So the redacted version of the Mueller Report is out.
So what.
Like most Americans, I suspect, I’m glad it’s out. But there was nothing in there that surprised me. In fact, there was really no “there” there after
all.
I won’t bother reading the entire thing. There’s no point. I’ll leave all the breathless parsing of every
word to the folks in the tinfoil hats.
Like Democrats. And the left-leaning media. They’ll see what they want to see as they
always do. They’re just like people who
see images of Jesus in burnt toast or in a peanut-butter sandwich. Or shadows
that prove the existence of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
They are true believers and there’s no changing their minds.
Why bother?
I say let them have at it.
I have seen enough of the excerpts from both the Trump fans
and Trump haters to form my own conclusions, however. And much like Bill Barr’s summary, I’ll keep
it brief.
First, the Russians did try to interfere with our elections
by pumping out disinformation through social media that ultimately had no effect
on the results. In a campaign that that spent close to $2-billiion, between
Trump and Clinton, the Russians spent a couple of hundred thousand bucks total,
mostly on embarrassingly bland postings.
They did have a role in the leaks of Podesta’s e-mails, but
nobody associated with Trump worked with them.
They also tried multiple times to get Trump campaign staff to work with them
with promises of damaging info on Clinton, but nobody took the bait. Nobody.
Net/net: Trump and his campaign never colluded with Russia
to win the Presidency.
Next, here's a big surprise: Trump is not a nice guy. He has a bad temper, especially
when he thinks he’s getting screwed over. He lashes out at those he thinks let
him down. He’s not afraid to
counterattack publicly when he feels he’s been wronged and call out by name
those he believes are attacking him unfairly.
He thinks the media and the political establishment – particularly Democrats
and never-Trumpers in the bureaucracy – are out to get him any way they can, by
any means at their disposal.
The Mueller Report proves his point.
Most of the second “volume” of the report is dedicated to
exposing all of the above. As if nobody knew all that. Still, name-calling and being a nasty bastard at times isn’t a crime.
Nor is it evidence of obstruction of justice.
Finally, the Mueller team tried desperately to find
something, anything, to bring down Trump. It’s clear now that they were
absolutely pissed, despite unlimited resources and a hand-picked group of Trump
haters working with other Trump haters in the bureaucracy, to come up empty.
They hated Trump for constantly disparaging them as participating
in a politically motivated “hoax.” They despised him for questioning their
integrity, and the integrity of Mueller.
They wanted so much to nail him they tried everything. Yet they failed to prove anything. Any
evidence of a crime. Any evidence of criminal
intent. Nothing.
In the end, they
settled for bad-mouthing him on the obstruction issue.
That’s because they couldn’t actually prove obstruction of
justice.
First, you can’t obstruct a crime that wasn’t committed
(collusion and conspiracy) and second because they were never denied any access
to Trump staff or documents. In essence, Trump never did anything to impede the investigation. He may have wanted to, but he didn't.
Trump encouraged his staff to testify truthfully. Trump’s people handed over 1.4-million
documents requested by Mueller, an unprecedented number of documents for any
special counsel probe. Trump never asserted Executive Privilege to withhold
anything during the probe, or in the report itself, which he was within his
rights to do.
Since they couldn’t prove obstruction, they had to do something
to get some revenge. They stated that even though they couldn’t
prove obstruction, they couldn’t disprove it either.
What? That’s like saying we don’t have enough evidence to
prove you committed a crime, but hey, maybe somebody else might. And oh, by the
way, here’s where to start.
They might just as well have said: “Hey … Democrats in Congress,
are you listening?”
So much for their impartiality. And they think Trump is petty and vindictive?
My final conclusion is that the entire Mueller investigation
was a sham. But I thought that from the beginning. The report just proves it. If they could have found anything worthy of
indictment of Trump, they would have done it. No matter how flimsy or
convoluted the case.
But they couldn’t. To me, it’s over. I’m done with it at last. Thank God.
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