carnival barkers are working up a sweat trying to spark interest. So far, ticket sales are slow.
Robert Mueller is slated to appear in Washington’s Big Tent Wednesday when he testifies to two House committees. The former special counsel threw a wet blanket on expectations by vowing he wouldn’t say anything beyond what’s in his report, but the hype machine still promises a sensational show.
Naturally, the anti-Trump media are doing their best to pump oxygen into the dead-of-summer event, with NBC News running this screaming headline on a setup article: “Mueller hearings to highlight ‘shocking evidence of criminal misconduct by Trump,’ Democrats say.”
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>>he former special counsel threw a wet blanket on expectations by vowing he wouldn’t say anything beyond what’s in his report<<
The democrats just want him to repeat it PASSIONATELY.
Final!?
Dream on
They’ll go on for as long a time as the Clintons have been with us.
“Final!?
Dream on”
Ya beat me to it. It may get to final when Trump finishes his second term. Even then, there’s no guarantee.
They’re going to ask him to read a section of the report and then ask if it is his belief that it is true, and does it meet the definition of an impeachable offense. The Republicans, hopefully, will then have him read the findings stating that it did not rise to the level of a criminal offense.
Chris Wallace, while interviewing
no nads Nadler, replied during
his sign-off with no nads, “let’s
hope it’s not a dud”, referring
to no nads’ investigation and
Muellers’ upcoming testimony.
Wallace is a redcoat.
Wallace is more than a Red Coat. Straight up saboteur and doesn’t even hide it, never has. You can do that when you’re one of the “untouchables”. It’d be so great to force him and those like him to live with the consequences of the policies they support, not allow them to leave, so they experience their neighborhoods devolve into 3rd world ugly and be afraid to leave your home.
His arrogance is getting sickening. Be nice if him, Kristol and their ilk took one of their cruises through the Bermuda Triangle and were never heard from again. But, then again, he’s one of the big dogs at Fox and that channel will soon be competing with MSNBC and the rest.
If the president acts in his official capacity, his underlying intent is irrelevant. For example, if the president fires Jim Comey because the despises the man's politics, it is not a crime rather it is a protected action authorized by the Constitution.
The Democrats want to impeach the president for obstruction of justice when they really mean they want to impeach him for obstructing his own exoneration. The president, of course, knew that there was no underlying crime, therefore, he could have no intent to obstruct the prosecution of an underlying crime. Democrats want to argue that political motives constitute a motive which renders an otherwise constitutional act by a president a high crime or misdemeanor. If that were the case virtually every presidential action would be grounds for impeachment.
To get around this problem, the Democrats are resorting to re-litigating whether there was any collusion with Russia. If there were a conspiracy (not collusion), there could be felonious intent but every one of 4 investigations have concluded that there was no collusion, improper or otherwise, and, by deduction, no conspiracy. No underlying crime, no intent.
Finally, if private citizen Donald Trump called for the firing of Jim Comey, or of Robert Muller, that cannot possibly be a crime but would be merely an exercise of free speech. Even if Donald Trump private citizen were being investigated by Jim Comey or Robert Muller for some alleged crime, he would still be legally entitled to say either one should be removed from the investigation because, for example, Muller was allegedly conflicted-as President Trump alleged.
The Democrats are conflating two situations. On the one hand they want to impeach the president for firing Comey or for calling for the removal of Muller but a president has the constitutional power to do so. A private citizen does not have that power. But for the president to conceivably have committed an impeachable offense in calling for the firing of these two men, a protected constitutional act of the chief executive, he would have had to be protecting either an underlying crime or some other malevolent motive. There was no underlying crime, and playing politics or even protecting one's own personal or political reputation cannot be conceived as such, or every president who ever served from George Washington to today has committed an impeachable offense.
The Muller report flirts with the proposition that "personal motives" can render a constitutionally privileged act of the President of the United States somehow illegal and therefore impeachable:
In this investigation, the evidence does not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference. But the evidence does point to a range of other possible personal motives animating the President’s conduct. These include concerns that continued investigation would call into question the legitimacy of his election and potential uncertainty about whether certain events — such as advance notice of WikiLeaks’s release of hacked information or the June 9, 2016 meeting between senior campaign officials and Russians — could be seen as criminal activity by the President, his campaign, or his family.
"Personal motives" or political motives to protect a president's reputation simply cannot be made grounds for impeachment of an otherwise constitutionally protected act of the President of the United States. To do so would wreck our government. Not even Robert Muller (or whoever actually wrote the report) dares to go that far and that is why Muller did not either indict the president or recommend his impeachment.
An utter waste of time
If AG Barr has access to all classified material, how does [MUELLER] navigate? If [MUELLER] provides FALSE and/or MISLEADING testimony, will AG Barr be forced to DECLAS all documentation to ensure full public awareness of the TRUTH? If [MUELLER] defers to the original report but D's / FAKE NEWS push a false narrative 'knowing majority of the public did not watch the actual hearing' will AG Barr be forced to DECLAS all documentation to ensure full public awareness of the TRUTH?
A thoughtful reading of the above should help you understand why the delay in the IG report, the [Comey] report, and DECLAS and the strategy involved.
[Mueller] in a box.
Please tell me you guys understand this.
and TRUST THE PLAN.
Mueller is as relevant as the Grand Army of the Republic now but didn’t I read that Aug 15 is the expected drop date for the Horowitz report?
Once again the Democrat scum can’t see past the next Sunday talk show and think they’ll get their narrative machine warmed up with Perjury Trap Bob...who just may end up in a trap of his own....to preempt Horowitz.
You’re just noticing that? Chris Wallace has been a turncoat seditionist for a looong time, just like Bret Baier.........they’re just both real good st faking “fair and balanced” until thy can sneak in their progressive singers.
Shepherd and Napolitano are even worse. Freaks me out just to watch their pomposity!! Insane!!!!
A “manufactured crisis”.
You are sadly absolutely right. IF I watch FOX now, which I rarely do anymore, I can count only on Hannity, Ingraham, and usually Ticker for truth. Most of the time even they give too much debate airtime to rude, combative, really stupid Democrats who hog the conversation and don’t let go.....reminding me of a preying mantis trapping and devouring a beautiful hummingbird. Check videos of that on YouTube......it is really evil-ugly!!!
In the future there will be entire university departments created to teach the great subject of Why Trump Should Have Been Impeached. You will be able to get your PhD in Term One or Term Two, with specialty degrees in things like Trump Towers Conversations With Russians and What Did Sessions Not Know And When Did He Not Know It.
didn’t I read that Aug 15 is the expected drop date for the Horowitz report?
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Did they mention which year?
In the future there will be entire university departments created to teach the great subject of Why Trump Should Have Been Impeached. You will be able to get your PhD in Term One or Term Two, with specialty degrees in things like Trump Towers Conversations With Russians and What Did Sessions Not Know And When Did He Not Know It.
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You forgot to mention that if you’re white you’ll have to pay double for the course to make up for past crimes against humanity and, of course, any dissenting opinion would result in immediate expulsion and / or re-education.
Two courses of action.
1) Stand by the contents of the report.
2) Lie his friggin’ ass off, telling Nadler and his Coven what they want to believe.
If he chooses CoA 2, he will end up being prossecuted for everything, including Whitey Bulger.
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