"The Russian contacts consisted of business connections, offers of assistance to the campaign, invitations for candidate Trump and Putin to meet in person, invitations for campaign officials and representatives of the Russian government to meet, and policy positions seeking improved US-Russian relations," Mueller wrote in the report.
"Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in the election interference activities," the report said.
Mueller specifically said Trump's presidential campaign "showed interest" in WikiLeaks' releases of emails that the Russians stole from the Democrats to hurt his opponent Hillary Clinton.
With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has the authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice."
Barr noted earlier Thursday that "publication of these types of materials would not be criminal unless the publisher also participated in the underlying hacking conspiracy."
"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. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Here comes LG the new attorney general. He is going to use his totally UNBIASED opinion to investigate this matter for us.According to you guys they could not have been brought other than by the House impeaching him, which is still on the table.
Let's see the full report and decide if he did, or did not, obstruct and whether he should, or should not be, impeached.
And now the facts, not the spin, are slowly emerging.....
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I caught this line from Barr as well and mentioned it in this thread:
That is Barr trying to sanitize what Trump did !!
Jerrold Nadler summoned Robert Mueller to testify in front of the House Judiciary committeeThe Democrats are going to destroy Robert Mueller for not saying what they wanted him to say
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Here we have another day of Democrat outrage that a POTUS did not commit a crime or cooperate with a hostile foreign power...what a dang world.
there is a world of difference between "efforts to interfere" and "hacked the election".Its interesting that Barr confirmed Russian efforts to interfere in our election, and specifically that they were the ones who hacked Clinton and DNC servers, then gave it to Wilkileaks.
"I looooooove Wikileaks."
Oh, and will Trump FINALLY admit that the Russians hacked the election? You know, not buy into Vlad's denials.
there is a world of difference between "efforts to interfere" and "hacked the election".
its such an extreme difference its laughable you act like they are similar
Blue font or did you mean to say Trump will be reelected if Dems go for impeachment?
Everything keeps the same time stamp and the posts are integrated into chronological order@GAVol does the merge put the new posts in chronological order with the old posts when merged? or do the "new" merged posts stay all lumped up at whatever time they were brought in?
And now the facts, not the spin, are slowly emerging.....
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I caught this line from Barr as well and mentioned it in this thread:
That is Barr trying to sanitize what Trump did !!
No need, You haven't gotten anything right so far. Just stay gone Stew and enjoy your Easter and celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.I think Barr did a disservice to Trump with the preempting. Trump's political death is in the details. Successful impeachment would not be realistic, but more than enough daggers to ensure he won't be reelected. IMHO
Busy day, I'll get back to ya later, if by chance you disagree.