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Bob Woodward on Mueller Report: Now We Wait For The Tapes
realclearpolitics.com ^ | 4/19/19 | Tim Hains

Posted on 04/20/2019 11:11:00 AM PDT by a little elbow grease

"Watergate" journalist Bob Woodward told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday that in the wake of the Mueller report, he is waiting for someone to come forward with "tapes or new evidence."

BOB WOODWARD: Well, first of all, I think the report is quite amazing, and the Attorney General Barr did himself a massive disservice because his letter quoted a portion of the report that looked like Trump was off the hook on obstruction of justice, but as we know on page 182, Mueller makes it very clear that they did not reach this issue because of evidence, because they could not make a determination determination. Joe may remember this, but the day Reagan was shot 1981 was it was Al Haig who rushed in and defined the way people were going to remember him by saying 'I'm in charge here.' Of course, he wasn't.

And Barr is going to be remembered for this because it was not — it was just a deception and a misrepresentation of what this report shows.

Now, where it goes, I think it turns on the quality of evidence. In the Nixon case again, I’m sorry to go back but the tapes showed conclusively the President of the United States ordered the payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars and their overseers. He did it again and again, said, 'Let’s blow the safe, let’s break in.'

Now, in the case of the Trump case here, they stumbled, Trump stumbled. It was kind of obstruction of justice-lite. There were lots of people who said, 'I’m not going to do these things that he ordered.' So where this goes, does somebody come up with tapes or new evidence? I think that would be the propellant here.

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To: a little elbow grease

It’s over Bob. It’s over.


61 posted on 04/20/2019 12:58:46 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: a little elbow grease

And this moron sees absolutely nothing wrong with a president using the intel community to spy on an opponent and to frame yt? He opponent when he wins.


62 posted on 04/20/2019 1:04:45 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Swordmaker

[The Watergate Burglars entered the DNC offices to plant bugs, electronic listening devices, not to blow a safe and pilfer. ]


Just like the FBI under Obama, on a false pretext they knew was literally manufactured by the Hillary campaign.


63 posted on 04/20/2019 1:07:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

actually, Trump should have cleaned house on day 1....this is one the real problem hes had..he didnt have his own people in place ready to go. When he fired Comey in May, by then, the media and the dems were really pushing the silly “collusion” story and it looked like Comey was fired because of the “investigation”. I knew they would be going after him because he won, but iv’e never seen anything like this. They threw everything at this guy and hes still standing...even more astonishing, hes got a good chance of getting re-elected. Theres only one real way to stop this...and what they’ve said about Barr the last few weeks, it might happen....gotta start marching these bastards in front of a Grand Jury.


64 posted on 04/20/2019 1:10:46 PM PDT by basalt
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To: Swordmaker

actually...a year before the Watergate break in, Nixon was furious about the Pentagon Papers leaks and he was convinced that other classified docs relating to Vietnam and other foriegn policy docs were being kept at the Brookings Institute, the left wing think tank. In a June 1971 tape. he ranted that he wanted Brookings fire bombed and the safes there to be cleaned out...his aides said he was just venting and not serious..but the media ate it up.


65 posted on 04/20/2019 1:25:34 PM PDT by basalt
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To: a little elbow grease

Bob should tell us why Deep Throat went to prison. For spying on the Weather Underground.

Obama wiredrapped an election. Lock him up.


66 posted on 04/20/2019 1:29:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: basalt

I agree..he should have gotten rid of ANYONE associated with Obama..anyone that worked under Obama, anyone that supported Obama, anyone that was within 10 feet of Obama should have been fired on the spot..just give a shout out and say “Ok you are all FIRED adios!” never understood why he kept Comey at all, Comey was NEVER going to be loyal to Trump, he was only loyal to Obama and to Hillary Clinton, the fact that she was never charged for the emails alone showed that Comey was in her pocket..but Trump still kept him on, and by the time he was fired in May, the media already had their narrative that he was fired for not doing Trump’s “bidding”


67 posted on 04/20/2019 1:30:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: a little elbow grease

They might have reel to reel at the home Bob but they’re used in the real world anymore. Go away you are embarrassing yourself and your party.


68 posted on 04/20/2019 1:30:42 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Swordmaker

Ask Bob Woodward about 80,000 deletefed emails, a wiped server, smashed portable devices, a tarmac meeting with the AG...


69 posted on 04/20/2019 1:38:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a little elbow grease

Bob has embarrassed himself more than once.


70 posted on 04/20/2019 1:41:47 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: a little elbow grease

The leftist assholes like Woodward would literally destroy the entire country to try and take down Trump. All because of their personal hatred of him, and by extension their hatred of us.

It’s time to fight this war like a real war... Because it is. We’ll lose the country and probably our lives if we’re not willing to fight for it.


71 posted on 04/20/2019 1:46:14 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, if you’re an (R), “cooperating with the investigation” means falling on your sword, pretending guilt, and naming whatever co-conspirators they imagine for you.


72 posted on 04/20/2019 1:52:11 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Funny!


73 posted on 04/20/2019 1:53:55 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: samtheman
Woodward has become a legend in his own mind. Tapes? In what decade?

He can prove with "Geometric Logic" that those tapes do exist.

74 posted on 04/20/2019 1:57:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Flick Lives
How I wish some 4chan would send this to Bob:

75 posted on 04/20/2019 2:57:50 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: FreedomNotSafety

You kill them by ignoring them. Our eyeballs equal money.

The days of marching with pitchforks are long gone.


76 posted on 04/20/2019 3:12:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: Flick Lives

I had every one of those. The funny thing is I cannot recall ever throwing one out. It’s like they silently left, one at a time.


77 posted on 04/20/2019 3:16:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: a little elbow grease

A man on a diet is out to dinner with his wife. He’s not cheated on his diet for weeks. However, he’s craving the triple chocolate cake to the point where he tells his wife to order it and share it with him, but she talks him out of it. Question: Did he cheat on his diet? That’s what the Democrats and media are trying to claim about our president. They accuse him of obstructing the investigation of a crime he didn’t commit because he wanted to fire Mueller and do other things to stop the assault on his presidency, but he was talked out of it by his advisors.


78 posted on 04/20/2019 3:25:53 PM PDT by Skeptical constituent
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To: a little elbow grease

Notice how pathetic Woodward is...

For water gate, there was a spying crime, and they were digging for proof Nixon was involved.

For spygate, the illegal spying conducted on Trump and his campaign was the actual crime, and they are still trying to invent a reason to justify the criminal activity conducted by Clinton and FBI/DOJ hacks.

Woodward has killed his credibility to the point of even diminishing his water gate work.

Anyone involved in perpetuating this lie should face massive financial liability...

Woodward should be at the top of a list of fraudsters who profited off of the collusion lie. People like him should be sued for fraud!


79 posted on 04/20/2019 3:33:59 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
>> This clown is like an aging sports star telling the grandkids about the good old days of taking down an evil Republican. <<

Some of use on FreeRepublic refer to him as the Al Bundy of journalists.
What I find pathetic is that after issuing more than 2,800 subpoenas and hundreds of hours of legal and illegal surveillance these idiots can't make a case that the media was salivating about for 2 years.
80 posted on 04/20/2019 3:35:06 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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