#muller report

[pawglia]

"Charlie Kirk holds court a few steps away from a cardboard cutout of himself. Real-Life Charlie is taller than Cardboard Charlie, but Cardboard Charlie has red lipstick on one cheek, presumably from a real-life kiss."

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[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

‘Crazy s--t’: White House lawyer says Trump told him to mislead Mueller despite likely criminality

Trump kept pressuring the former White House lawyer, Donald McGahn, about it, making him feel “trapped,” he testified before the House Judic

Former President Donald Trump ordered his top White House attorney to issue a false statement at the height of the Mueller investigation even though he knew the lying could carry criminal consequences for both of them, according to newly unearthed congressional testimony.

Donald McGahn, who served as Trump’s first White House counsel, told members of the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door hearing last week that the ex-president instructed him to issue a statement in February 2018 denying that he had ever tried to fire Mueller, according to a 241-page transcript of the testimony released Wednesday.

Trump knew that statement “would not have been accurate” since he had ordered McGahn months earlier to orchestrate Mueller’s firing — a demand McGahn refused, he testified.

Trump also knew at the time that McGahn had already told Mueller’s investigators the truth, and that the special counsel would not take kindly to the White House lawyer giving conflicting accounts of a key episode in his probe into whether the former president obstructed justice, according to the testimony.

“(Mueller) had already publicly made clear he was going after various people for that, and that certainly is one that would weigh on anybody’s mind,” McGahn testified, referring to false statement crimes, according to the transcript.

Nonetheless, Trump kept pressuring McGahn, making him feel “trapped,” he testified.

“Frustrated, perturbed, trapped,” he told lawmakers. “Many emotions ... Trapped because the president had the same conversation with me repeatedly, and I thought I conveyed my views and offered my advice, and we were still having the same conversation.”

One of the judiciary committee’s investigators asked McGahn during the June 4 hearing if he agreed with the characterization that Trump was asking him to “do crazy s--t” in first demanding Mueller’s firing and then requesting a statement claiming it never happened.

“I think it’s fair,” McGahn replied.

Trump tried to block McGahn from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee for years, but the panel’s chairman, New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, ultimately prevailed in court.

In a statement Wednesday, Nadler said McGahn’s testimony provided “firsthand accounts of President Trump’s increasingly out of control behavior” as Mueller dug deeper into his campaign’s ties to Russia and possible obstruction of that inquiry.

“All told, Mr. McGahn’s testimony gives us a fresh look at how dangerously close President Trump brought us to, in Mr. McGahn’s words, the ‘point of no return,’” the New York Democrat said.

[killowave]

[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

Yeah, I expected him to get pissy about the Muller Report not somehow getting Trump immediately impeached for some reason. Though I suppose I should be thankful he’s just linking to the same set of videos instead of doing another political comic...

There’s no point in trying to debate or explain things to Dobson, by the way. He’s already decided the president is the most evil sexist racist ect-ist to ever exist who literally kills people every single day, and if you try to say anything the contrary, no matter how polite or matter-of-fact, he’ll just declare you to be a Trump-supporting Nazi, even if you dislike Trump as well. Because that’s how his mind works: extreme black and white mentality. Either you completely agree 100% with every single thing he says, no questions asked...or you’re an evil dudebro white supremacist out to get him and everything he holds dear.

[jjayolsen]

Robert Muller Testimony

Today's Robert Muller testimony highlights a very complicated, a long-haul change in how news and all media are shared, expressed and consumed. 

Both sides don't expect more to be said that has already been divulged in the report. But with the report being 400 pages and written as a legal document, it is confusing for those who do not have experience with law documents, that style of writing and that it is too long for the average American who is working and would need more background to understand the smaller details. Immediately 3% of the US was expected to read the Muller report based on Amazon sales, but buying something off Amazon is not the same as definitely reading the report and definitely not the entire report. Separately, understanding what is written is an entirely different arena. This brings us back to the overall shift in information (both fact and fiction) and the main purpose of today's hearing-- the idea is that those who cannot or aren't interested in all the nuances of the report, be told in a form they are used to so they may understand the majority and most crucial parts of Muller's research and findings. 

Breaking the hearing up and preparing it to be recorded allows us to consume the information how we're most used to it, short clips marked to become viral. But is the official line in the sand, separating the previous time of detailed, historic and verified facts from news and stories that we won't bother with until they can be easily binged; did we cross that line long ago, and if we have crossed it--how soon until we regret it

[cybermax]

We hired the author of 'Black Hawk Down' and an illustrator from 'Archer' to adapt the Mueller report so you'll actually read it

It feels like nobody read the Mueller report. That's a shame, because it's an important document, depicting possible crimes by a sitting US president.

Read this if you have not read the mueller report. I don’t care what part of the political spectrum you fall on. READ it. Then decide for yourself.

[plsbyallmeans]

Get your shit together America.

[prof-grace-aspen]

READ: The Justice Department's Summary Of The Mueller Report

Attorney General William Barr has sent Congress a synopsis of special counsel Robert Mueller's key findings. There have been calls for him to share the full report, but Barr is not required to do so.

So, the major conclusion is that there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The 4-page summary did not note whether or not Trump himself obstructed justice.

As I accepted the results of the investigations on Hillary when so many Republicans refused to believe, so too will I now accept the results of this investigation, even though the results are obviously not what I wanted. But I’m a mature adult, so even if I don’t like the results, I’m not going to scream on FB that Trump somehow manipulated the investigation.