This will be a fair criticism once the report is actually released. Not sure what you’re talking about here.
“No evidence” is a ridiculously hyperbolic (and false by implication, from a careful reading of the summary letter) assertion, especially when the only summary of the report comes from the Trump administration’s DOJ. A careful reading implies to me that there was indeed evidence of obstruction, but it may not have risen to the strength required to warrant an indictment by the (Trump admininstration’s) DOJ.
I believe we went over this in depth at the time. The power and authority to classify or unclassify anything resides in the executive branch. The authority is generally delegated to a lower level in the executive branch but that doesn’t mean the president doesn’t have the authority to declassify whatever he wants. For better or worse. Congress of course has their own constitutionally provided recourses. And this is why I know aliens have never visited the earth. Trump would’ve spilled the beans on day one.
This person was referring to the Mueller report itself, not the Trump DOJ summary. She made that clear in subsequent tweets.
Who the hell is Nadler?
Okay, nevermind.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Fair enough. I’m not a lawyer, but I guess I have to parse my words more carefully on this board, or a small semantic difference will be elevated to ‘ridiculous hyperbole’.
“There was no actionable evidence for collusion or obstruction that would lead to a reasonable indictment of Trump or anyone in his orbit.”
Is that better?
She saw the report before the AG reported on the summary?
Her source did, apparently. She was reporting the words of one of her sources.
The thread on Twitter would take 45 seconds to read.
“The opinion of Trump’s AG, who prior to being confirmed had been extremely critical of Mueller’s investigation, is that there was no actionable evidence for collusion or obstruction that would lead to a reasonable indictment of Trump or anyone in his orbit”. That would be better, IMO.
I just read it. hashtag unverified. Time will tell, I suppose, but it looks like Trump just broke through the tape at the finish line, and that it was not bad for Trump at all.
Exonerated for collusion. Not for violating the emoluments clause, tax fraud, campaign finance violations, illegal use of inaugural funds, and about a dozen other crimes
If by ‘Better’ you mean adding a conspiratorial, non-fact based assumption that Trump’s AG and Ron Rosenstein are somehow covering up for Trump.
Because, of course, if he lied about what the report actually said, no one could ever actually disprove it by, say, leaking the report or parts of it.
It shouldn’t really be a surprise to us that the Trump AG’s summary of the Mueller report looks good for Trump on the surface. It would have been almost shocking if it hadn’t been.
Huh? It was a factual statement. That should be kept in mind for a political document such as this. And it doesn’t even require lies – Barr might genuinely believe there’s no solid case for obstruction. I’m saying that based on the things Barr has already said, this doesn’t actually tell us much at all about what is in the report.
I had not seen the news. I slept late.
Shit. They don’t care about treason. The other stuff is small potatoes.
Yeah, and after the big NULL of a two year special prosecutor investigation, Americans are really clamoring for more of the same.
The people who really lost in this debacle were the media. Public opinion flipped on the Mueller investigation some time ago, and a majority saw it as mostly a political attack on the President. So by all means, keep it up. If the House keeps opening investigation after investigation and continues to find nothing, Trump is going to be the big winner.
One of the concerns I’ve had all along in the era of Trump is the potential for people to reach the conclusion that there’s no way to know the truth, and that it’s just politics as usual.
Authoritarianism scored a major victory today.
It’ll be interesting to see how Trump moves on from this, and I’ll be curious to see Barr’s relationship with him. Barr, for all of his faults, seems like basically a guy who’s interested in being attorney general and not just some toadie like Matt Whitaker.