Day 834 Saturday April 20, 2019
562 Days to the 2020 election and 640 Days to Inauguration Day
Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow is Easter. I’m never sure what the Saturday in between is, but here we are.
I have many thoughts on the Mueller Report (Redacted) but before I go there I’d like to step back and look at a bigger picture. Russia interfered in our last presidential election, so the media reports. That is an understatement. They carried out an act of war against our country. They were aided and abetted by Paul Manafort the campaign chairman of the Trump campaign. Manafort gave them polling data and in one instance told his contact that the campaign needed help in several key swing states. The Russians carried out a social media attack campaign in those states and Trump won those states with less than a 1% margin. The total that he won four swing states that gave him the presidency was less than 72,000 votes. Does anyone believe that a targeted media campaign didn’t swing that many votes?
In other words, the Russians installed their man as our president. Let us not forget that fact. A Manchurian candidate is in the White House and he is running our country into the ground.
Now, onto the Mueller Report.
Everyone should read this report.
I had begun to read it two days ago. I stopped at the Table of Contents to Volume I. I was struck by the items listed in the table. “How could it be that this is not obstruction?” was my question to myself. that was my first impression.
The first paragraph lays out that Russia systematically attacked our election process.
I have read very little beyond that. I did look at all the pages and went to a section that had a huge redaction near it. Oh boy. I can’t remember exactly what I read around there, but I was struck by all the stuff we’ve been reading and hearing for months is in the report, but with more specificity. (That is, unless you are watching Fox News then you are getting an entirely different story to what the facts are as laid out in the report.)
I will go into detail in the coming screeds as I read more.
However, I’ve watched several news shows on this topic and I am struck by all the different bits and angles that these shows are bringing up. None of them the same. Many have concentrated on Barr and his antics. Ya gotta wonder what his deal is. It shows me one thing, if you get close to Trump you will be forever tarnished, not that Barr, imho, had much of a reputation to tarnish, but some believed “he was a good lawyer” etc. Well, you can forget that line. He’s a toady for Trump. (Hey, maybe that can be a sign to hold up at the next Trump rally? “TOADIES FOR TRUMP” )
The incredible outright lying by the Attorney General was not only shocking, but sad and disheartening. This wasn’t a case of looking at something in a slightly different light. This was outright lying. Why? Well, there’s all that talk about “getting out in front of the story” and “framing the narrative.” Maybe, Barr did that. For Trump? Why? He’s the AG of the U.S. not DT. Oh wait. There’s been a change? No? Then WTF?
However, people are now reading the report. It’s 448 pages in two volumes. The second volume is 180 pages and it lays out 12 or 14 cases of Trump’s obstructing the investigation, which is Obstruction of Justice. But Mueller wouldn’t call it that, because well shucks, the poor president can’t be charged according to a memo (not a law – a memo!) and because he can’t be charged it just wouldn’t be right to charge him because he can’t defend himself in a court of law. So we’ll let him use his bully pulpit, and Twitter, and Fox News, and all the rest of the right wing crapola to say he’s innocent and that there was no collusion and no obstruction when Mueller has laid out instance after instance of Trump doing just that: conspiring, colluding, and obstructing. This isn’t subtle stuff. It’s mostly in the public record before Mueller listed it, but Mueller has it corroborated with sworn testimony and verified paper trails.
Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders went on Fox and had people overwhelmingly liking what he was proposing over what Trump and the Republicans are doing. Next week Amy Klobuchar is going on Fox. I hope she does as well. Maybe then some of the rust belt, rural areas that voted for Trump will start to say, “Huh, maybe there’s a better way?”
Won’t it be interesting if the Trump base embraces Bernie? Or someone else? Hey, you tried Trump. He screwed you. Isn’t it time to try something and someone else?
Bill Weld is challenging Trump for the Republican nomination. As a conservative – financially – he thinks that running the country into so much debt as Trump is doing is not a good thing. Huh.
The other thing that is emerging from the Mueller Report (Redacted) is how incompetent and misguided the White House is on a functioning level. Many have said that we would be in real trouble if a crisis were to hit and we needed swift decision making centered in the White House.
The other thing that emerges is a picture of Donald aa a weak and ineffectual boss.
Then there’s Ivanka and Jared. They are supposedly working for the good of the American people as employees of the Federal government. Last year they made between $60 and $80 million. Do you know of any other Federal employee that’s pulling down that kind of money?
Just asking. Oh maybe Wilbur, or any of the other crooks in the cabinet. Yeah. Okay. Maybe so.
Is there anyone Trump has put in a position that is doing anything for the people?
562 Days to the 2020 election and 640 Days to Inauguration Day
PS Freedom Fighter
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