(03-24-2019 10:33 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Five results of Mueller-rama:

1) Mueller did not indict Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, or other people whose purported legal jeopardy was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

Thus, Mueller found no criminality arising from that famous meeting Trump Jr. and Kushner had with the Russian lawyer.

2) Mueller did not charge anyone in the Trump campaign or circle with conspiring with Russia to fix the 2016 election, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

Thus, Mueller found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia that gives rise to a criminal offense meriting prosecution.

If the Democrats nonetheless continue their quest to find collusion, they will seem to most observers to be grasping straws.

3) Mueller did not subpoena the president, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

4) Trump did not fire Mueller, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

5) Trump did not interfere with the Mueller investigation, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year. In his letter to Congress, Barr noted the requirement that he notify lawmakers if top Justice Department officials ever interfered with the Mueller investigation. “There were no such instances,” Barr wrote.

What do 1-5 tell you about 'intense media speculation'?

The mainstream media, it seems, was consistently off-base in its coverage of the Mueller investigation. A combination of hysteria and wishful thinking ensured that it would be.

(list and contents paraphrased and/or taken from another source).

Yay. We should be proud.

Kind of makes the rabid salivating by James Brennan stand out as a pretty partisan action. From his position of service at the top of the Obama administration, Brennan was of course a key participant in the peddling of alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Yay. We should be proud.

I could be wrong but I kind of feel that if #1 thru #5 were all correct, then Trump would have inundated us with victory tweets by now. I think it's very possible that 3 thru 5 are possible but #1 and 2 may not be true. All along, I've been pretty constant in my opinion that I think about as much of this report, as any thoughts of trying to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her dealings as Secretary of State. And I don't think we should necessarily go after Trump's children, or Trump himself (Mueller sounds like he wants the New York Attorney General's office to do the dirty work now). I feel like all of this is anti-productive for the country.

But I also feel that if the Mueller Report had nothing, Trump would not be silent about it.