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Niggas is pissed on the left, lol.

I been saying just shut the hell up until we get some actionable evidence.

Now if this report is lightly redacted and doesn't offer any additional evidence of wrongdoing by the president, they're going to be even worse off and Trump even stronger.

They need to move on if there's nothing crazy in the report. Don't even interview Mueller.
 
Muller took the cowards way out and left earlier determination to Trumps appointed protector.. Which set the narrative. Intent was clear as far as obstruction goes. .
 
folks been waiting on a bombshell regarding this report like

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That the report's findings don't meet the high burden of proof needed in order to charge with whatever crime collusion would fall under doesn't mean it has no evidence of collusion at all.
 
So basically he didn't press because they went with the DOJ "guidelines" president can not be indicted

One some "for the good of the country bullshit"

This was at the top of Millers mind the whole time
 
Playmaker88 said:
So basically he didn't press because they went with the DOJ "guidelines" president can not be indicted

One some "for the good of the country bullshit"

This was at the top of Millers mind the whole time
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That’s the thing the office of the president is an institution more than about the individual
 
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckr...oth-sides-saw-mutual-benefit-in-trump-victory

Mueller Did Not Establish ‘Collusion,’ But Says Trump Knew Russian Meddling Helped

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish that the Trump campaign and the Russian government worked together for the President’s victory in 2016, a redacted version of the Mueller report states.


The special counsel wrote that while the Russian government recognized that it stood to gain from a Trump presidency, and while the Trump campaign understood that it would benefit from the Russian interference campaign, it could not find evidence establishing a conspiracy between the two.

“Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” the report reads.

Mueller defined collusion as a conspiracy in which the two sides would have coordinated with each other.

The conclusion is a stunning result for the President, who has long denied that his campaign colluded with Russia. However, the redacted report goes on to detail a variety of situations in which both sides appeared to perceive that they would benefit from such a conspiracy, without finding that there was evidence to support an assertion that such a conspiracy took place.

In its top-line conclusions, the redacted report suggests that the Trump campaign “showed interest” in Wikileaks’ release of information, and that an individual whose identity is redacted did “forecast to senior Campaign officials that Wikileaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”

Mueller goes on to describe interactions between Trump campaign officials and associates starting in 2015 and continuing until after the election, providing detail on a number of interactions that had long been the subject of speculation.

The redacted report also states that while Mueller found “numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government” and the Trump campaign, the evidence was “not sufficient” to file any unregistered foreign agent charges or campaign finance charges associated with Wikileaks’s release of hacked emails — an item of potential value to the Trump campaign.

At the same time, the redacted report suggests that another element of Russia’s meddling — social media influence operations conducted by the Internet Research Agency — occurred without the participation of the Trump campaign.

The redacted report also provides a caveat on the evidence that Mueller was able to obtain.

The special counsel notes that some individuals “associated with the Trump Campaign” had “deleted relevant communications” or used encrypted apps that rendered the information inaccessible. “In such cases, the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts,” the redacted report reads.

“The Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report,” the document reads.
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Nothing was ever going to happen to Trump while he is the sitting president. Mueller shit damn near just a smoke screen to take folks eyes off of other shit and just keep people talking.

A rare deterrent to limitless drug price increases may die under Trump

The Commerce draft plan would prohibit the government from suspending a drugmaker’s exclusive patent over excessive pricing. It targets an obscure, never-used provision of a 40-year-old law called Bayh-Dole that is supposed to protect taxpayer interests in government-funded inventions, such as drugs discovered using federal grant money.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...50dc7b82693_story.html?utm_term=.46d3c12f9d07

Damn shit wild out here. Drug companies and universities can take tax-payer money develop drugs. Then price gouge tax-payers for the shit our money just funded them for.
 
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Trump Told Flynn To Get Deleted Clinton Emails, Mueller Report Says

After publicly calling for Russia to hack a cache of 30,000 deleted emails belonging to Hillary Clinton, Trump told Michael Flynn to find them, the redacted Mueller report states.

“Trump asked individuals affiliated with his Campaign to find the deleted Clinton emails,” the document reads. The redacted report goes on to cite FBI interviews with Flynn as saying that Trump “made this request repeatedly, and Flynn subsequently contacted multiple people in an effort to obtain the emails.”

Those two people were investment banker and GOP activist Peter Smith – who later committed suicide – and Senate staffer Barbara Leeden.

The report says that Leeden, who was on the staff of Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), began her efforts to obtain hacked Clinton emails before Flynn asked, in December 2015.

She purportedly emailed Smith with a “25-page proposal” saying that Clinton’s email server – the subject of fervent speculation in the right-wing media at the time – was “in all likelihood, breached long ago.”

Leeden purportedly adds in the proposal that “even if a single email was recovered and the providence [sic] of that email was a foreign service, it would be catastrophic to the Clinton campaign.”

Smith initially declined to participate in Leeden’s campaign, but after Trump’s statement, the redacted report reads, the banker “created a company, raised tens of thousands of dollars, and recruited security experts and business associates” to try to access the emails.

Smith created a recipient list for a series of emails and documents he sent out, which included Trump campaign official Sam Clovis, among others. The banker repeatedly claimed to have been in contact with Russian operatives about accessing the stolen emails; the report suggests that investigators were unable to verify that he was being truthful or if he had succeeded in establishing contacts with Russian hackers.

During Smith’s efforts, Leeden continued on her own campaign to get the emails, claiming at one point in the summer of 2016 “to have obtained a trove of emails (from what she described as the “dark web”) that purported to be the deleted Clinton emails.”

“Ledeen wanted to authenticate the emails and solicited contributions to fund that effort,” the redacted report reads. “Erik Prince provided funding to hire a tech advisor to ascertain the authenticity of the emails.”

The document states that Prince later testified to the special counsel that “the emails were not authentic.”
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Trump Said More Damaging Info ‘Would Be Coming’ In 2016

The un-redacted portions of the Mueller report on the Trump campaign’s Wikileaks outreach paint a picture of a campaign with foreknowledge about the release of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta.

In general, the report confirms a public perception that Trump’s campaign was extremely interested in, and made attempts to benefit from, hacked Democratic emails that would be published by Wikileaks.

“The Trump Campaign showed interest in WikiLeaks’s release of hacked materials throughout the summer and fall of 2016,” reads the top of the report’s subheading titled “Trump Campaign and the Dissemination of Hacked Materials.”

Much of what follows is blacked out with the annotation “Harm to Ongoing Matter,” likely due to the open and ongoing case against Roger Stone, who long bragged of a connection to Wikileaks and foreknowledge of its email dumps.

Perhaps most tantalizingly, after a redacted portion of a sentence, the report stated that shortly after a call with an unidentified person, “candidate Trump told [Manafort deputy Rick] Gates that more releases of damaging information would be coming.”

Trump, the report said earlier, citing Gates, was “generally frustrated that the Clinton emails had not been found.”

Then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Mueller’s office, the report stated, that after Wikileaks’ initial July release of stolen DNC emails, “Manafort also spoke with candidate Trump” — but the rest of the sentence is redacted.

“Manafort also [redacted] wanted to be kept apprised of any developments with WikiLeaks and separately told Gates to keep in touch [redacted] about future WikiLeaks releases.”

It’s difficult to say with certainly, but this section may be referring to what an earlier Mueller court filing referred to as occurring sometime after the July 22 email release: “a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE” about what else WikiLeaks had.

Citing Gates, the report stated the Trump campaign “was planning a press strategy, a communications campaign, and messaging based on the possible release of Clinton emails by WikiLeaks.”
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Mueller Did Not Establish ‘Collusion,’ But Notes Lies, Deleted Comms ‘Impaired’ Probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish that the Trump campaign and the Russian government worked together for the President’s victory in 2016, a redacted version of the Mueller report states.


The special counsel wrote that while the Russian government recognized that it stood to gain from a Trump presidency, and while the Trump campaign understood that it would benefit from the Russian interference campaign, it could not find evidence establishing a conspiracy between the two.

“Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” the report reads.

Yet, Mueller’s redacted report also notes that the investigation was “materially impaired” by witnesses lying, invoking their Fifth Amendment rights, and perhaps most notably, by witnesses deleting emails or using encryption apps, preventing the Mueller team from reviewing all communications. Because of this, the Mueller team “was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts,” according to the redacted report.

“The Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report,” the document reads.

The redacted Mueller report notes that “collusion” is not an offense in the U.S. code and specifies that investigators looked for proof of a conspiracy in which the two sides would have coordinated with each other.

The conclusion that there was no coordination is a stunning result for the President, who has long denied that his campaign colluded with Russia. However, the redacted report goes on to detail a variety of situations in which both sides appeared to perceive that they would benefit from such a conspiracy, without finding that there was evidence to support an assertion that such a conspiracy took place.

In its top-line conclusions, the redacted report suggests that the Trump campaign “showed interest” in Wikileaks’ release of information, and that an individual whose identity is redacted did “forecast to senior Campaign officials that Wikileaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”

Mueller goes on to describe interactions between Trump campaign officials and associates starting in 2015 and continuing until after the election, providing detail on a number of interactions that had long been the subject of speculation.

The redacted report also states that while Mueller found “numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government” and the Trump campaign, the evidence was “not sufficient” to file any unregistered foreign agent charges or campaign finance charges associated with Wikileaks’s release of hacked emails — an item of potential value to the Trump campaign.

The redacted report additionally suggests that another element of Russia’s meddling — social media influence operations conducted by the Internet Research Agency — occurred without the participation of the Trump campaign.
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