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💥AG Barr's letter to Congress: "Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters…I may be in a position to advise of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend” via @etuckerAP #MuellerReport
The #MuellerReport was skewed in Trump's favor from the start b/c Mueller can't indict Trump & he can't disclose non-indictable wrongdoing. Congress has taken up that broader universe of fact-finding. Notably, Trump hasn't provided a single document. Many investigations continue.
As I said from Mueller's 1st days, focusing solely on criminal conduct misses a whole host of unprecedented wrongdoing we don't even have vocabulary for let alone laws against. Trump campaign's conduct w/ Russia may not be indictable, but is wrong & threatens national security.
YES! We deserve to know all the facts surrounding the Trump campaign's embrace of Russia while Ru was attacking our democracy, and Trump's efforts to muddy the truth & discredit the investigation. The #MuellerReport is an important but narrow piece of the story. #Inners #Maddow
Even with a narrow focus on criminal conduct, Mueller has already presented a damning indictment (figuratively & literally) of Trump camp top advisers, as well as Trump himself for denying Russia attacked our election:
199 criminal counts
37 defendants
7 guilty pleas
5 sentences
An independent commission should've been created to investigate Russia's unprecedented attack on our election. But w/ all branches of govt in GOP hands, we got SC Mueller. And only after Trump's obstruction was impossible to ignore. Post-Mueller, there remain many investigations.
I don’t need the #MuellerReport to know Trump’s a corrupt, unfit & abusive president who degrades, undermines & betrays everything good America stands for. For Trump allies & propagandists, however, “victory” is just not getting indicted. That’s what GOP “winning” looks like now.
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🔥NEW: Former FBI Director @Comey asserts to @LesterHoltNBC that the principal findings of the #MuellerReport show Trump's blistering criticism of the FBI were “lies” and “his attempt to destroy the agency had failed.” nbcnews.to/2FC27on
Comey: It doesn’t make sense that Mueller would have let AG Barr make the final call on obstruction, when the entire point of an independent Special Counsel was that a political appointee NOT make that ultimate call.
.@Comey: I don’t know why Mueller didn’t subpoena the president. I have the same question about how the Attorney General could resolve obstruction, which Barr says in his letter turns on the president’s intent, w/o the president having been asked what his intent was.
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Shocker: Bill Barr—appointed AG after giving Trump a 19-page memo saying Trump didn't obstruct justice—just exonerated Trump of obstruction of justice. Mueller specifically said "this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him"
Mueller couldn't establish corrupt intent for obstruction of justice b/c Trump refused to talk w/ investigators. W/o putting Trump under oath, Barr exonerates him. Barr was put in charge of DOJ to salvage the GOP—even if it meant letting Trump get away with everything. Shameful.
.@JeffreyToobin points out the impropriety of AG Barr concluding no obstruction of justice when the whole point of appointing a special counsel was b/c Trump’s political appointees—like AG—have an inherent conflict of interest. And now we see, AG Barr is indeed Trump’s lackey.
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Paula Chertok🗽
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🔥🐜@joshscampbell: They shouldn’t be popping corks at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave today. Trump’s legal woes aren’t over. There’s still many investigators doing their work. “It’s like putting out the fire in the kitchen only to remember you have a termite problem.”🐜🐜🐜 #MuellerReport
These are just the current House investigations into the Trump administration—10 Congressional committees investigating everything from family separations to Russia sanctions. Just shocking how Republicans let Trump get away with so much incompetence, cruelty, and corruption.
Trump's constant propaganda smearing Mueller probe, even denying Russia hacked our election, makes it harder for the public to understand the whole story, get the whole truth. #MuellerReport will show Trump's orbit of criminality. Congress must piece together the entire story⬇️
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Deplorable Tigerfan
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AG Barr's letter to Congress, summarizing the Mueller Report has been released.
No Obstruction of Justice or Russian Collusion found by the President or any of his associates or any US persons. #NoCollusion

assets.bwbx.io/documents/user…
So much for any Dem arguments that the SC was not thorough in its investigation. 500 witnesses and 2,800 subpoenas and of those witnesses only two Americans were sentenced for crimes that were not process crimes, Manafort and Cohen, I believe.
SC did not find/establish any Collusion by the Trump campaign with Russians but they claim Wikileaks did get the DNC/Clinton emails through Russian operatives.
This is the evidence I want to see. What evidence if any, do they have on Assange/@wikileaks. Is this just supposition?
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Mueller report sent to attorney general, signaling his Russia investigation has ended. Our story, and I'll thread some notes... wapo.st/2HPDdES?tid=ss…
A special counsel security officer delivered the report to the Deputy Attorney General's office this afternoon. Within minutes, it was given to the AG. At about 4:35, Brian Rabbitt, AG Bill Barr's chief of staff, called Emmet Flood, a White House lawyer, to notify him.
At 5 p.m., Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd gave a letter from Barr addressed to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, telling them that Mueller had "concluded his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters."
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Lola Netty
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The bill for special counsel Mueller’s #investigation into Russian interference in the US election has totaled about $16.7 MILLION over the course of its 1st year, according to a count by Justice Dept #arewehavingfunyet time.com/5298205/robert…
The Justice Department's report on the costs incurred by special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia #investigation from May 17, 2017, through Sept. 30, 2017. documentcloud.org/documents/4490…
The Justice Department's report on the costs incurred by special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation from Oct. 1, 2017, thru March 31, 2018. documentcloud.org/documents/4490…
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(THREAD) the fbi #mueller tinyurl.com/y7vc9vta
This short description of the matter by WaPo gets it mostly right. (The investigation didn’t “include” a counterintelligence component: the counterintelligence investigation--not a component of it--is what it was all about.) 1/9
This was when Trump first became a TARGET of the national security/counterintelligence investigation, and it came AFTER Trump had fired Comey. (Comey had told Trump on several occasions BEFORE he was fired that he was not a target.) 2/9
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Rosie Memos
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Mueller's pre-trial filing gives clear picture of exactly what FARA disclosures require SO @TheJusticeDept when will Waldman be brought to court for not disclosing his communications with @MarkWarner on behalf of Deripaksa? They do not appear in any of the filings? #MuellerTime
This is a violation of Federal Law happening in front of America's face the special counsel was directed to investigate Russian interference in our election, these texts SHOW THAT @PaulManafort is being charged so....................... ?
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The precedent has been set by the almighty #SpecialCounsel all others must now be charged with same and we all know it's way more than Waldman, Podesta did the exact thing, Chalupa hasn't even registered etc. etc. etc! #EqualJustice
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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THREAD: House Intel Democrat @ericswalwell **hammers** Roger Stone and Michael Caputo👉🏼says both men “lied through their teeth” when they testified before the Intel Cmte & should be investigated for #perjury.🧐 1/

#TrumpRussia

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During the 2016 campaign, Stone met in #Florida w/a #Russian🇷🇺immigrant & sometime FBI informant Henry Greenberg who offered Clinton dirt.🤨

We’ve heard this story before from Don Jr and Kushner.🙄 2/

#TrumpRussia
Neither Stone nor Caputo mentioned the meeting when they testified last year before House Intel about their contacts w/#Russians.🤨

Both men have attributed to the fact that they had “forgotten” about it.🙄

HOW CONVENIENT. #TrumpRussia

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