Thread by @JuliusGoat

And so it begins.

https://twitter.com/juliusgoat/status/1109267638180593665

The Mueller investigation won't end with the arrest of a sitting president—never a likely scenario, though people might be forgiven for hoping for it.

Starting from the premise this is a vindication or an ending accepts an inevitable and false GOP framing. Don't. Push back.

"Not arrested" is a low barr to clear—the only one he could possibly have cleared. IF he cleared it, it's worth noting: he did it behind a curtain, and appears to have been given a boost.

And that he's been revealed as a disgrace.

Push back against any other framing.

The investigation has been nearly 2 years of damaging revelations of a presidency that has been caught lying about every detail.

He's taking a victory lap in his golf cart.

Some child in the crowd ought to point out the emperor has broken his legs kicking the judges.

And yes of course they're calling it a huge win for the president.

And yes. In a way.

The value of this result is that people who actively seek for excuses to say the president didn't do anything wrong have a shiny new excuse now.

They'd have found another. They always do.

People should talk about the conclusions drawn by the Robert Barr memo, but not without first noting that he was appointed specifically to draw that conclusion, and Barr's predecessor was fired specifically because he was unable to provide such conclusions.

This seems relevant.

We can talk about the Mueller investigation, but not without mentioning the fact that it was started because Trump fired Comey, and that he admitted he did so because of Comey's Russia investigation, and bragged to Russians the firing had ended the investigation.

Seems relevant.

Other facts: AG Sessions took a meeting with Russia and lied about it to Congress.

Trump complained about Sessions' resulting recusal from the Russia investigation, saying he wouldn't have ever appointed Sessions if he had known Sessions would recuse.

Then Trump fired Sessions.

All this really happened, by the way.

I don't know much about collusion or obstruction, but I know all that happened, and much, much more. SO much more, even leaving out all the stuff that doesn't touch upon the investigation.

Lies about the lies about the lies about the lies.

And the stuff that really happened.

Republicans want to claim him still? Fine.

Maybe the guy Trump appointed to take no action on the report will take no action on the report—and of COURSE they're going to call that a win.

But he's a disgrace.

We should make sure we remember it right, and tell it true.

To be clear: I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

If he conspired, I think it was as simple as him being approached by somebody saying "wanna do crimes?" and he did, because he's naturally predisposed to doing crimes.

He's been a crook his whole life w/o consequence, so why not?

Forget the smoke-and-mirrors game theory.

Just focus on the objectively unacceptable shit he did in broad daylight, whether because of the investigation or otherwise.

Ignore bullshit narratives that conveniently forget the stuff we all saw.

He's a disgrace. So are they all.