Hogwash. Mueller didn’t think so.
How is sending Trump Campaign polling data to a hostile foreign government outside of the context of the Trump campaign?
If I work for the social security administration and send 10,000 social security numbers to China… is that wrong, even if I don’t know what the data was used for?
Then why didn’t Mueller charge Manafort with anything having to do with the Trump campaign?
It’s ironic to see Trumpers using #factsmatter since so much of their spin has been disproven over and over and over. Manafort wasn’t working on his own. The change in the RNC platform is proof of that.
Once again, Manafort’s action was rogue. No one else was involved. Thus it had everything to do with Manafort but nothing to do with Trump or anyone else in Trump’s campaign.
That simply isn’t true. You continuing to repeat it won’t change that.
#factsmatter
What’s not true this time?
You can continue to repeat that nonsense until you are blue in the face.
As a matter of fact, Barr asked Mueller three times if the OLC opinion prevented him from finding obstruction. Each of those three times Mueller responded that he wouldn’t have found for obstruction even without the OLC.
Barr testified as much in his Senate testimony.
In Mueller’s statement to the press, he ignored that point entirely. In a follow-up joint statement he acknowledged Barr’s testimony, stating there was no conflict between that testimony and Mueller’s earlier statement to the press.
Bottom line. While Barr used the OLC as guidance, it did not prevent him from finding obstruction.
Those are the facts.
#factsmatter
Pretty much everything you stated in post 1023
“the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.”
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Read the recently released Manafort instant message transcripts… they are hardly indicative of your assessment that he was going rogue… clearly placing messages in a chanel directly to the candidate. What sort of rogue operative does that?
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But the founding fathers never intended for the tool to be used as a political weapon.
Do those messages show that Manafort was coordinating with Trump or with anyone else in Trump’s campaign his sharing of polling data?
Hey you brought it up, as if the DEM freak show was what the founding father’s had in mind. It really doesn’t surprise me that you seem to believe it is exactly what they envisioned.
I brought it up because that is what Mueller said in his report.
You attacking me personally doesn’t advance a point, furthermore I have not stated in anyway what I believe the founding father’s envisioned.
The live reading of the Mueller Report. I’m adding this to the OP.
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A couple of additions.
For those who want a quick summation, a 30-minute look at the Mueller Report from PBS.
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And the hour long celebrity reading of the Mueller Report with such stars as John Lithgow, Annette Bening, Kevin Kline and Jason Alexander (who gives it a Seinfeld-type George Costanza feeling as Chris Christie).
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Having read the whole report, including several sections multiple times, I can say unequivocally that it is a damning condemnation of Trump and several people on his campaign and around his circle of influence. He is not fit to be in office.
If he were not President there is no question he would be prosecuted and convicted of multiple felonies. If we did not have a tradition of forgiving the crimes of the elite, he would be prosecuted when he leaves office. His actions are egregious enough there is a small chance that still may occur.
It’s telling that there seems to not be anyone who has read the full report and comes to the conclusion that everything that happened was a-okay.
