Yes, now you too can read the Mueller Report, on which so many liberal hopes were pinned, only to be dashed (at least for that ever-dwindling pool of liberals capable of ration thought) by Attorney General William Barr’s summary that there was no collusion and no obstruction, a fact confirmed by Barr in his press conference this morning. Since then, those who swallowed the Trump Russia Collusion Fantasy hook, line and sinker have been clinging to ever more fanciful theories in order to continue believing that the 2016 Presidential election could somehow still be undone by the report. Others, against all evidence, swore up and done that the Mueller Report would “never be released.”
Of those who continued to cling to the Trump Russia Collusion Fantasy after Barr’s summary, one wonders how many of them will be convinced by actually reading the report. I suspect many Democrats are simply too invested in the delusional belief structure to ever give it up, and no amount of evidence can ever change their minds.
Skimming the report itself, it appears that less than 10% of it has been redacted, and each redaction has been labeled with the reason for the redaction (Harm to Ongoing Matter (i.e., continuing investigations into other criminal or spying activity), Personal Privacy, Investigative Technique (such as confidential NSA electronic intercept techniques), and Grand Jury).
A few Democrats asserted (some jokingly, some not) that the entire report would only consist of page after page of black boxes completely blotting out the text. Thus far I see exactly one page that meets that criteria (page 30).
Unfortunately, one of the sections I was most interested in reading (that on Russia hacking the Clinton campaign), is also one of the most heavily redacted (pages 176-179).
I do wonder if some of the redactions are information that implicate the Clinton campaign on working with foreign sources to fabricate the Steele report. Time will tell…
But Barr’s overall assessment of the report still stands no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Hopefully I’ll get a chance to read the entire report over the next week.
Now some reactions:
What you're seeing is unprecedented desperation from the left. They went all in on a collusion conspiracy that never existed, didn't get the result they wanted, and now they're throwing manufactured controversies at the wall to see if anything sticks. It won't work. #NoCollusion
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) April 18, 2019
As you watch the media respond to news that even St. Mueller himself found zero Russian conclusion, keep in mind that they are cultists in the throes of a full-blown delusional disorder. In their minds, all evidence against their conspiracy theories only proves the conspiracy.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 18, 2019
You are witnessing a media raging over its last hope, not just to overturn an election, but to be seen as credible in the eyes of the public.
This is an absolute disaster for the media… It makes Rathergate look like a pop gun.
— Sources Say 'Build the Wall' (@NolteNC) April 18, 2019
One of the greatest political scandals in U.S. Histroy – the weaponization of the intelligence community, collusion with foreign intelligence and malfeasance by senior law enforcement official to remove a duly elected president. If there ever was a need for a Special Counsel
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) April 18, 2019
The breathless tone of the collusion section of the report and the blatant omission of material facts pertaining to actual Russian collusion by the Clinton campaign makes clear that Mueller and his lawyers were desperate to find collusion by Trump. And yet they still found none.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 18, 2019
“Stop being angry we accused you of losing an election you won and being a Russian agent!” https://t.co/EgIfAfODL0
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 18, 2019
Message to Bill Barr truthers: the key difference between Iran/Contra and Trump/Russia is that former stemmed from actual criminal wrongdoing, whereas the latter was based on a fiction
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
And later today, Robert Mueller, the man that was going to seal Trump’s impeachment, will be called everything from incompetent and ineffective, to a Russian plant sent to prop up Trump for Putin. This is all the @TheDemocrats have now, and it’s pathetic. https://t.co/XXkTwEufRA
— G (@TCC_Grouchy) April 18, 2019
Next on CNN… a panel of 9 people who hate Trump and pushed the Russia hoax will give their completely unbiased opinions on #MuellerReport.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 18, 2019
CNN has 8 people talking about this & they all vehemently agree with one another on every last thing. This has been a major part of the problem from the start. All humans are more likely to err or worse if they are insulated from challenge or dissent. It's inherently corrupting: pic.twitter.com/6U5aZqzgPn
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 18, 2019
Democrats & media tortured @realDonaldTrump, haunting his presidency, stalking him relentlessly, obsessing over every tidbit except those that tended to exonerate him. This was a hoax. Stories that implied collusion were fake news. Whole fiasco was a witch hunt based on bullshit.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) April 18, 2019
Just realized Barr is saying this man committed no crime and the media is chanting ‘crucify him crucify him’ and tomorrow is Good Friday
— Jack Posobiec ✝️ (@JackPosobiec) April 18, 2019
And a callback to a classic:
Just posting this video today for no reason whatsoever pic.twitter.com/0C9cD12Cao
— Jack Posobiec ✝️ (@JackPosobiec) April 18, 2019
For Democrats still clinging to the Trump Russia Collusion Fantasy, I’ll leave the final word to William Shatner:
Tags: 2016 Presidential Race, Bill Barr, CNN, Democrats, Donald Trump, Media Watch, Robert Mueller, Russia
My favorite meme, sent by my wife:
https://i.iheart.com/v3/re/new_assets/5c98dc94062484140d03a551
In case it doesn’t load, it’s a play on that line from Jaws: “we’re gonna need a bigger hoax”
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Any mention of Imran Awan and family? DNC gets hacked, Awans are everywhere, and the officials do everything they can NOT to connect the dots …