The President isn't fucked.... It's all the rest of us that are fucked!

Some of Barr's linguistic acrobatics are just shameless. "Under applicable law, publication of these types of materials would not be criminal unless the publisher also participated in the underlying hacking conspiracy."

So taking stolen emails from a foreign government and publishing them is not criminal unless you hacked them yourself. Ok.

"Here too, the Special Counsel’s report did not find that any person associated with the Trump campaign illegally participated in the dissemination of the materials."

Notice how "here too" weasely suggests that not only is this allegation actually squeaky clean, but all others before were too. Then he uses the word "illegal" in "illegally participated in the dissemination of the materials," when the clear implication is that indeed they did take emails from a foreign government for the express purpose of using them against their political enemies...BUT that's ok and not illegal.

It is almost as egregious as Whitaker's testimony when he said no promises were asked for and no promises were kept, as if that answers any question at all. As if Trump couldn't have said, "Hey, it sure would be great if there were some adults in the room down at the SDNY," and he couldn't have responded, "Oh yeah!" No promises asked for, none kept.

What a bunch of slimeballs. When the hell does the time line snap back to its original shape? This is the worst, longest episode of "The Twilight Zone" ever.

“The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.” . . . if that is not evidence that he tried to collude (but proves he is in fact a moron) . . how much more do you need?

Dan Rather
What we knew... was damning.
What we're learning... is damning.
What may may learn in the future... could be more damning still.

Just reading where Richard Burr One of the gang of eight did thisn March 9, 2017, Comey briefed the “Gang of Eight” congressional leaders about the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference, including an identification of the principal U.S. subjects of the investigation. Although it is unclear whether the President knew of that briefing at the time, notes taken by Annie Donaldson, then McGahn’s chief of staff, on March 12, 2017, state, “POTUS in panic/chaos … Need binders to put in front of POTUS. (1) All things related to Russia.” The week after Comey’s briefing, the White House Counsel’s Office was in contact with SSCI Chairman Senator Richard Burr about the Russia investigations and appears to have received information about the status of the FBI investigation. And this:In a footnote, the report says that the “White House Counsel’s Office was briefed by Senator Burr on the existence of ‘4-5 targets.'” From notes taken by Donaldson, those targets were Flynn (“DOJ looking for phone records&rdquo, Comey, Manafort, Carter Page, and “‘Greek Guy’ (potentially referring to George Papadopoulos, later charged with violating 18 USC 1000 for lying to the FBI).”

Those were indeed the five Trump campaign and administration targets whose actions would become a cornerstone into the investigation into collusion between Russian government efforts to undermine the U.S. election and potential Trump campaign connections to those acts.

That seems to be a shocking new development: Only months after Trump’s inauguration, Sen. Richard Burr used his position as Gang of Eight member to inform the Trump White House of just which members of Trump’s own inner circle were the identified “targets” of the FBI’s Russia investigation—just as that criminal and counterintelligence investigation was getting off the ground.

The repub party WILL DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to protect this fucking orange anus. If we do not vote as many of them out of our Government in 2020, we will lose any ability to hold any of them accountable.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

“You don’t need to have been convicted of a crime. Impeachment isn’t about punishment. It’s about cleansing the office.”

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Sen. Graham himself established a standard that demands Trump’s impeachment.
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