DOJ Initial Russia Hearings

[Mierin]

Kangaroo Court sh*t, here.

I don’t think there are centuries of democracy left in the U.S.  We’re down to decades.

 

[FrankWheeler]

“Really? Show which conviction had anything to do with Trump” 

You went from which conviction had anything to do with Trump to which conviction benefited him or his campaign.  

According to Barr's summary, the Mueller report concludes that there was Russian interference in the election and the Russians did attempt to get the Trump campaign to coordinate with them. 

There are a number of people on Trump's campaign that had contacts with these Russian's and later lied about doing so.

Agreed?

 

[QMany]

Barr's Letter is very specifically crafted. Read it very carefully.

 

[Nebfanatic]

Barr's Letter is very specifically crafted. Read it very carefully.

We need the full report plain and simple. Congress needs to bring in Mueller to testify. If there really is not much there then great but Barr is not to be trusted in the slightest. 

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

They have been investigated and completely exhonerated. 

Donald Trump's former campaign manager is going to jail for 7 years, one of several indictments of people acting on behalf of our current President. 

Weird extrapolation of the facts. 

 

[QMany]

Wow! I knew about Barr's memo with preconceived conclusions regarding Mueller's Investigation, but I didn't realize the extent he's been stumping as Trump's  defense attorney.

James Comey did the right thing (throwing the election for Donald Trump)

By William Barr

October 31, 2016

William Barr was U.S. attorney general from 1991 to 1993. He is supporting Donald Trump in the presidential election.

Trump made the right call on Comey (firing)

By William Barr

May 12, 2017

In short, responsibility for the integrity of the Russia investigation is vested in the hands of two highly regarded Obama veterans.

Trump was right to fire Sally Yates

By William Barr

February 1, 2017

On Monday, things reached their nadir when acting attorney general Sally Yates, an Obama holdover with a few days left in office, issued a directive that the Justice Department should not defend the president’s order in court. While an official is always free to resign if she does not agree with, or has doubts about, the legality of a presidential order, Yates had no authority and no conceivable justification for directing the department’s lawyers not to advocate the president’s position in court. Her action was unprecedented and must go down as a serious abuse of office.

And when the president determines an action is within his authority — even if that conclusion is debatable (which I don’t think it is here) — the president is entitled to have his position presented to the courts. It is the duty of the department to present them.

The bolded is bone-chilling. He opined that, regardless of legality, the AG's options are resign or advocate for the president's position. That is exactly what I presume he is doing here.

 

[Apathy]

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[Nebfanatic]

Lets hear from Mueller himself before we decide how misleading Schiff was. Barrs letter could be misleading as well, no? 

 

[Mierin]

What were Schiff’s lies?

 

[BigRedBuster]

@45timesbetterthanemptysuit  Questions. 

The report states that the Russuans made numerous offers to trump to help him. 

A). Why didn’t Trump report this to the appropriate officials?

B). Why did Trump cancel sanctions on Russia that Obama had put in place  immediately after taking office?

C). Why did he exhonerate Russia in Helsinki and proclaim that he believes Putin over his own intelligence community about Russia meddling?

Remember, he knew they were meddling. 

@45timesbetterthanemptysuit

 

[FrankWheeler]

What were Schiff’s lies?

That there was evidence of collusion.

 

[Mierin]

That there was evidence of collusion.

We don’t know that’s a lie, and as such the full report should come out. Here’s his quote; not that people who think Schiff should go to jail will care.

There's a difference between compelling evidence of collusion and whether the special counsel concludes that he can prove beyond a reasonable doubt the criminal charge of conspiracy

 

[knapplc]

Wow! I knew about Barr's memo with preconceived conclusions regarding Mueller's Investigation, but I didn't realize the extent he's been stumping as Trump's  defense attorney.

James Comey did the right thing (throwing the election for Donald Trump)

Trump made the right call on Comey (firing)

Trump was right to fire Sally Yates

The bolded is bone-chilling. He opined that, regardless of legality, the AG's options are resign or advocate for the president's position. That is exactly what I presume he is doing here.

$20 says Barr didn't hold those opinions when Obama was President.

 

[MNBigRedNorth]

Hep me out here, what were they convicted for? And how did that benefit Trump or his campaign?

Exactly!  Great post.  How did any of those conviction most of which were process crimes, guilty pleas (that Cohen gave for things that weren't even crimes because Mueller's team were a bunch of bullies threaten his family) and Gen. Flynn who was completely set-up by DOJ officials and was pushed to bankruptcy defending him self.  Also most of the Russian's that indictments were handed down to will never see the light of day in a court because they  live in Russia and will never step one foot in our country.  The investigation was nothing more than a road block operation to block Donald J. Trump our duly elected president from doing his job and covering up for the illegal activities of the past administration, the Clinton Campaign and the dirty work of the Clinton Foundation.  It will be interesting where all this will lead.  The Dems may cook their own goose if all the information is released, because if a complete investigation was done there should be information about how the Clinton Campaign obtained the Dossier and how the past administration used the phony information to obtain FISA Warrants. To sum it all up this was an illegal operation to unseat and legally elected president.  An act of sedition/treason against a sitting president, that is only tried in a military court.  

 

[Nebfanatic]

Exactly!  Great post.  How did any of those conviction most of which were process crimes, guilty pleas (that Cohen gave for things that weren't even crimes because Mueller's team were a bunch of bullies threaten his family) and Gen. Flynn who was completely set-up by DOJ officials and was pushed to bankruptcy defending him self.  Also most of the Russian's that indictments were handed down to will never see the light of day in a court because they  live in Russia and will never step one foot in our country.  The investigation was nothing more than a road block operation to block Donald J. Trump our duly elected president from doing his job and covering up for the illegal activities of the past administration, the Clinton Campaign and the dirty work of the Clinton Foundation.  It will be interesting where all this will lead.  The Dems may cook their own goose if all the information is released, because if a complete investigation was done there should be information about how the Clinton Campaign obtained the Dossier and how the past administration used the phony information to obtain FISA Warrants. To sum it all up this was an illegal operation to unseat and legally elected president.  An act of sedition/treason against a sitting president, that is only tried in a military court.  

Didn't the Washington Free Beacon get the ball rolling on the dossier? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/website-with-gop-ties-funded-research-on-trump-dossier

How exactly has the investigation stopped Donald Trump from doing his job?

Did Russia try to influence our elections? 

Why haven't you answered my question about Donald Trumps statements about women?