Letter: Report never exonerated President

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I question Trump’s actions.

I read the Mueller “Report On the Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election”. Even though I voted for Trump, I do not understand why there is no massive outrage into Trump’s criminal activities which are well documented in the report and based on sworn testimonies along with physical evidence.

I do not understand why President Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his appointed Attorney General, William Barr, are trying to fool and mislead the American people to the facts cited in the Mueller Report. They keep to the storyline that there was no collusion, no obstruction and complete exoneration. Was just a “witch hunt” they say.

This is exactly the opposite of what the report alludes. The report specifically cites that Trump was not exonerated. That there was massive collusion and instances of willful obstruction of justice in the operations of the Trump campaign and resultant criminal inquiries.

There is substantial evidence that the Russians tried very hard by using numerous attempts to influence the 2016 US Presidential election using social media to favor the Trump campaign. Trump claims he is the most transparent President ever, yet he refused being interviewed by the Mueller team. Even today he orders his staff or former staff members not to testify (even under subpoena) or answer questions regarding his attempts to blackmail the Ukrainian Government.

I understand why the Republican Leader (Moscow Mitch) in the Senate, refuses to support the bi-partisan efforts to ensure safe and fair election legislation in the future, but I don’t understand why honest Republicans are saying nothing.

Hello? Senators Young and Braun, your silence is deafening.

Over 1000 former federal prosecutors have stated there are multiple accounts of obstruction of justice in the report. Even today over 2000 former U.S. attorneys have called for the resignation of Attorney General Barr for his (fixing) meddling into cases favoring Trump associates and friends, like Roger Stone and General Flynn.

“No longer is justice blind and why did Trump fire our beloved Senator Dan Coats?

Senators Braun and Young…..hello? Afraid to answer??

Dan Barrett, Jasper

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  1. What’s this compulsion about beating this old dead horse? It’s more than tedious.

    1. You nailed it – known as ‘compulsive “beating” disorder’ – aka, a broken record, redundant repetition or repetitive redundancy, same ol’ sh**, etc.

    2. It’s not beating a dead horse because now that the impeachment book is closed, the implications of the Mueller report are much more sinister.

      What the Mueller report proved that there was a foreign initiative to influence our election and the the Trump Administration refused to cooperate and actively hindered any investigation into this interference. How did the GOP respond? By doing a victory lap and letting any election security bills die in the Senate.

      Moving onto impeachment, instead of addressing whether or not the president committed a crime, (Except Braun on his nationwide “I love Trump” TV tour, who took the nonsensical position that the call, even with Trumps “Perfect” transcript, never actually happened.) took the nuclear option that a president cannot be impeached because it overrides the previous election and interferes in the next election. That’s the legal precedent now. Turns out Presidents are unimpeachable!

      So based upon the Mueller report and the Impeachment, The Executive branch has had it’s primary “check” invalidated. The only mechanism with which Trump, or any future President, could be held accountable for their actions is through the election process which has been proven to vulnerable, flawed, and by all accounts already compromised for 2020.

      Does that not concern you? Even a little bit? Just because you happen to like the person in office right now?

      1. That is one strange fanciful interpretation. There’s just no way to make that old dead horse get up and run again.

          1. Touche, JK. I think the only hope we have is to state the facts simply, lay them out in logical fashion. and pray that somehow people drop their blinders and at least acknowledge them. What they do with them, how they interpret them is beyond my control. But it would make for a more informed debate.

      2. Mueller “employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence forensic accountants, and other professional staff. The Special Counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses and received 1.2M pages of documents.

        Their finding? The special counsel found that Russia did interfere with the election, but “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple efforts from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.”

        But Barr said that he and Rosenstein “have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.”

        Now that the federal appeals court ruled that former White House counsel Donald McGahn does not have to comply with a subpoena seeking his testimony to the House Judiciary committee. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the Constitution bars federal courts from acting as a referee in “this kind” of “information” dispute between the executive branch and Congress.

        This shows that the Obstruction of Congress in Article #2 of the Impeachment Trial favored Donald Trump.

        “I think the only hope we have is to state the facts simply, lay them out in logical fashion.” Whose Logic?

        Here are the facts: The House of Representatives did not indicted on the Mueller Report and Impeach the President on the Mueller Report. They didn’t even try. The House of representatives not only couldn’t get a conviction on Articles one and two but the US Appeals Court ruled in favor of the President on Article 2 of the Impeachment indictment.

        The Democrats of lost in every court and was unsuccessful in winning a conviction in the Senate. Jury’s in and Trump has won.

        The horse is dead. Let it rest in peace.

        Daryl Hensley, Jasper IN

        1. Rest assured I’m not trying to re-litigate the last four years to the comment section of a small town newspaper.

          Here’s the point I’m trying to make:

          1. The special counsel found that Russia did interfere with the election – as you’ve said.

          2. No measures have been taken to correct the causes of that interference. Largely due to the GOP.

          3. The primary defense of the Impeachment case is that It would invalidate the results of the previous election and interfere with the next election. Key word there – “election”. Refer to points one and two.

          Therefore, the only voice we have in government is done through a flawed mechanism. I’d like to know why the GOP nationwide is thrilled with that idea. And why for whatever reason Braun seems to be OK with that idea.

  2. Keep in mind that the Russians interfered when O’bama was president, and he chose to not do anything to assure it wouldn’t happen again. As I remember, Russia had interfered in hopes of getting Hillary elected, not Donald.

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