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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Trump says Mueller should not testify on Russia probe
By Lawrence Hurley and David Shepardson WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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SuperLib
I think if he speaks it would help to clear a lot of things up. Both sides will probably hear some things they don't want to hear but it should help put some of the debate to rest.
Trump has a proven history of corruption so my guess he will do everything he can to try to stop it.
PTownsend
It's doubtful Trump's read even Barr’s condensed version of the redacted Mueller report. After all, Trump’s got golf to play and investments to look after. Plus even the condensed version has words he wouldn’t understand without pictures.
But it has to be assumed some in Trump’s admin have read both the redacted version and the original documents. They must be concerned that with the exception of the minority of Americans who still believe anything Trump says the majority are able to find in the Mueller documents that Russians meddled in the Trump campaign, and also that Trump attempted to obstruct justice. Mueller would just further verify that.
Barr etal are Trump sycophants paid to protect the president. Barr has acknowledged Russians DID interfere in the elections, which Trump and Putin continue to deny. And GoTrumpers (US and ‘foreign’, e.g. Internet Research Agency employees among other ultra-rightists) parrot their leader's denials.
No wonder Trump fears Mueller’s testimony. Truth will come out if he does. And then Trump and his media PR team led by Sarah ‘slip of the tongues’ Sanders and the Trump loving global media empires will slime it.
Chip Star
Of Mueller's report completely exonerated Donny, why would he want to prevent Mueller from testifying?
Chip Star
*If
CrazyJoe
Get ready to watch Republicans, who supposedly care about laws and the country, attack this Republican who has served the country for decades, in defense of the ***** in chief for a few hours.
bass4funk
The democrats certainly don’t, if they did they would sit and think about the constituents and not continue to go down this path of nothingness. I will still remember back in 1998 when Nadler wanted to do everything possible to make sure that the Starr report didn’t see the light of day and now all the sudden this is the man who seeks justice for all, what a joke these people are. Keep digging roll ready close to six months of the new year and the Democrats still didn’t bring anything to the table as far as policy is concerned. Keep digging that grave. I love it.
Which actually means nothing because as AG Barr said both men have different opinions, now you can believe Mueller or you can believe Barr but both men have some of the highest integrity. The difference is, one man wants to take down the President....well, tried to and the other man sees foul play. I’m in the camp of the second and believe the first. It Democrats keep taking shots and they keep missing.
Wolfpack
I really want to see Mueller testify so his bias can be exposed. He hired prosecutors who actually worked with and for the Clintons. Many contributed to her campaign against Trump
. I want to know when Mueller determined there was no provable collusion? His goal seemed to be to continue the investigation to interfere with Trumps term in office and hopefully goad him into a provable obstruction charge. I also want to know why Mueller never investigated Hillary and the DNC’s funneling of campaign money to Russian intelligence for disinformation that was used to justify, at least in part, the Obama administrations surveillance of an opposition political campaign? Mueller says he was investigating Russian interference in the election but ignored anything that was not focused on Trump. Why didn’t Mueller investigate the evidence that senior members of the FBI and Obama intelligence officials were motivated to oppose Trumps election and undermine him once he took office? Lots of questions still to be answered.
Come Mueller - testify.
Chip Star
This is completely irrelevant to republicans/conservatives attacking the institutions that underpin our democratic republic.
Lmao! You are now claiming that Mueller is of the highest integrity after having derided him for two years as a corrupt, bias lapdog if the democrats. Talk about a screeching 180.
Chip Star
Let's all hold our breath as we take a very deep dive into right wing conspiracy theories.
PTownsend
On that I agree. Hopefully Trump's admin will begin to become transparent and allow investigations into Russian meddling - at any time, including the present - to continue.
When both Trump and Putin deny Russian involvement, it's pretty hard for anyone other than those pushing their respective far right beliefs and other fanatic nationalists to trust a word they say. From Masha Gessen:
stormcrow
Mueller was an Eagle Scout, a war hero, the former director of the FBI for many years and a staunch Republican.
What is Trump so afraid of?
The truth shall set you free! Bring Mueller in for a little Q & A session. We need to get to the bottom of what the Russians did in cahoots with the Trump campaign.
"Why should Russia have all the fun? And since Russia is clearly backing Republicans, why don't we ask China to back us? China, if you're listening, why don't you get Trump's tax returns? I'm sure our media would richly reward you. So, hey, let's have a great power contest and let's get the Chinese in on the side of somebody else. Just saying that shows how absurd the situation we find ourselves in."
Hillary Clinton on the Rachel Maddow Show
How true indeed!
Wolfpack
If government institutions and the press are corrupt they should be held to account. Certainly the Left believed that in the 1960s when FBI was spying on anti-war and civil rights groups.
President Obama attacked the press by name, okay Fox News, just as Trump is doing today with the other side. Obama even spied on reporter James Rosen. Hardly a peep out of the Left when it was their guy undermining ‘our democratic republic ‘.
Meanwhile unemployment hasn’t been this low since Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon. Minority and female unemployment are at historic lows. The Lefts Nobel Prize winning economists predicted that Trump would destroy the economy. The opposite has happened. Even Thomas Friedman has now come to agree with the need for a high wall with a big door at the border.
Trump is his own worst enemy in many ways but based on what we know now the results are undeniably good for the country.
Wolfpack
There are a lot of establishment Republicans that are anti-Trumpers like Mueller. Mitt Romney, George Will, Bill Kristol, etc. Party affiliations mean nothing when an outsider disrupts the insiders game. In fact, Mueller hired a Who’s Who of Leftist connected prosecutors to go after Trump. As for Mueller being an Eagle Scout and a former soldier - Benedict Arnold was considered a war hero before he gave the British details of George Washington’s whereabouts and the defenses to protect him at West Point. Mueller is one of those misguided patriots who seems to believe that in order to save the country he must destroy the Constitution. Trump is a clown but that’s no excuse for helping to execute a coup.
bass4funk
Let’s not hold on breath on the liberal attempts to block transparency as in their words, allow the facts to speak for themselves and let the people decide ultimately.
No, it’s very, very relevant, liberals wanting to subvert the entire political process to hide their dirt and lies. Oh, it’s very relevant, let’s see what Barr can find. Let’s see if the Democrats are the Saints THEY CLAIM to be.
No, I never said nor do I believe it, but liberals and the Dems did until he found out what we all already knew, but now since he didn’t bring the goods on Trump they didn’t have a plan B and their feeble ans feverish attempts to make Trump seem like he’s knee deep in obstruction is not only another failed attempt, but pathetically laughable.
SuperLib
Barr and Mueller have different opinions? What's the difference?
bass4funk
Can't wait to see who Barr will have in the hot seat on the Democrats side, if they have nothing to hide, they wouldn’t need to attack someone with an even higher integrity and more experienced person with the most impeccable resume of any lawyer.
19 Trump hating Democrats and 40 FBI lawyers said there wasn’t, so with that much hatred and venom invested in trying to get this man. I believe them.
SuperLib
How do you know 19 of the hated Trump? Did you do a survey?
SuperLib
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PTownsend
Are you talking about Barr? If so, only those favoring a far right, big-state led by an authoritarian leader would say that.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/william-barr-has-long-history-abusing-civil-rights-and-liberties-name
Serrano
Trump has a proven history of corruption
Compared to HRC, Trump is as pure as the driven snow.
Rats nest has been kicked open and all the vermin are running around trying to scurry back into the dark. Clean 'em all out. Gut the FBI and rebuild. Same with the CIA.
bass4funk
Not one of them were Republicans or donated to Republicans, 14 donated to Hillary campaigns and charities, so if you do the math, I would say it’s safe to say, they weren’t fans of this President.
And that seems exactly what the Democrats are trying to do now with the Republican Party. They want convicted felons to vote, bring the voting age down to 16, get rid of the EC. allow illegals to vote.....hmmmm...seems very suspicious to me, but I get it, they can’t win on the merits so let’s pack the courts as well and let’s get rid of the filibuster while we’re at it.
Tell that to Bernie, AOC, Omar and the rest of the Socialists, not me.
I thought that’s the socialists plan.
bass4funk
Stop watching CNN for once and don’t give me the ACLU, the only liberal organization that takes up causes for liberals only! Give me a break!
lincolnman
Let's see, today is Monday so for Trumpers its "Mueller completely exonerated Trump"...
Of course last week it was "he's a traitor with 16 (or 19 - they use them interchangeably) angry Democrats"..
Tomorrow its "Mueller is honorable and his investigation is done, its a closed subject"...
Day after tomorrow; "he's a commie pinko who staged a coup"...
More flip flips every 24 hours than at a Waffle House...
Snow driven from outside the Kremlin...
PTownsend
Liberals only? The ACLU defended American Nazi's rights to march in Skokie, Illinois. The ACLU since its inception has defended the Constitutional rights of individuals and civil rights for all - from Nazis to Communists and all in between. Unless you're once again defining 'liberal' as someone who doesn't agree with you.
The only people I can see opposing what the ACLU does is those who want big state led by an authoritarian figure, like so many Trump supporters continue to plead for.
https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2028&context=californialawreview
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3589&context=lcp
Serrano
Snow driven from outside the Kremlin...
The denial continues!
Pssst, lincoln - Mueller time is over, now it's Barrbecue time! Get the popcorn ready!
Chip Star
The comedy continuesxfrom the right! Hilarious.
bass4funk
Pretty much, no prison time, it’s over, now time to concentrate on 2020, let the Democrats and Nadler chase more rabbits down holes and completely lose it to the GOP AGAIN.
No, many of us still think Mueller is a slithering snake, but he tried his best with his angry Democrat posse and corrupt band of cops and nothing came out of it.
Chip Star
Bass: No response on the screeching 180 you've done regarding Mueller having integrity?
PTownsend
Another example of the unreasoned fear of far right extremists. Scary so many have private arsenals. Given there are 330+million Americans it's always possible there might be others who imagine the same delusion.
PTownsend
In the minds of the minority of Americans who want to undermine US systems and establish Trump as diktator. The majority disagree.
http://fortune.com/2019/02/12/american-confidence-mueller-over-trump-poll/
bass4funk
Come again?? You have Bernie Sanders, the man that embraces socialism, took his honeymoon in the former Soviet Union, wants to give people FREE stuff, wants to allow convicted criminals to vote, wants to abolish the private healthcare industry, to hell with the majority of Americans that love ans want to keep it. Thinks infanticide is not a problem, you have Omar slandering our closest ally in the Mideast, is openly anti-Semitic and you have AOC saying whatever comes to her head about changing the entire social and political makeup of the US, the woman killed over 150,000 jobs singlehandedly in her home state and the conservatives are the extremists? Wow! ROFL!
And every powerful liberal has and hires people that keep these arsenals.
OZ Ninja
That would be August 2017, they stretched it past the midterms to benefit the Democrats.
Yep let Mueller testify and explain why he was so ambivalent in his report, with the obstruction charge, yes Trump probably did want to fire him but after he cooled down he didn't follow it up so no charge could be laid.
Chip Star
You can find the evidence for this wild conspiracy theory here and here .
OZ Ninja
They knew in 2017 there was no collusion, plenty of articles just look em up, seriously, once Strzok, Page, Mcabe and around 8 other FBI agents were found to exhibit extreme bias the probe should have been terminated.
Strzok was the lead investigator who cleared Hillary and the next day texted how they were going to impeach Trump and they had an insurance policy, doesn't that ring any alarm bells with you? They even fired 11 CNN reporters for faking news articles, I thought everyone was entitled to a fair go where justice is concerned.
bass4funk
Like the Russian collusion delusion conspiracy debunked.
OZ Ninja
I finished reading the report a few days ago, ether in the wind, clutching at straws comes to mind, sure Trump was angry at the length of the probe who wouldn't be but he never followed up on his threats thats the important part.
Serrano
Trump was angry at the length of the probe
Trump was probed more than someone abducted by aliens.
Blacklabel
It’s not like mueller can testify anything different than what his report says.
its just bait for Dems to run around screaming Trump won’t let him testify! Up until 5 mins before Trump....lets him testify.
Blacklabel
This testimony will end badly for Dems, I can’t believe they are taking the bait.
Serrano
What is Trump so afraid of?
Ya'll keep forgetting - Trump is the world's greatest troll. He's trolling the Democrats by pretending to oppose Mueller's testimony.
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
If it'll end so badly for Democrats, why wouldn't Donny want him to testify.
Trumpies are full of it. Like usual.
Blacklabel
Trump DOES want him to testify. he is just baiting Dems to run around for the next two weeks making fools of themselves saying he doesnt. He already got Pelosi with it, who now claims Trump "obstructs" every day.
By tomorrow Dems and their liberals news masters will be saying this is the "bombshell" proof that Trump obstructed justice, because he is obstructing the closed Mueller investigation by not letting Mueller testify about what anyone with internet can read for themselves.
Blacklabel
this isnt even about Trump, its about liberals and Dems trying to get rid of Barr because you know whats coming next.
Mueller is done, Rosenstein is gone, all the Comey cabal has quit or been fired, no more Clapper and Brennan except on fake news TV shows. No one left to protect the Obama administration and its lackeys from overdue justice.
bass4funk
Easy answer, that’s Trump’s personal cabinet staff, why would he or ANY other President allow that? Especially someone with a high security clearance, that would be stupid for a multitude of reasons, no President would or should allow it.
For not giving in to breaking the law? Sounds like a compliment to me.
bass4funk
But if Mueller cannot find any evidence of a crime he cannot unequivocally say as AG Barr said, you have a binary reaction it’s yes a crime was committed or no it was not, that’s it. If not, then that means the evidence was flimsy at best, because that means there is no way on gods green earth that you could ever get a conviction, which means again the overwhelming evidence is there is no crime that is prosecutable.
Blacklabel
Liberals are funny. They think Mueller will testify something different from what is in the MUELLER report.
Then it will be that someone on Mueller’s team disagrees with Mueller’s representation of his own report. then Dems will want that guy to testify too.
Braze
Perhaps it is a good idea to actually have Mueller testify before Congress, it should be highly interesting.
None of those charges people say Trump did are posted, and none are directly related to whether Trump's campaign worked with Russia, and it must be remembered that was what the investigation was all about, everything else is secondary, we have no examples of laws broken, so in that respect it was a waste of tax payer money just like the so called investigation of Hillary. Obviously the US cannot continue having the State investigate one of its own members, because when that happens no big fish are ever caught. All it proves in the end is that there is a 2 tiered Just Us system. I will say no US laws have been printed that Trump has broken, where as in Hillary’s case there are numerous laws posted that she did break by having her personal server and in the performance of using it, it’s only the fact that she was not prosecuted on those posted charges. Have yet to see any laws sited on Trump’s breaking of any law, that’s not saying anything good about his being POTUS, as personally Trump is just another hypocritical Statist and War monger as far as I am concerned. However Trump is obviously under attack, it can be seen clearly by going through how this so called investigation came about.
Barr lied about giving proper context on a report that Mueller himself said was accurate and not misleading while releasing it to the public in full. Sounds legit.
Simon Foston
BlacklabelMay 6 05:57 pm JST
Funny's better than sanctimonious, disingenuous and boring.
SuperLib
Trump was investigated by a Republican and then cleared by two other Republicans.
You trust them even knowing they are Republicans. Sorry, angry Republicans? Republicans who hate Clinton?
smithinjapan
Of course he said that -- he's a would-be dictator. Now that it's becoming reality Mueller will testify Trump's "I want him to testify" obvious lie is coming home to roost, and he doesn't like it despite being a chicken.
bass4funk
If he were a dictator, a real one, CNN wouldn’t be on TV now and the NYT would be turned into condominiums.
Well, no. It all depends on who you believe, you may choose to believe in Mueller, I choose to believe in Barr.
Chip Star
Mueller is not a member of Don's cabinet.
The OP referred to a would-be dictator, which means this response has zero relevance.
No, it does not. It is about Donny doing a 180 (and you following suit); it's not about whether you believe Mueller or Barr. Both of whom, in your words, "are of the highest integrity."
bass4funk
I wasn’t talking a out Mueller.
Relevant which means, it’s going to go nowhere.....again....
Remember, don’t cherry pick now, I also said, I believe Mueller to be corrupt and part of the establishment that wants to take down the President at all cost.
bass4funk
Apple News? Really? While you’re on it, what did Buzzfeed say?
bass4funk
I dismiss them entirely and no, they don’t have a wide range of conservative news out there, but it’s Apple, love the company, but hey.....
bass4funk
Not at all.
I don’t read those so much, but as I said, Apple can cherry pick whatever they want, good on them. I don’t need them to cherry pick for me, but I love their hardware.
bass4funk
I always am and it doesn’t serve my purpose, not for me and not what I want.
Chip Star
Today 11:38 am JST
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Lmao! You are now claiming that Mueller is of the highest integrity after having derided him for two years as a corrupt, bias lapdog if the democrats. Talk about a screeching 180.
Okay. Let's see what reality has to say about this claim:
https://japantoday.com/member/bass4funk?page=200
Ibid.
Wolfpack
OK so where are the records of Bill Clinton meeting AG Lynch on her government plane right before the FBI director went on television, listed all of her offenses and then promptly did a 180 and exonerated her? Come on - stop reaching and look at the facts dispassionately. Trump did not collude or otherwise cooperate with the Russians to win the election. That's fact. That was what the investigation was all about. The obstruction of justice bs is a crock. At least when Nixon was impeached there was a crime that he was trying to cover up. Trump could not cover up a crime that did not happen. Time to Move On.