Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has turned in his report on alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election and “no further indictments are expected.”
Mueller managed indictments or convictions of a handful of President Donald Trump associates for either process crimes (lying to the FBI) or unrelated, pre-campaign issues like tax evasion, plus some 20 Russian hackers that will never face a jury. Neither President Trump himself nor any of his aides were indicted for Russian collusion.
For Democrats who relentlessly hyped the Muelller investigation at every opportunity, breathlessly predicting that it would “take down” Trump and his entire administration, this is the biggest wet fart of a disappointment since “Fitzmas.” That was the Patrick Fitzgerald investigation over the “outing” of non-secret agent Valerie Plame that equally breathless liberals predicted would take down the entire Bush43 Administration. In both cases Democrats indulged in naked wish fulfillment rather than sober analysis in anticipating the likely outcome.
Roger Simon notes that the media destroyed their credibility over the Russian collusion fantasy:
With only a few exceptions — Fox News, the editorial pages (not the front pages) of the Wall Street Journal, and a handful of websites — the better part of the American media has spent the last two years fulminating about Trump-Russia collusion we now know never existed.
Actually, we always knew that, but finally, it’s official. It was always a bunch of — excuse the expression — trumped up baloney that made no sense except to those who wished so deeply to believe it was true.
Which makes the people who were doing that fulminating — media, politicians and (usually retired) intelligence figures, who were, as is becoming increasingly clear, betraying the American Constitutional system with impunity — sick and evil.
That may sound extreme, but it’s the all-too-obvious truth. What they did is unforgivable, particularly since few, if any of them, will have the honesty or basic morals to apologize. Some, however, may go to jail.
The provenance of what happened also couldn’t be more obvious. People who considered themselves elite guardians of our country were so appalled by the possible election, and then the actual election, of the “barbarian” Donald Trump, they thought nothing of breaking the law and then exploiting it to bring Trump down. In so doing, consciously or unconsciously, they expressed their utter contempt for roughly half of their fellow citizens, not to mention their disdain for the electoral process and the law many of them swore to uphold.
It was a conspiracy and, worse yet, a conspiracy ignited and carried out from within the FBI and the Department of Justice. Nothing could be more dangerous to a democratic society than that. How high this conspiracy went is still somewhat unclear. I say “somewhat” because the likelihood of it having reached into the White House of the previous administration is great. It’s hard to imagine how it could have happened otherwise.
These conspirators all worked in tandem, through leaks or directly, with the aforementioned media that has disgraced itself beyond words. The reputation of this media, never terrific, is in tatters and being washed, deservedly, down the drain. Anyone who believes a word they say from here on in should have his/her or zhe’s head examined.
In the interests of schadenfreude, here’s a collection of Mueller-related tweets from last night:
Nailed it, bro. https://t.co/OxzpuTVkwN
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 23, 2019
Now we know for certain that Adam Schiff (the saddest man in America right now) was DEAD WRONG when he claimed there was "direct evidence" that Trump colluded w Russia. Eric Swalwell was DEAD WRONG when he claimed indictments were "coming." Hang your heads in shame, congressmen!
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) March 22, 2019
Adam Schiff is the Brian Stelter of Eric Swalwells.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) March 23, 2019
#MuellerReport pic.twitter.com/xyoP4bD8Hs
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) March 23, 2019
Let's recap when a democrat is in the Whitehouse potentially damming stories are dropped on Fridays because the complicit media hopes no one notices.
When a Republican is in the Whitehouse, nothing burgers drop on Fridays for the same reason. #MuellerReport
— Rick Robinson (@RowdyRick73) March 23, 2019
boom.. 👇👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/QIcqx9QhWX
— #DeOpressoLiber ❌Liberty & FREE Speech ❌ (@Crossthread8D) March 22, 2019
The Mueller Investigation is over and there will be no more indictments…
It's ok Libs, Everybody Hurts… Sometimes. pic.twitter.com/p2FCcCf8Dv
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) March 23, 2019
Soooo when do you plan on deleting your account? :) https://t.co/SRVrICHoiZ
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) March 23, 2019
— Matt’s Idea Shop (@MattsIdeaShop) March 22, 2019
Need your sound on for this one:
#CollusionTruthers pic.twitter.com/Ie0B7WoAiX
— Feisty☀️Floridian (@Feisty_FL) March 23, 2019
So basically all Mueller did is clean out the riff raff from Trump’s last campaign forcing him to hire better people for the next one making him a stronger candidate. My god Q was right the entire time.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 22, 2019
Compare what cable hosts (let's leave them unnamed) & Democratic operatives spent two years claiming this would lead to – the imprisonment of Don, Jr., Jared, even Trump on conspiracy-with-Russia charges – to what it actually produced. A huge media reckoning is owed.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
Don't even try to pretend the point of the Mueller investigation from the start wasn't to obtain prosecutions of Americans guilty of conspiring with Russia to influence the outcome of the election or that Putin controlled Trump through blackmail. Nobody will believe your denials. pic.twitter.com/svIIz3WMgn
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
Are we now ready to rid ourselves of the thrilling espionage fantasy that Trump is controlled by Putin and the Kremlin using blackmail? There's no way Robert Mueller would have gone 18 months without telling anyone about this if it were true, right? How could that be justified?
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
GIving up these exciting conspiracy theories about international blackmail & convening panels to decipher all the genius hidden maneuvers of Mueller will be bad for cable ratings, book sales & the Patreon accounts of online charlatans. But it'll be very healthy in all other ways.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
The desperate attempts to salvage something from this debacle by the Mueller dead-enders are just sad. Yes, the public hasn't read the Mueller report. But we *know* he ended his investigation without indicting a single American for conspiring with Russia to influence the election
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
If Mueller found evidence that Putin controls Trump & forces him to act against US interests & in favor of Russia – not just with a pee-pee tape but with financial blackmail – what could possibly justify keeping that a secret through the end of the investigation? It's ludicrous.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
And to be clear: I've urged a full investigation into these Trump/Russia claims from the start, from before Mueller was appointed, with full disclosure. I still favor that – precisely to end the reckless speculation to which we've been endlessly subjected https://t.co/IB3u4hyA8o
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 22, 2019
Can we get it any clearer than this?? From the NYT: https://t.co/47APcLxf0l pic.twitter.com/gvtDLGblSp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
Trump is demanding full disclosure of the Mueller report – for reasons that are pretty obvious. Let it be seen. https://t.co/47APcLxf0l pic.twitter.com/0ACEegdjEi
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
How – if you're an MSNBC viewer (or consumer of similar online content) – can you not be angry & disoriented having been fed utter bullshit like this for 2 straight years with basically no dissent allowed? Just listen to what they were telling you to believe & how false it was 👆
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
"Oh gosh – turns out that if you hire ex-CIA Directors to be 'news analysts,' they'll abuse our airwaves to disseminate self-serving disinformation" – what MSNBC executives would be saying right now if they were honest & self-reflecting (and therefore aren't saying): pic.twitter.com/4Iu4JAJ4mf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 23, 2019
So, Hillary really did lose the election all on her own. #MuellerReport pic.twitter.com/wouZQVsGwr
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) March 23, 2019
Happy Muellermas, everyone!
Tags: 2016 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, Fitzmas, Glenn Greenwald, Media Watch, MSNBC, Robert Mueller, Roger Simon