Joe
Biden recently stood before an audience in Germany and blatantly criticized the
President of the United States. Joe
Biden is an ex-Senator, ex-Vice-President who has previously run for President
3 times (‘84. ‘88, ’08) and is a likely 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate. He has absolutely no business standing on
foreign soil in today’s mixed up world and sowing confusion among foreign
leaders about who the legitimate leader of America is and what is America’s
policy. Biden’s claim to fame is that
among the 20 plus potential Democratic candidates for president, he appears to be the most moderate. Whhhaaaat?? That’s
like being the sharpest knife in a drawer full of dull blades. To me, the definition of a moderate is one
who will compromise on practice but adhere to a rigid set of clearly defined
principles. History has shown us,
repeatedly, that Joe Biden has no principles.
He is a shallow, rudderless, old school politician that is frantically
grasping for one last moment of glory.
Nancy
Pelosi recently addressed audiences in England and openly disagreed with a
trade policy that had been publicly supported by the President of the United
States. President Trump defeated Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 election that was held nationwide
across our country. Every eligible voter in America had the opportunity to participate
in that election. Nancy Pelosi was
elected by a portion of a single county in California and is one
of 435 Representatives in the
House. If you are not a resident of that
portion of San Francisco City and County
in California identified as District 12, you can’t even vote for Nancy
Pelosi. She bizarrely considers her
position as House Majority Leader to be co-equal to the Presidency. This deluded attitude has emboldened House
Democrats to openly and stubbornly resist every single Trump initiative since the
mid-term elections. Nancy Pelosi is
living in a fantasy land of pure spite and partisanship and should not be
openly contradicting our President’s policies on foreign soil. Nancy Pelosi is much better suited to be mayor
of San Francisco rather than the House Majority Leader.
Now…to
the Mueller Report. As with many who
bloviate about such things, I would like to think that this will be my final
remarks about Robert and his Merry Band of Democrat Lawyers. Time will tell. Mueller’s Report is basically split in two
parts; the first part dealing with the issue of collusion between the Trump
Campaign and Russia and the second part dealing with possible obstruction of
justice regarding the investigation into the first part. The fundamental question that occurs to any
rational being is how can there be possible obstruction in the second part when
the first part clearly states that
there was no collusion? Tell me once
again…What exactly are we obstructing
here? The President could, and did not, fire Mueller. The President could, and did not, utilize Executive Privilege to shield information from
Mueller. The President could, and did not, refuse to accommodate all
of Mueller’s requests for documents and interviews. Heck…the President even allowed his White
House Counsel Don McGahn to be interviewed.
The only time the President dug his heels in is when he refused to sit
for an interview himself; instead submitting written answers to questions
received from Mueller. And, as Mueller
himself stated in the Report, the Trump interview was unnecessary because he
already had all of the information he needed to close the matter. Now ask yourself: Does any of that sound like obstruction to you?
Part
one of the Report repeatedly makes it crystal clear that even though Russia
attempted to meddle in American elections; they did so without the complicit
cooperation of any American, much
less one associated with the Trump Campaign.
Like every other sentient human being on planet earth, the Russians had
absolutely no doubt that Trump would lose
the election to Hillary Clinton. They were
just trying to stir up ish; that is what they do. Consider that their meddling also featured
some anti-Trump and anti-Sanders initiatives.
Part
two reads like an op-ed out of the New York Times or Washington Post…or perhaps
a panel discussion from CNN or MSNBC. It
seems to me abundantly clear that Mueller allowed his partisan band of Democrat
lawyers to author part two and it is a disgrace to any person who holds any
respect for the rule of law and fairness of self-defense. It reads like a tabloid piece on juicy,
one-sided details from inside a President’s inner circle which should properly
be considered privileged and private.
That is not even considering the fact that the Report is presented with
no provision for a defense or alternative version from those accused in the Report. Let’s impanel a dozen heavyweight lawyers
that vehemently disagree with you and your political ideals. Let’s give them $25-$30 million to operate
on. Let’s give them complete freedom
with no oversight and no accountability.
Let’s give them the services of the U.S. intelligence agencies and allow
them to wiretap your friends and business associates…present and past. And let’s give them two years to dwell on
this exercise. You gonna come out of this without a blemish? You think you might have an embarrassing
moment or two in the report? You think
Trump had a legitimate reason to be
frustrated and angry that he had to deal with this bogus investigation for the
first two years of his Presidency? Read
this again … http://centerlineright.blogspot.com/2018/07/
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Can there be any doubt that the Mueller Report Part Two is nothing more than a sop to the House Democrats to be used as fodder for their continuing investigations into all things Trump? Robert Mueller started this sad episode as a WDC fixture that apparently had some gravitas on both sides of the political aisle. Immediately prior to becoming Special Counsel, President Trump had interviewed him for the position of FBI Chief. He has now been exposed as a tool of the partisan lawyers on his team and will serve out the balance of his public career with this monstrous stain on his record. If Democrats want to make their 2020 Presidential Campaign centerpiece the impeachment of Donald Trump for this hot mess, I believe they are making a serious mistake.
To
close out this sad, pathetic, embarrassing chapter in American politics, let us
consider three items.
What,
exactly, was the origin of the
Mueller Report? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-primordial-ooze-of-the-collusion-conspiracy/
What,
exactly, does the Mueller Report say?
https://www.scribd.com/document/406725805/Mueller-Report#from_embed
What,
exactly, did the Mueller Report involve
and cost?
Time: 22 months (or 675 days). The Justice Department appointed Mueller on May 17, 2017. The investigation ended on March 22, 2019.
Length: 448 (redacted) pages
Indictments: Mueller ultimately indicted, convicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies.
Team: Mueller employed 19 lawyers, who were assisted by a team of about 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants and other professional staff.
The investigation: The Mueller team issued more than 2,800 subpoenas and executed close to 500 search warrants. The team also obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers to monitor electronic communications, and made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence. The special counsel interviewed approximately 500 witnesses, according to a letter sent to Congress by Barr.
Cost: The total cost of the investigation is still unknown. But so far, Mueller’s office has released three expenditures statements. Direct and indirect costs totaled $25.2 million through Sept. 30, 2018, from the start of the investigation (May 17, 2017). Although Mueller turned in a proposed budget to the Department of Justice in July 2017, officials declined to make it public, instead committing to releasing reports of the team’s expenditures every six months.
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