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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
mueller said he couldn’t get into things that were already in the report. that’s also a joke.
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The continuing counterintelligence investigation and the investigation into the origins of the investigation precluded Mueller from going into many things. Gym Jordan knew that. Mueller did discuss with Barr the parameters of his testimony.
Muellers object in testifying was obviously to not provide either side with ahah clips. He did not perform a political operation, though Trumplicans certainly have tried to paint it as such. Since Republicans could not question the contents of the report without hurting Trump, they chose to attack the messenger.
The Republicans have currently adopted Alinsky's rules and are using them somewhat effectively but rule #7 is "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag". Many people are getting sick of Trump's negative attacks and racism.
What Mueller found and is contained in the report is that President Trump and his campaign officials knowingly welcomed help from the Russians and had at least 140 contacts with Russian operatives. And that they failed to report the Russians’ activities to law enforcement even after the FBI briefed them on the threat. This evidence is damning on its own. It was worth investigating. Once again, that this investigating didn’t uncover sufficient evidence to bring conspiracy charges against the president is a total relief for the country. But because the probe was merited, the charge that it was a “hoax” has been disproven.
If these were the days of Watergate, there would be Republicans who never would’ve used such a word to describe Mueller’s work. There would be Republican representatives like Manley Caldwell Butler of Virginia, who said of Nixon’s offenses, “These things have happened in our house, and it is our responsibility to do what we can to clear it up. It is we, not the Democrats, who must demonstrate that we are capable of enforcing the high standards we would set for them.” Republicans like Butler had a spine. Most Republicans today don’t. So of course they can’t help but lie at the feet of a president whose boots they lick.