The Embarrassing Reason Mueller is Testifying … and What We’ll Find Out.
Pics or it never happened.
The Mueller Report says a lot of significant things. But in this day and age, black and white findings on a page just get lied about — bald-faced basic lies that reading it would immediately dispel. Did it “totally exonerate” Trump or did it “not exonerate him” of crimes?
Mueller is testifying just so what the Report already tells us can start to be the actual public narrative…. because video clips of him saying what he’s already said is the only way the findings have a half chance of breaking through.
The following is what Mueller has already said. It’s pretty clear:
“In sum, the investigation established multiple links between Trump Campaign officials and individuals tied to the Russian government. Those links included Russian offers of assistance to the Campaign. In some instances, the Campaign was receptive to the offer, while in other instances the Campaign officials shied away” but no charges of conspiracy.
Page 17: “…the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office, and to Congress, about their interactions with Russian-affiliated individuals and related matters. Those lies materially impaired the investigation.”
Page 213: “…while the OLC opinion concludes that a sitting President may not be prosecuted, it recognizes that a criminal investigation during the President’s term is permissible. The OLC opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office.”
Page 216: “On June 17, 2017, the President called McGahn at home and directed him to call the Acting AG and say that the Special Counsel had conflicts of interest and must be removed. McGahn did not carry out the direction” fearing it’d trigger “a potential Saturday Night Massacre.”
Page 219: “…the President engaged in a second phase of conduct, involving public attacks on the investigation, non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation.”
Page 290: “According to notes written by Hunt, when Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.’”
Page 300: After Trump directed McGahn to call Rosenstein and have Mueller removed, McGahn “called his lawyer, drove to the White House, packed up his office, prepared to submit a resignation letter … told Priebus that the President had asked him to ‘do crazy shit.’”
Page 335: “In Jan 2018, Manafort told Gates that he had talked to the President’s personal counsel & they were ‘going to take care of us.’ Manafort told Gates it was stupid to plead … Gates asked Manafort outright if anyone mentioned pardons & Manafort said no one used that word.”
Page 367: “In analyzing the President’s intent in his actions towards Cohen as a potential witness, there is evidence that could support the inference that the President intended to discourage Cohen from cooperating … because Cohen’s information would shed adverse light on” Trump.
Page 370: “The President’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.”
Page 382: “Under OLC’s analysis, Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the President, such as suborning perjury, intimidating witnesses, or fabricating evidence, because those prohibitions raise no separation-of-powers questions.”
“[W]e 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.”
