Still the man who deserves our hatred

Trump Declares Exoneration, and a War on His Enemies

Minutes after the release of Mr. Barr’s letter, the White House issued a statement in which the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction.”

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The White House followed that up with a statement that highlighted three passages from Mr. Barr’s letter: that the special counsel found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia; that Mr. Barr found no actions that constituted “obstructive conduct,” and that the Justice Department did not find evidence sufficient to “establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.”

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The White House quickly went on the offensive, holding a briefing call for a group of surrogates after the letter was released. 

In an email sent by the White House, Mr. Trump’s surrogates were given a detailed list of talking points, including the falsehood that the report served as a “complete and total exoneration” for Mr. Trump.

The email, which was obtained by The New York Times, said “the president and the administration fully cooperated with the investigation,” which is also not entirely true. 

Mr. Trump declined to ever speak in person with special counsel investigators despite a lengthy negotiation process.

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Despite Mr. Trump’s threat to go after those involved in the investigation, Mr. Gidley said he had no plans to ask the attorney general to investigate Democrats.

Mr. Gidley sought to cast the results of the investigation as “a great day for the American people. 

"Their vote for Donald Trump was vindicated.”

He described an ebullient Mr. Trump, who he said spent the flight chatting with staff members, making phone calls and watching television. 

In addition to Mr. Mulvaney and himself, he said Dan Scavino, Mr. Trump’s social media aide, was in the president’s office on the plane.

Other staff members delighted in watching the coverage on MSNBC, a rare change from Fox News on the presidential aircraft.

“He’s feeling very good,” Mr. Gidley said. “He’s in a really good mood. He’s just very happy with how it all turned out.”


As Air Force One arrived outside Washington, the president was in the cockpit for the landing.

He and his campaign were apparently fully exonerated of "collusion", but as regards obstruction of justice the situation is more ambiguous - though it sounds eerily close to what Comey finally had to say about Hillary's use of her private email server, as the Duce's defenders will no doubt point out in coming days.

Writes Barr,

The Special Counsel states that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

No doubt the Democrats can look into that further, and into a good many other things.

They should certainly demand the full report and make public as much as can be.

And not everybody shares Mueller's fastidiousness or Barr's theory about what is obstruction.

But they need to be wary lest the bulk of the public outside the Republican Party begins to agree with the Duce's characterization of what they are doing as a witch hunt - some might rather think a fishing expedition - aimed at finding some, any, means of taking down a legitimately elected president they deeply despise.

We are all convinced that Bozo and his family are in fact a crime family guilty of many things for which some or all of them may belong in prison.

But that doesn't mean we can prove it.

And that is why organized crime exists and prospers.

It sucks, but there we are.

Unless somebody can get him for a tax crime, maybe.

It was good enough for Eliot Ness . . . .