Lol Devastating? no...Billie.jeens wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:52 pmMost of that is actually false or wildly spun - but even if it were true -ReadingRainbow wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:16 am
Collusion is not now, nor has it ever been a definition of a crime... what they did find however was:
Two Trump campaign officials — Paul Manafort and Rick Gates — provided polling information to a Russian oligarch Gates believed was a “spy” for the Kremlin
Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, with Trump’s approval, tried to arrange meetings between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russia tried to hack Hillary Clinton’s office five hours after Trump called on Moscow to find her deleted emails
The report makes it clear that:
1) the Russian government tried to help Trump win;
2) the Trump campaign was eager to benefit from hackings targeting Democrats; and
3) Trump’s campaign advisers had a lot of troubling ties to Russia.
Mueller examined 10 episodes where Trump possibly obstructed justice during the investigation. Some of the most egregious examples:
Trump directed White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, which McGahn refused to do
Trump tried to pressure then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to un-recuse himself and curtail the investigation
Trump and his lawyers urged key figures (like Manafort) not to “flip” and attacked those who did flip (like Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen)
Nowhere did Mueller state that Trump didn’t obstruct justice, either. He wrote, “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.”
Mueller added that Trump’s “efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.”
And he noted that “Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.”
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/4/19/185 ... on-summary
It has to be devastating for folk like you who thought Mueller was going to take Trump down. yes?
Unlike Trump, I am able to simply accept the conclusion of a well-run investigation and move on with life...
He should try it sometime... Works wonders for the skin and your complexion when you let go of anger
