Mueller found no evidence Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia, says attorney general

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Brett Hol:
I hope the people that created this hoax are held accountable for wasting everybody’s time.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Brett Hol: Methinks Billy Barr, Mean Mr Mueller and clueless Comey should be very worried lawyers if perchance "The Donald" finally reads my tweets N'esy Pas?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Brett Hol: "I hope the people that created this hoax are held accountable for wasting everybody’s time."

Imagine if one of Trump's lawyers took an hour or so the check out this old file Methinks the first 20 pages should make Mr Mueller and many other Yankees sit up and pay attention N'esy Pas?

https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER

Pat Smith
What's funny is Fox News has been the most objective/balanced network the last two years, no matter what you think of them. They hire Liberals (Shep Smith, Donna Brazile, etc) and allow them a platform, while the other networks, including CBC, are just echo chambers of groupthink.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: "the other networks, including CBC, are just echo chambers of groupthink."

I agree but Fox is no better

Chris Evanyshyn
It’s official!
700 days later we finally know for certain.
Hillary lost on her own

David R. Amos
Reply to @Chris Evanyshyn: "Hillary lost on her own"

Methinks everybody knew that out of the gate it just took over two years for the Fake Left to see the FBI put it in writing tis all N'esy Pas?

don franco
The Mueller Report is serving to vindicate Trump's assertions that there was no collusion & that he won the presidency fairly. It is obvious the Democrats are losing the blame game and if they continue spinning rhetorical mush rather than outlining practical platforms they will be re-gifting the presidency to Trump in the forthcoming election.

David R. Amos
Reply to @don franco: Methinks many would agree that Trump was every bit as surprised as Clinton was on election night N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
Not what CBC and its fanboys told us the last 2 years.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: "Not what CBC and its fanboys told us the last 2 years."

Go figure why I am not surprised

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276

Steve Timmins
I can't stand Trump but he was right. This was a complete witch hunt

David R. Amos
Reply to @Steve Timmins: "I can't stand Trump but he was right. This was a complete witch hunt"

I Wholeheartedly Agree Sir

James McDonell
When are they going to investigate the Clinton/Obama foundation?

David R. Amos
Reply to @James McDonell: "When are they going to investigate the Clinton/Obama foundation?"

Methinks its a safe bet that its slated for the 12th of Never N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
"I investigated Trump for two years and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"

paul pinnisson
Reply to @Paul Kersey: Obama right? Treason at it's best.

David R. Amos
Reply to @paul pinnisson: Oh So True Methinks it was Obama's and Clinton's actions that created the swell of support for Trump and Bernie because folks had had enough of the rampant corruption However Trump never kept his promises N'esy Pas?

Pat Smith
Canadian MSM and the left will go down in history books with the Inquisition, Salem witch trials and McCarthyism. Congratulations guys, lol!!!

David R. Amos
Reply to @Pat Smith: "Congratulations guys, lol!!!"

Methinks that your may agree that this is all just a Circus and that Trump and Trudeau et al merely the latest of a long line of ringmasters tis al N;esy Pas?

Steve Cowell
I think Mr. Mueller is having a little chuckle this weekend, at the expense of all those who think the fact that no Trumps were charged means that the inquiry has exonerated them.

David R. Amos
Reply to @Steve Cowell: "I think Mr. Mueller is having a little chuckle this weekend"

Methinks that is the last thing Mr. Mueller He knows as well as "The Donald" that the fat lady ain't sung yet N'esy Pas?

Mueller found no evidence Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia, says attorney general

Report also 'does not exonerate' Trump of obstructing justice, says William Barr

The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 24, 2019 12:36 AM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago

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Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or co-ordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared Sunday. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting.

Trump, pleasure tinged with resentment after two years of investigations, declared "complete and total exoneration. "It's a shame that our country has had to go through this. To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this," he said.

But Democrats demanded to see the full Mueller report and insisted that even the summary by the president's attorney general hardly put him in the clear.

Mueller's conclusions, summarized by Barr in a four-page letter to Congress, represented a victory for Trump on a key question that has hung over his presidency from the start: Did his campaign work with Russia to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton? That was further good news for the president on top of the Justice Department's earlier announcement that Mueller had wrapped his investigation without new indictments.

It could deflate the hopes of Democrats in Congress and on the 2020 campaign trail that incriminating findings from Mueller would hobble the president.

But while Mueller was categorical in ruling out criminal collusion, he was far more circumspect on presidential obstruction of justice. Despite Trump's claim of total exoneration, Mueller did not draw a conclusion one way or the other on whether he sought to stifle the Russia investigation through his actions including the firing of former FBI director James Comey.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his home in McLean, Va., on Sunday. Barr has released a few details of Mueller's report. (Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Associated Press)

According to Barr's summary, Mueller set out "evidence on both sides of the question" and stated that "while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

Yet Barr, who was nominated by Trump in December, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in May 2017 and oversaw much of his work, went further in Trump's favor.

Barr said he and Rosenstein had determined that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to prove in court that Trump had committed obstruction of justice to hamper the probe. Barr has previously voiced a broad view of presidential powers, and in an unsolicited memo last June he cast doubt on whether the president could have obstructed justice through acts — like firing his FBI director — that he was legally empowered to take.

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Barr said their decision was based on the evidence uncovered by Mueller and not affected by Justice Department legal opinions that say a sitting president cannot be indicted.

Mueller's team examined a series of actions by the president in the last two years to determine if he intended obstruction. Those include his firing of Comey one week before Mueller's appointment, his public and private haranguing of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation because of his work on the campaign, his request of Comey to end an
investigation into Michael Flynn, the White House's first national security adviser, and his drafting of an incomplete explanation about his oldest son's meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign.

'Raises as many questions as it answers'

Sunday's summary — and its suggestion that Mueller may have found evidence in support of obstruction — sets up a fight between Barr and Democrats, who called for the special counsel's full report to be released and vowed to press on with their own investigations.

"Attorney General Barr's letter raises as many questions as it answers," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.

"Given Mr. Barr's public record of bias against the special counsel's inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report," they said. Trump's own claim of complete exoneration "directly contradicts the words of Mr. Mueller and is not to be taken with any degree of credibility," they added.

A copy of a letter from Attorney General William Barr advising Congress of the principal conclusions reached by Mueller is seen Sunday. (Jon Elswick/Associated Press)

Trump was at his Florida estate when lawmakers received the report. Barr's chief of staff called Emmet Flood, the lead White House lawyer on the investigation, to brief him on the findings shortly before he sent it to Congress. Mueller submitted his report to Barr instead of directly to Congress and the public because, unlike independent counsels such as Ken Starr in the case of President Bill Clinton, his investigation operated under the close supervision of the Justice Department.

Mueller's investigation ensnared nearly three dozen people, senior Trump campaign operatives among them. The probe illuminated Russia's assault on the American political system, painted the Trump campaign as eager to exploit the release of hacked Democratic emails to hurt Hillary Clinton and exposed lies by Trump aides aimed at covering up their Russia-related contacts.

Thirty-four people, including six Trump aides and advisers, were charged in the investigation.

Twenty-five are Russians accused of election interference either through hacking into Democratic accounts or orchestrating a social media campaign to spread disinformation on the Internet. Though Mueller did not find evidence that anyone associated with the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government, Barr's summary notes "multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."

(((Rep. Nadler))) ✔ @RepJerryNadler

In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future.

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That's a likely reference not only to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting at which Donald Trump. Jr. expected to receive damaging information on Clinton from a Kremlin-connected lawyer, as well as a conversation in London months earlier at which Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos was told Russia had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of thousands of stolen emails.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, said Congress needs to hear from Barr about his decision and see "all the underlying evidence." He said on Twitter, "DOJ owes the public more than just a brief synopsis and decision not to go any further in their work."

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Barr said that Mueller "thoroughly" investigated the question of whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia's election interference, issuing more than 2,800 subpoenas, obtaining nearly 500 search warrants and interviewing 500 witnesses. Trump answered some questions in writing, but Mueller was not able to interview him in person.

Barr said Mueller also catalogued the president's actions including "many" that took place in "public view," a possible nod to Trump's public attacks on investigators and witnesses.

In the letter, Barr said he concluded that none of Trump's actions constituted a federal crime that prosecutors could prove in court.

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