Instead he sent out a four-page letter. (via Lawfare)
According to Barr's letter:
- Mueller found that Russia did act to interfere with the 2016 elections, but the investigation could not find trump's campaign "conspired or coordinated" with the Russian government.
I just look at that June 2016 meeting at trump Tower and say bullshit to that. I look at 30 years of history with trump and Russia and say bullshit to that.
- Mueller looked into trump's firing of FBI Director Comey as possibly related to obstructing any investigation into Mike Flynn, and "did not draw a conclusion... as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction."
In other words, Mueller and others at the DoJ refused to overrule the standing rule of indicting sitting Presidents. FUCK THAT. "He may or may not have broken the law... It does not exonerate him"? What a goddamn wishy-washy stance to take on criminal acts. This isn't about exonerating trump: This should have been about holding people accountable to the Law.
- Barr notes that he is "mindful" of the public interest in the scandals and a desire to read the entire report. But there is no sign he is releasing the full report, he's making noises about dribbling parts of it out, pieces at a time.
HELL NO.
Release the Mueller Report, Barr.
Get the Mueller Report and make it public, Congress.
And to the trumpsters out there cheering and clapping and pissing at all the libtards who were hoping for justice here: trump's cronies still broke laws and 17 of them are seeing jail time. Your boy trump is not some GODDAMN SAVIOR, he's a GODDAMN CROOK.
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We may have to wait until after his presidency to prosecute him, but he should still be prosecuted for the crimes, like campaign finance law violations that we know he's guilty of.
The prosecutors still working on those charges need to remember that part of how we got where we are is the failure to follow through on previous presidential misdeeds: Nixon was pardoned, as were some of the Iran/Contra criminals, and we didn't even try to prosecute the torturers from the Bush administration.
So now high ranking Republicans believe they will never face legal consequences for anything they do, as long as they have their asses covered politically.
They need to be disabused of that notion, because as things stand they are entirely correct about it.
Also, we need to see what's in the report, and fuck the sanctity of the grand jury, precedent needs to be established that when the president is credibly accused of felonies, the citizens get to know about it.
And yes, the goddamn Republicans will try to abuse that the second we have a Democratic president, but just add that to the long and growing list of things they will need to be beat back from the abuse of.
We can't scrap the rule of law just because the Republicans can't be trusted with it. They either have to grow the fuck up, or be disqualified from positions of power and trust that they abuse.
In other words, we need to win the senate back in 2020 no matter what else happens.
-Doug in Oakland
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