>>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.
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
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.
A “manufactured crisis”.
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.
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.
Translation: Mulehead will answer "I'm afraid I can't comment on anything not in the report" to EVERY Republican question, while elaborating in great non-report detail to every leading question asked by Democrats.
Congressman, lets see, if you turn to page 374 of the report, you can read that the efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow never came to fruition.
Take it to the bank, Mueller will look like a bumbling idiot.
NBC News running this screaming headline hey Rocky watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat...........................
The 'D' after so many lawmakers (state or Federal) stands for Decepticon. Get your children to read about the Decepticons in comic books or movies (such as 'Bumblebee').
Then when your children grow up, they will be better prepared for the real world...