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'WTF'- MuellerInvestigationFindsNo Trump Campaign Conspiracy With Russia
Attorney General Releases 4-Page
While we all know Robert Mueller is a Republican, but how can all the people in the Trump administration who are doing prison time and the reports says the President didn't have anything to do with the Russians. This is BAD, Mr. Mueller. He needs to be investigated. Mueller needs to be called before Congress to explain how he came to that conclu- sion.
After taking the weekend to pore over the Mueller re- port, Attorney General William Barr has sent Congress his summary of the "principal conclusions" from the special counsel's 675-day investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
The bottom line:
• "The investigation did not
Letter Summary of Mueller Report, Dems Say 'This Is Just the Beginning'
establish that members of the Trump campaign con- spired or coordinated with the Russian government in
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its election interference ac- tivities."
• On the question of ob- struction of justice, Barr writes that while Mueller's report "does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not ex- onerate him."
Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The four-page memo quoted Mueller saying the investigation “did not es- tablish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government,” but Barr reached his own conclusions with regard to whether Trump obstructed justice, writing that there was no evidence support- ing that claim.
Now, a four-page letter may have been good enough for Aaliyah, but Democrats are contesting Barr’s conclusions, demanding Mueller’s full re- port be released.
Among them are Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth War- ren.
“I don’t want a summary of the Mueller report,” Sanders tweeted on Sunday. “I want the whole d*^n report.”
Harris echoed the senti- ment, calling for the “underly- ing investigative materials” to be handed over to Congress and for Barr to testify.
Democratic Congressional leadership was unified in their response to the memo, with House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler demanding
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Barr testify to explain his con- clusion—which Nadler called a “hasty, partisan interpretation of the facts.”
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who sits on the House Over- sight and Financial committees, released a statement promising congressional Democrats will continue to hold the White House accountable.
“What we have seen today does not exonerate the occu- pant of the White House from obstruction of justice nor abuse of power,” the Massachusetts congresswoman wrote.
According to Barr’s sum- mary, Mueller’s report “does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him” on the issue of obstruction. While there was no definitive conclusion, Mueller’s report “marshaled evidence on both sides,” ac- cording to the New York Times.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that the evidence "is not suf- ficient to establish that the President committed an ob- struction-of-justice offense," noting that the government would have to prove such a case "beyond a reasonable doubt."
• Barr says he and
Dems Warn Of Subpoena If Mueller Report
And Evidence Not Turned Over To Congress
House Democrats, anxious about how President Don- ald Trump's Justice Depart- ment will handle the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, are de- manding the full report and underlying evidence be pub- licly released and are warning they may use their subpoena power to get the information.
On a conference call with members Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she would reject a classi- fied briefing for the congres- sional intelligence leaders known as the "gang of eight" to convey information about Mueller's report, arguing that lawmakers must be free to discuss it publicly, according to a person on the call.
A day after the Justice De- partment announced that Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General William Barr, Democratic leaders cir- culated talking points to their members arguing that "the White House must not be al- lowed to interfere with the re- port's release."
The talking points include details about why they believe there's precedent supporting the release of a report, point- ing to the hiring of a special counsel in 1999 to investigate the 1993 incident in Waco, Texas. They also point to
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Robert Mueller.
U. S. Rep. Maxine Wa- ters, the California Democrat who has been one of the presi- dent’s most unapologetic crit- ics, said on the Sunday morning political talk show, AM Joy, that even though the much anticipated report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is alleged to call for no indictments, she has no plans to lay off Donald Trump.
As word of Water’s prom- ise circulated via social media, the New York Daily News re- ported that U. S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, confirmed that Mueller’s team found no evi- dence of collusion between Trump and Russia during his 2016 campaign.
Earlier, Waters told MSNBC host Joy Reid of AM Joy that whatever the results of the report, her stance would not change.
“I want to tell you that this president has a way of trying to get into people’s heads and in- doctrinate them,” Waters said.
“He’s been saying ‘no collu- sion, no collusion, no collusion’
precedent involving the Justice Department providing 880,000 pages of internal ma- terial last year to the House as part of the GOP probe into the FBI's Hillary Clinton inves- tigation -- as well as the de- partment providing records to the Hill over the Watergate probe.
"If necessary, Democrats would be prepared to use its subpoena authority to obtain the full report and underlying evidence as well as to obtain briefing and testimony from the Special Counsel, the Attor- ney General, Deputy Attorney General and other necessary officials," the talking points said.
On the call, Democrats ar- gued that the public will is overwhelmingly on their side for full transparency, pointing to public opinion polls to make their case.
"Right now, we are in the mode (of) wanting to know the
truth, wanting the facts so that our chairpersons and mem- bers of the committees can take a look into this going for- ward," said Pelosi, according to the person on the call.
Six committee chairmen who are all running congres- sional investigations into the Trump administration, White House and Trump's busi- nesses, all spoke briefly on the call, according to the source, along with House Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries.
The Democratic chairmen reiterated their argument that releasing both the report and underlying evidence had precedent, pointing to the Jus- tice Department providing Congress with investigative documents as part of Republi- can-led probes in the last Con- gress.
The call lasted roughly 35 minutes and more than 120 lawmakers participated, the person said.
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over and over again for a long time now and he’s going to try and conclude that this report is proving that there’s no collu- sion and you have a lot of his sycophants who will take the nod from him and they’ll say the same thing, but we cannot allow them to get away with this,” Waters continued. “He does this all the time. This is not the end of anything.”
Waters, who chairs the House Financial Services Com- mittee, added, “It’s the end of the report and the investiga- tion by Mueller but those of us who chair these committees have a responsibility to con- tinue with our oversight.”
She said, “It’s not the end of everything.”
Will Not Lay Off Trump
Despite Mueller Report
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