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Originally Posted by TheHip41
The argument is pretty simple and it doesn’t involve calling you out for carrying water for a rapist
Barr read the report. The report said there was collusion but it didn’t meet the threshold of criminal charges AND the report makes no recommendation on the subject of obstruction of justice
Barr then writes a memo tbat says no collusion and no obstruction
If that was enough he gives a live press conference and is defending the president, while acting as the AG on the nation.
Your characterization is reasonable from your point of view as a Trump "antagonist". Barr's position is reasonable from the point of view of the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the land.
Barr didn't interfere with Mueller and let him do what he wanted. Mueller's mandate was to examine tampering by foreign nationals with the 2016 election and if any of it was actionable legally.
Mueller found:
“[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” the report said, while also saying there were "links" between the two.
“While the investigation identified numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign, the evidence was not sufficient to support criminal charges. Among other things, the evidence was not sufficient to charge any Campaign official as an unregistered agent of the Russian government or other Russian principal,” the special counsel report stated.
That is pretty straight forward. I know Rachel Maddow and Clap(per) and Adam Shiftless led you on for two years to engage in Onanism over the impending doom of Orangeman..... but the evidence just wasn't there no matter how many tax evaders were put in solitary confinement and how many proctological exams were done. Sorry.
Prosecutors indict when they find what they believe is a reasonable case and Mr. Mueller chose not to take any action to ANY American on the subject of colluding with the Russians. Period.
The Justice Department isn't in the business of finding people innocent.... that's not how the system works.
As to obstruction, I don't believe that was part of Mueller's mandate but he saw fit to write a nice political document. Great. Adam Shiftless and Jerrold (Jabba the Hutt) Nadler, et all can do what they please with that and I hope they take the ball and run like hell with it.
However the US Attorney General and case law (as pointed out by Dershowitz) argue a sitting President while operating under his Constitutional authority can hire and fire whoever he pleases whenever he pleases. There was no underlying crime firing Comey or screaming from the rafters at Mueller,so no obstruction.... sorry.
Now the house may bend and bastardize the Impeachment Clause any way the care to:
. “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”.
I hope to God they do......