The prestige press has some explaining to do — for subjecting the nation to a long, cruel ordeal named “collusion” and “obstruction.” Almost two years and millions of column inches later, special counsel Robert Mueller has revealed the theory that President Trump and his campaign conspired with Russia has been just that.
All that remains of collusion and obstruction is the media’s shattered credibility.
The errant reporters and pundits — the ones who peddled the most outrageous falsehoods — want nothing more than to move on. But not so fast: There has to be some accountability for the biggest foul-ups.
Here are the 10 worst, drawn from among many more:
It took four bylines — including those of CNN stars Jake Tapper and Gloria Borger — to completely botch the most important aspect of former FBI Director James Comey’s June 2017 congressional testimony. Comey, per CNN, would dispute Trump’s claim that Comey told him that he (the president) isn’t under investigation. Oops! Turns out Comey didn’t, in fact, dispute Trump’s position, and Tapper & Co. had to run a correction walking back their big scoop.
New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s column of Dec. 2, 2018, was silly even by his standards. “Members of Trump’s team were extremely interested in and eager to accept any assistance that the Russians could provide,” wrote Blow. “That is clear.” Actually, it isn’t clear. Mueller’s investigators “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government,” said the report. Expect Blow to fail upward.
8. Washington Post ‘fact checker’ needs a fact check
“All the Known Times the Trump Campaign Met With Russians” read the headline on a 2017 Fact Checker feature in The Washington Post. But by fact-checking, the paper really means judging various claims against liberal orthodoxies. Case in point: The claim in question was Trump’s protest that “Russia” is “fake news to try to make up for the loss of the Democrats.” The Washington Post judged that to be “false.” The Mueller report suggests otherwise.
Mistakes get corrected and usually apologized for. These weren’t mistakes; they were intentional LIES. They were ravenous, biased, prejudiced people leaping upon any and all rumors unfavorable to Trump and running them as headlines rather than verify them. The intention was to INFLICT DAMAGE to Trump regardless of the damage to the country caused. The goal was liberal power.
The media is a national embarrassment. Where can we go buy some real journalism?
kitt
5 years ago
@Deplorable Me: Where can we go buy some real journalism?
Wiileaks and the Black Vault (an impressive FOIA collection), just raw information put out there, no opinion. Raw uncensored its free but you can donate. Journalism is dead. Billionaires own the media and you see what they want you to see, hear what they want you to hear.
The sources I listed are not up to the minute, repeated every 15 minutes 24/7 you wont have to suffer through what hollywood actors think, or “pseudo” experts trotted out to reinforce opinion, not fact.
John’s “No more fake News” has interesting findings as well.
John Solomon
Sara Carter
Molly Hemmingway
Glenn Greenwald (admits he is a Democrat but he is fair and for the most part, honest)
Sharyl Attkisson
Those are the few I know of that haven’t sold their souls to the DNC. Even Fox is now tacking to the left with the hiring of Donna Brazille who was fired from her last gig for providing the questions to Hillary prior to a debate. She is there for one purpose; to promote the leftist agenda/lies. And if you thought Juan Williams was bad, Donna Brazille is worse.
“There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday morning.
The remark came after Tapper asked Giuliani to comment on a statement from Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney, who responded to the findings of the Mueller report by saying he was “appalled” members of the Trump campaign “welcomed help from Russia.”
“Stop the bull. Stop the pious act,” Giuliani said of Romney, alleging the Utah senator accepted “dirt” on people while running for president against former president Barack Obama in 2012.
Tapper pressed the lawyer, asking him if there was a difference between taking opposition research from Americans and taking it from American adversaries.
“What a hypocrite. Any candidate in the world — in America — would take information,” Giuliani said before before concluding, “Who says it’s even illegal?”
Yeah, right Rudy. I have lost my compass, therefore north no longer exists.
We could make a list of guiding principles that apparently no longer exist or have been rendered irrelevant within the Trumpian sphere of political control and influence. But what would be the point? All concrete examples would be ignored as false news. Just look at the motes in those other guys’ eyes, will ya? In any case, beams aren’t illegal.
The GOP needs to get their compass back before they lead the entire country over the edge of a cliff. Those looking for the sources of the smoke aren’t the ones who have started the fires.
Deplorable Me
5 years ago
@Greg: Um… Hillary and the DNC PAID for Russians to INVENT information about Trump. Was that OK or immoral? How about the CIA and FBI, knowing Hillary and the DNC paid for this dubious information, which they never bothered to even TRY to verify, to build their entire case against Trump upon… good government policy? What kind of compass guides YOU people?
Who decides where to stick the magnet to provide the direction desired? Come on… answer one.
Trust me… you have NO authority to speak about any moral compass. Your entire party is bereft of morality, ethics, character or guiding principles other than “the ends justifies the means”.
Hillary and the DNC PAID for Russians to INVENT information about Trump.
Hillary Clinton didn’t pay anyone “to invent” anything.
A number of successive parties funded an opposition research inquiry that was conducted by a highly experienced intelligence gatherer, who uncovered a sh*t-load of very worrisome allegations. These were sufficiently credible and alarming to bring to the attention of law enforcement the intelligence community, and to convince a FISA judge on multiple occasions that a surveillance warrant was in order. Significant parts of of that report have now been corroborated or confirmed. Nothing Steele reported has yet been disproved.
The Mueller report should be enough to make any attentive person who cares about their country worried.
Trust me… you have NO authority to speak about any moral compass.
Why should someone who can’t see anything wrong with Donald Trump’s behavior be trusted? The man never owned a moral compass to begin with. His actions are guided by something else entirely. Consider his lawyers. Would you let any of these people teach an ethics class?
Hillary Clinton didn’t pay anyone “to invent” anything.
Have you lost what little sense G-d gave you?
Hillary, and the DNC, through Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS to hire Christopher Steele to create “the dossier.” That dossier was then used by the intelligence actors to obtain a FISA court order that allowed them to spy on Trump campaign associates.
I am not the only one who finds it odd that the Mueller report contains nada about the very source of this entire fiasco, the Steele Dossier.
The whole thing is dirty. And it was the left side of the aisle that was shoveling the dirt. But because of your TDS, you cannot see the injustice that was committed against Americans, who had their lives ruined, by the Justice Department, the FBI and yes, by Mueller, himself.
Tell me Greggie Gullible, how does one become so brainwashed, so blinded to the truth as you have?
You better hope that you are never charged with a serious crime under your standards. No longer must the charges of crime be proved by a prosecuting attorney, If it cannot be disproved, you will be a jail bird.
Apparently, you on the left want to throw “innocent until proven guilty” right out the window if it applies to a Republican. You, and your like minded Democrats, pose a real threat to our representative republic.
Hillary Clinton didn’t pay anyone “to invent” anything.
Well, factually speaking, yes she did.
A number of successive parties funded an opposition research inquiry that was conducted by a highly experienced intelligence gatherer, who uncovered a sh*t-load of very worrisome allegations.
How experienced does one have to be to compile a list of lies? Basically, whatever he was told (Russian attempt to hurt Trump’s candidacy, by the way) he accepted without question. Then, the CIA and FBI did the same. So, taking fantasy stories as fact without bothering to even TRY to verify any of it is not very smart. But, when the intent is to simply concoct an excuse to conduct surveillance, I guess you can’t be too picky, especially when no REAL evidence exists.
These were sufficiently credible and alarming to bring to the attention of law enforcement the intelligence community, and to convince a FISA judge on multiple occasions that a surveillance warrant was in order.
Were they SO credible that they did not think it necessary to do even some cursory checking of how credible they were? As it turned out they were ALL FALSE, so I guess not only were they NOT credible, but it exposes the abject failure of law enforcement and the IC to impartially do its job… part of the Obama legacy.
Even the liberal propaganda organ NYT admits the dossier was false. I think your talking points need an update.
So, again, how about taking a stab at answering my question; is DEMOCRATS BUYING false information from Russians somehow more palatable than Republicans entertaining an offer of information from Russians? Can’t you BORROW some guts to be able to answer the question?
Hillary, and the DNC, through Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS to hire Christopher Steele to create “the dossier.”
That would be part of your cult mythology. How the Steele dossier came about is more complex that that. A Wikipedia article on the topic provides a concise summary and provides credible references for each point made.
In October 2015, Fusion GPS was contracted by conservative political website The Washington Free Beacon to provide general opposition research on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates. In April 2016, attorney Marc Elias separately hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC. The Free Beacon stopped its backing when Trump became the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee in May of 2016.[2] In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted Steele’s firm to compile the dossier. His instructions were to seek answers to why Trump would “repeatedly seek to do deals in a notoriously corrupt police state”. Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that the Clinton campaign was the recipient of his research. Following Trump’s election as president, funding from Clinton and the DNC ceased, but Steele continued his research and was reportedly paid directly by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn R. Simpson. The completed dossier was then handed to British and American intelligence services.
You better hope that you are never charged with a serious crime under your standards. No longer must the charges of crime be proved by a prosecuting attorney, If it cannot be disproved, you will be a jail bird.
That’s a typical misdirection. That nothing has been disproved is not a suggestion that anyone is guilty until proven innocent. The observation only demonstrates that the Steele dossier has not been discredited. On the contrary, significant parts have been confirmed.
The Mueller Report is the document that should be looked at closely. It establishes a number of facts, from which rational conclusions can be drawn. These facts are not to the liking of Trump & Company. They are attempting to counter them by way of a public relations effort. If they ever wind up in court, this approach will cease to work.
You’re correct about Cohen’s alleged trip to Prague. The Mueller Report concludes that Cohen WAS NOT in Prague as alleged, so that would be a Steele Report claim that has apparently been disproved. It’s not clear why a phone Cohen used was pinged in the Czech Republic.
“The Kremlin’s cultivation operation on Trump also had comprised offering him various lucrative real estate development business deals in Russia, especially in relation to the ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament. However, so far, for reasons unknown, Trump had not taken up any of these.”
Clinton campaign officials were reportedly unaware that Fusion GPS had subcontracted Steele, and he was not told that the Clinton campaign was the recipient of his research.
But, by the time they were questioned about it, they WERE aware… and they LIED. They and the DNC PAID Fusion and Steele for information from Russians. The CIA and FBI took it, spread it around some media and then as soon as they heard the story they cultivated BACK from the media, they pretended it was real. THAT’S how complicated it was.
Now, collusion… that wasn’t complicated at all, was it? It was pretty simple… BECAUSE IT NEVER EXISTED.
Greg
5 years ago
Were it not for the Steele dossier, we might never have become aware of the extent of the covert Russian effort to undermine our nation’s presidential election process—which, I suppose, would have been just fine with Trump’s supporters. That was also repeatedly denied, as I recall.
The Trump administration is corrupt from the top down. The Mueller report shines a spotlight on one facet of that corruption, if nothing else: it makes Trump’s repeated efforts to obstruct justice very clear. He was not indicted only because of DoJ policy.
Were it not for the Steele dossier, we might never have become aware of the extent of the covert Russian effort to undermine our nation’s presidential election process—which, I suppose, would have been just fine with Trump’s supporters.
That must be why the Mueller report cited the dossier so extensively as verification of the Russian meddling, right? Your bullshit is getting so weak, Greg. Maybe you need to simply rely on facts from now on.
The only use for the Steele dossier was to provide totally unverified and untrue accusations in order to try to justify spying on his campaign. The corruption is ALL found on your side of the issue. Buying flawed information from Russians, illegal surveillance, putting spies in and around Trump’s campaign, spread the unverified dossier around the liberal propaganda media and launch a totally unnecessary “investigation” LOOKING FOR A CRIME. That’s pretty corrupt. Meanwhile, Trump cooperated with the “investigation” fully in every way. Compare that to your beloved Hillary smashing phones and laptops, destroying emails, withholding documents and 37 “I don’t know’s”. Those YOU support are rotten corrupt.
Clinton caught mishandling classified info…let off by FBI and AG without clear reason. That’s ok.
Trump: won election fairly, with a hoax investigation to reverse the election. Not indicted because there’s nothing to indict him about.
You wonder why your party is the more corrupt of the two..and winning less elections?
Keep hammering on this, though. It guarantees Trump’s 2020 win of the electoral college and popular vote.
kitt
5 years ago
@Nathan Blue: How can Congress Impeach a Republican President when all the crimes that were committed were committed by Democrats!
There is the 450 tweet melt down
450/ On pg. 199, Mueller gives a *big* list of (it seems) Trumpworld personalities—all names/info redacted—who at *some* point lied to Mueller but then came clean, or cooperated, or for some other reason escaped punishment. You and I should be so lucky—if we ever acted like that.
@kitt: I know, right? The Dem-dominated media cycle is all about the word “Impeachment” just after Trump was exonerated. It’s lunacy.
Repeat a lie until people believe it…but more people are starting to not trust the Dems…at all.
Most of us just want a President that will do their job, not become a media sensation.
kitt
5 years ago
@Nathan Blue: You cant exonerate an innocent person they were never guilty.
They tried real hard to nail Trump on anything they could make up.
Collusion, a non crime.
Obstruction of Justice they were not even attempting to bring justice into this so nothing to obstruct.
a 30 million dollar unicorn hunt good work if you can get it.
There are others Oak Island, Bigfoot and an honest Democrat.
It did not cite the Steele dossier as verification. It cited points in the Steele dossier that were investigated.
…were investigated, and found nothing to indict Trump on.
A moot point. Now for the counter-investigation…can’t wait to see how you like the “points” that will be looked at…I’m sure you’ll complain when they do to your party what your party has done to others…
You cant exonerate an innocent person they were never guilty.
This shows a gaping, fundamental lack of understanding about the meaning of the word “exonerate.” The only way a person can be exonerated is if he or she were never guilty in the first place. It’s the meaning of the word.
Oh, and Mueller said that, as a result of his investigation, he was unable to say that Trump was exonerated.
Randy
5 years ago
@Michael: Mueller was supposed to find facts, not repeat opinion or false statements in the media. To exonerate actually is a the finding of fact that provides the person making the statement has found something that shows truth “beyond reasonable doubt”. That is why our legal system criteria is to find a person guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Truth can not be determined “beyond a reasonable doubt” because individuals each determine their own truth. The whole liberal/progressive movement since WWII has embraced the principles of “Postmodern Philosophy”. One of those tenents is that we all are allowed to create our own truths. Truths are no longer based upon society experiences, but on individual experiences. That is why educators and lefties post such ignorant comments here.
Michael
5 years ago
@Randy: That whole philosophical treatise has, really, nothing to do with the facts of the matter.
If they uncover actual criminality and wrongdoing as was done with the Trump administration, I for one hope that justice is served.
Yes, I’m aware you’re hysterical, and will fill in the gaps of logic to make unreal things real, such as this farce investigation. You won’t put that lens of do-gooder-ness on your own Democratic Party, which is why no one trusts the left and no one is voting for the Dems. Have fun with your delusion.
Randy
5 years ago
@Michael: Actually, the philosophy is exactly why only lefties are pursuing obstruction when the rest of the world knows the real truth.
That whole philosophical treatise has, really, nothing to do with the facts of the matter.
Uh, what Randy was saying is you’re making shit up…as is your party…simply for the lust of power.
Trump isn’t going to be impeached or indicted for anything. The word you are parsing, exoneration, just shows your desperation as directed by you Leftist masters.
For one, I can’t really exonerate you for murder…I don’t have all the fact about you that I could say you haven’t killed someone in your life. You MAY have killed someone. You MAY have molested a child, too.
So Trump isn’t “exonerated” of defending himself against a political move meant to take away his election win. Ok. You’re not exonerated of maybe molesting a child.
I’ll refer to you as maybe-a-child-molester-Michael from now on, since I really can’t exonerate you.
If they uncover actual criminality and wrongdoing as was done with the Trump administration, I for one hope that justice is served.
Instead, I predict they will uncover REAL criminality, not just imaginary crimes as the left has done in Trump’s case.
For instance, since we have video of Hillary lying about having classified information illegally on her secret, private, unsecured server, should she be tried for perjury?
Mistakes get corrected and usually apologized for. These weren’t mistakes; they were intentional LIES. They were ravenous, biased, prejudiced people leaping upon any and all rumors unfavorable to Trump and running them as headlines rather than verify them. The intention was to INFLICT DAMAGE to Trump regardless of the damage to the country caused. The goal was liberal power.
The media is a national embarrassment. Where can we go buy some real journalism?
@Deplorable Me: Where can we go buy some real journalism?
Wiileaks and the Black Vault (an impressive FOIA collection), just raw information put out there, no opinion. Raw uncensored its free but you can donate.
Journalism is dead. Billionaires own the media and you see what they want you to see, hear what they want you to hear.
The sources I listed are not up to the minute, repeated every 15 minutes 24/7 you wont have to suffer through what hollywood actors think, or “pseudo” experts trotted out to reinforce opinion, not fact.
John’s “No more fake News” has interesting findings as well.
@Deplorable Me:
John Solomon
Sara Carter
Molly Hemmingway
Glenn Greenwald (admits he is a Democrat but he is fair and for the most part, honest)
Sharyl Attkisson
Those are the few I know of that haven’t sold their souls to the DNC. Even Fox is now tacking to the left with the hiring of Donna Brazille who was fired from her last gig for providing the questions to Hillary prior to a debate. She is there for one purpose; to promote the leftist agenda/lies. And if you thought Juan Williams was bad, Donna Brazille is worse.
April 21, 2019 — And furthermore…there’s nothing wrong with taking info from Russians.
Yeah, right Rudy. I have lost my compass, therefore north no longer exists.
We could make a list of guiding principles that apparently no longer exist or have been rendered irrelevant within the Trumpian sphere of political control and influence. But what would be the point? All concrete examples would be ignored as false news. Just look at the motes in those other guys’ eyes, will ya? In any case, beams aren’t illegal.
The GOP needs to get their compass back before they lead the entire country over the edge of a cliff. Those looking for the sources of the smoke aren’t the ones who have started the fires.
@Greg: Um… Hillary and the DNC PAID for Russians to INVENT information about Trump. Was that OK or immoral? How about the CIA and FBI, knowing Hillary and the DNC paid for this dubious information, which they never bothered to even TRY to verify, to build their entire case against Trump upon… good government policy? What kind of compass guides YOU people?
Who decides where to stick the magnet to provide the direction desired? Come on… answer one.
Trust me… you have NO authority to speak about any moral compass. Your entire party is bereft of morality, ethics, character or guiding principles other than “the ends justifies the means”.
@Deplorable Me, #5:
Hillary Clinton didn’t pay anyone “to invent” anything.
A number of successive parties funded an opposition research inquiry that was conducted by a highly experienced intelligence gatherer, who uncovered a sh*t-load of very worrisome allegations. These were sufficiently credible and alarming to bring to the attention of law enforcement the intelligence community, and to convince a FISA judge on multiple occasions that a surveillance warrant was in order. Significant parts of of that report have now been corroborated or confirmed. Nothing Steele reported has yet been disproved.
The Mueller report should be enough to make any attentive person who cares about their country worried.
Why should someone who can’t see anything wrong with Donald Trump’s behavior be trusted? The man never owned a moral compass to begin with. His actions are guided by something else entirely. Consider his lawyers. Would you let any of these people teach an ethics class?
@Greg:
Have you lost what little sense G-d gave you?
Hillary, and the DNC, through Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS to hire Christopher Steele to create “the dossier.” That dossier was then used by the intelligence actors to obtain a FISA court order that allowed them to spy on Trump campaign associates.
I am not the only one who finds it odd that the Mueller report contains nada about the very source of this entire fiasco, the Steele Dossier.
The whole thing is dirty. And it was the left side of the aisle that was shoveling the dirt. But because of your TDS, you cannot see the injustice that was committed against Americans, who had their lives ruined, by the Justice Department, the FBI and yes, by Mueller, himself.
Tell me Greggie Gullible, how does one become so brainwashed, so blinded to the truth as you have?
@Greg:
You better hope that you are never charged with a serious crime under your standards. No longer must the charges of crime be proved by a prosecuting attorney, If it cannot be disproved, you will be a jail bird.
Apparently, you on the left want to throw “innocent until proven guilty” right out the window if it applies to a Republican. You, and your like minded Democrats, pose a real threat to our representative republic.
@Greg:
Well, factually speaking, yes she did.
How experienced does one have to be to compile a list of lies? Basically, whatever he was told (Russian attempt to hurt Trump’s candidacy, by the way) he accepted without question. Then, the CIA and FBI did the same. So, taking fantasy stories as fact without bothering to even TRY to verify any of it is not very smart. But, when the intent is to simply concoct an excuse to conduct surveillance, I guess you can’t be too picky, especially when no REAL evidence exists.
Were they SO credible that they did not think it necessary to do even some cursory checking of how credible they were? As it turned out they were ALL FALSE, so I guess not only were they NOT credible, but it exposes the abject failure of law enforcement and the IC to impartially do its job… part of the Obama legacy.
Even the liberal propaganda organ NYT admits the dossier was false. I think your talking points need an update.
So, again, how about taking a stab at answering my question; is DEMOCRATS BUYING false information from Russians somehow more palatable than Republicans entertaining an offer of information from Russians? Can’t you BORROW some guts to be able to answer the question?
@Greg:
Well, Hillary and the DNC got information from the Russians too. And paid a lot for it.
Beg your pardon. The pee video? Steele never went to Russia. He collected all the crap from Russian operatives.
@Greg:
Name them. Like Cohen in Prague?
And since when it is necessary to prove the negative? Nothing other than Page going to Russia has been proven.
@retire05, #7:
That would be part of your cult mythology. How the Steele dossier came about is more complex that that. A Wikipedia article on the topic provides a concise summary and provides credible references for each point made.
@retire05, #8:
That’s a typical misdirection. That nothing has been disproved is not a suggestion that anyone is guilty until proven innocent. The observation only demonstrates that the Steele dossier has not been discredited. On the contrary, significant parts have been confirmed.
The Mueller Report is the document that should be looked at closely. It establishes a number of facts, from which rational conclusions can be drawn. These facts are not to the liking of Trump & Company. They are attempting to counter them by way of a public relations effort. If they ever wind up in court, this approach will cease to work.
@DrJohn, #11:
From Business Insider, January 13, 2019 — Grading the Steele dossier 2 years later: what’s been corroborated and what’s still unclear
You’re correct about Cohen’s alleged trip to Prague. The Mueller Report concludes that Cohen WAS NOT in Prague as alleged, so that would be a Steele Report claim that has apparently been disproved. It’s not clear why a phone Cohen used was pinged in the Czech Republic.
@Greg:
Greg, there is but one reference to the dossier in the Mueller report and it describes the dossier as “unverified.”
@Greg:
I like this part from your link:
@DrJohn:
Isn’t that what we generally call an alibi?
@Greg:
But, by the time they were questioned about it, they WERE aware… and they LIED. They and the DNC PAID Fusion and Steele for information from Russians. The CIA and FBI took it, spread it around some media and then as soon as they heard the story they cultivated BACK from the media, they pretended it was real. THAT’S how complicated it was.
Now, collusion… that wasn’t complicated at all, was it? It was pretty simple… BECAUSE IT NEVER EXISTED.
Were it not for the Steele dossier, we might never have become aware of the extent of the covert Russian effort to undermine our nation’s presidential election process—which, I suppose, would have been just fine with Trump’s supporters. That was also repeatedly denied, as I recall.
The Trump administration is corrupt from the top down. The Mueller report shines a spotlight on one facet of that corruption, if nothing else: it makes Trump’s repeated efforts to obstruct justice very clear. He was not indicted only because of DoJ policy.
@Greg:
That must be why the Mueller report cited the dossier so extensively as verification of the Russian meddling, right? Your bullshit is getting so weak, Greg. Maybe you need to simply rely on facts from now on.
The only use for the Steele dossier was to provide totally unverified and untrue accusations in order to try to justify spying on his campaign. The corruption is ALL found on your side of the issue. Buying flawed information from Russians, illegal surveillance, putting spies in and around Trump’s campaign, spread the unverified dossier around the liberal propaganda media and launch a totally unnecessary “investigation” LOOKING FOR A CRIME. That’s pretty corrupt. Meanwhile, Trump cooperated with the “investigation” fully in every way. Compare that to your beloved Hillary smashing phones and laptops, destroying emails, withholding documents and 37 “I don’t know’s”. Those YOU support are rotten corrupt.
@Greg:
Clinton caught mishandling classified info…let off by FBI and AG without clear reason. That’s ok.
Trump: won election fairly, with a hoax investigation to reverse the election. Not indicted because there’s nothing to indict him about.
You wonder why your party is the more corrupt of the two..and winning less elections?
Keep hammering on this, though. It guarantees Trump’s 2020 win of the electoral college and popular vote.
@Nathan Blue: How can Congress Impeach a Republican President when all the crimes that were committed were committed by Democrats!
There is the 450 tweet melt down
@kitt: I know, right? The Dem-dominated media cycle is all about the word “Impeachment” just after Trump was exonerated. It’s lunacy.
Repeat a lie until people believe it…but more people are starting to not trust the Dems…at all.
Most of us just want a President that will do their job, not become a media sensation.
@Nathan Blue: You cant exonerate an innocent person they were never guilty.
They tried real hard to nail Trump on anything they could make up.
Collusion, a non crime.
Obstruction of Justice they were not even attempting to bring justice into this so nothing to obstruct.
a 30 million dollar unicorn hunt good work if you can get it.
There are others Oak Island, Bigfoot and an honest Democrat.
@Deplorable Me, #19:
It did not cite the Steele dossier as verification. It cited points in the Steele dossier that were investigated.
The Communists News Network and and the New York Pravda LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES SKREEEEE SKREEET,KRRAWWW,SQUAWK SQUAWK
@Greg:
…were investigated, and found nothing to indict Trump on.
A moot point. Now for the counter-investigation…can’t wait to see how you like the “points” that will be looked at…I’m sure you’ll complain when they do to your party what your party has done to others…
@Greg:
Of course it didn’t. Because the dossier was garbage.
@Nathan Blue:
If they uncover actual criminality and wrongdoing as was done with the Trump administration, I for one hope that justice is served.
@kitt:
This shows a gaping, fundamental lack of understanding about the meaning of the word “exonerate.” The only way a person can be exonerated is if he or she were never guilty in the first place. It’s the meaning of the word.
Oh, and Mueller said that, as a result of his investigation, he was unable to say that Trump was exonerated.
@Michael: Mueller was supposed to find facts, not repeat opinion or false statements in the media. To exonerate actually is a the finding of fact that provides the person making the statement has found something that shows truth “beyond reasonable doubt”. That is why our legal system criteria is to find a person guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt”. Truth can not be determined “beyond a reasonable doubt” because individuals each determine their own truth. The whole liberal/progressive movement since WWII has embraced the principles of “Postmodern Philosophy”. One of those tenents is that we all are allowed to create our own truths. Truths are no longer based upon society experiences, but on individual experiences. That is why educators and lefties post such ignorant comments here.
@Randy: That whole philosophical treatise has, really, nothing to do with the facts of the matter.
@Michael:
Yes, I’m aware you’re hysterical, and will fill in the gaps of logic to make unreal things real, such as this farce investigation. You won’t put that lens of do-gooder-ness on your own Democratic Party, which is why no one trusts the left and no one is voting for the Dems. Have fun with your delusion.
@Michael: Actually, the philosophy is exactly why only lefties are pursuing obstruction when the rest of the world knows the real truth.
@Michael:
Uh, what Randy was saying is you’re making shit up…as is your party…simply for the lust of power.
Trump isn’t going to be impeached or indicted for anything. The word you are parsing, exoneration, just shows your desperation as directed by you Leftist masters.
For one, I can’t really exonerate you for murder…I don’t have all the fact about you that I could say you haven’t killed someone in your life. You MAY have killed someone. You MAY have molested a child, too.
So Trump isn’t “exonerated” of defending himself against a political move meant to take away his election win. Ok. You’re not exonerated of maybe molesting a child.
I’ll refer to you as maybe-a-child-molester-Michael from now on, since I really can’t exonerate you.
@Nathan Blue: That was my point exactly! Thanks.
@Michael:
Instead, I predict they will uncover REAL criminality, not just imaginary crimes as the left has done in Trump’s case.
For instance, since we have video of Hillary lying about having classified information illegally on her secret, private, unsecured server, should she be tried for perjury?