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Graham Invites Mueller to Dispute Barr
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 3, 2019 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 05/03/2019 4:29:45 PM PDT by Kaslin

RUSH: Get this. Lindsey Graham, who’s chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has written a letter to the special counsel. “Dear Mr. Mueller: Thank you and your team very much for the professional and thorough manner in which you conducted your investigation.”

They didn’t. This is just Senator Graham being typically Washington polite. This investigation was a sham. The report is a sham. As Emmet Flood’s letter details, it is not the prosecutor’s job to exonerate anybody, and just because he couldn’t exonerate Trump on obstruction did not give him the right to list all of the crap in this report about what Trump said to who and when. It’s nothing more than defamatory. It was purposely defamatory.

This stuff is not permitted in the U.S. criminal justice system. A perp, a suspect is presumed innocent from the get-go. He doesn’t have to prove he didn’t do it. They have to prove he did, and it’s no different for Donald Trump, whether he’s president or not. So when Mueller says, “Well, I couldn’t exonerate the president on the subject of…” It’s not your job to exonerate! This was done purposely. It was done purposely to indicate, “We think he did something; we just can’t find it.”

Well, that’s not what prosecutors get to do. They do not get to impugn people who are not charged. They do not get to impugn people they are not gonna take to court, and that’s exactly what Mueller has done here! This report should have been no more than two pages. All 448 pages of the report are nothing but slander and libel, if you ask me, and I’m dead serious about that. That may be a bit excessive, but I’m telling you.

It’s unwarranted, it’s unnecessary, and it is in such violation of regulations, the law and ethics. I just can’t let it go even though Lindsey Graham here is thanking Mueller and his team “for the professional and thorough manner.” Anyway, here’s the gist of it: “On the eve of Attorney General Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, several news outlets broke a story alleging that you believed Attorney General Barr’s March 24, 2019, letter to this Committee ‘did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance’ of your investigation.’

“Of course, Attorney General Barr has since released your report to the public, including your executive summaries, with redactions deemed necessary by both you and the Department of Justice, and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In response to questions by Senator Blumenthal, the attorney general testified in essence that you told him in a phone call that you did not challenge the accuracy of the attorney general’s summary of your report’s principal conclusions, but rather you wanted more of the report, particularly the executive summaries concerning obstruction of justice, to be released promptly.

“In particular, Attorney General Barr testified that you believed media coverage of your investigation was unfair without the public release of those summaries.” This is another… You know, these Washington people, they live and die with media approval, media image and this kind of thing and here’s Mueller running around whining about the fact the media’s not treating him fairly. He couldn’t survive a half a day in Trump’s shoes.

Anyway, so Lindsey Graham says, “Please inform the Committee if you would like to provide testimony,” i.e., under oath, “regarding any misrepresentation by the attorney general of the substance of that phone call.” So he’s saying (summarized), “Come up here! If you think you were misrepresented, if you think that your report has somehow been improperly represented by the AG, come up here under oath and tell us so.” I’m gonna tell you what else this is. This stupid redaction business… They are trying…

The truth of the matter is that Barr and Mueller together did the redactions in this report, and 95% of the report has been released. Ninety-five percent! The redactions were done by Mueller and Barr working together. The Democrats are trying to make the case that Trump did the redactions, that Trump did it, and that Trump’s getting away with hiding what he did, and that Mueller knows the truth about it. This is such BS! So I think Senator Graham is essentially saying, “Hey, if you’re upset with the way the attorney general characterized your report, come on up here, Mr. Mueller, and tell us what really happened — under oath.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: barr; house; mueller; rush; transcript

1 posted on 05/03/2019 4:29:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

That swamp creature bastard should have made a beeline to the nearest mic today to defend his buddy whose “wives have bible study together”, instead his silence speaks volumes!! MR.BARR KNOW YOUR ENEMIES WELL!! Friend my @$$!! Backstabbing weasel!


2 posted on 05/03/2019 4:36:28 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Kaslin

Hey, come on Mueller. This is your chance big guy.


3 posted on 05/03/2019 4:38:19 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: Kaslin

Bring that LYING TRAITOR up tp testify!! Mule Face will be LUCKY if he’s not in PRISON in 4 years! It takes that long for Pubbies to ACT!..SLOW FOOTED and SLOW WITTED!


4 posted on 05/03/2019 4:43:55 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

he needs to go down


5 posted on 05/03/2019 4:45:54 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

I think Mueller knows the jig is up and he needs to skedaddle out of town while the skedaddling is good. He will avoid saying anything under oath like the plague. He knows soon he will be behind closed doors, under oath, having his Come to Jesus moment with the truth.


6 posted on 05/03/2019 4:47:45 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: Kaslin

He will decline.


7 posted on 05/03/2019 4:51:32 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: 1FreeAmerican

If he has half a brain he’ll decline.


8 posted on 05/03/2019 5:08:09 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: 1FreeAmerican
Agreed that he will decline, which is the point Lindsey wants to make. I suspect, however, that Mueller wasn't the evil in this investigation, but Weissman, who quit a month ago so that he wouldn't be forced to testify before the senate.

Weissman would have had plenty of moral support to pressure Mueller from Baker, Strocz, McCabe, the Ohrs, maybe Wray, and most of the rest of the slimes

9 posted on 05/03/2019 5:08:52 PM PDT by chiller (As Davey Crockett once said: Be sure you're right. Then go ahead. I'm goin' ahead.)
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To: Kaslin

Mueller does not want his prosecution case to be cross-examined.


10 posted on 05/03/2019 5:16:19 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: Kaslin

Here’s a clip of what prompted Graham’s letter to Mueller.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4795411/barrs-response-sen-blumenthals-question-notes-phone-call-robert-meuller


11 posted on 05/03/2019 5:44:28 PM PDT by rwa265
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To: Not A Snowbird

He’ll testify to Nadler and ignore Graham. As Barr has ignored Nadler the Dems can say Mueller gets to do the same.


12 posted on 05/03/2019 6:30:03 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Yep - his comments over Pelosi smearing Barr says that Barr had a “chit-chat” with him when he bitched about the op-ed (disguised as a report) presentation...


13 posted on 05/04/2019 4:44:04 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: chiller

Still, who hired Weissman?

Why pure ole Bob Mueller did.


14 posted on 05/04/2019 4:55:40 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Kaslin

15 posted on 05/05/2019 8:40:25 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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