Trump refers to Mueller probe as attempted 'coup,' says 'I didn't need a gun' to fend it off
Mueller softballed him, his family, and his campaign leadership.
Rosenstein, in tears, promised "I can land the plane, I'm on your team, I give the investigation credibility".
Barr whitewashed Bozo and everyone, and started the counterattack, throwing shade on Obama for not going public (reportedly, McConnell threatened he and the GOP would call it what Trump has always called it, fake news, a lie to take Trump down with or at least delegitimize him), which Trump and Rosenstein and others are echoing loudly.
So what if Mueller and Rosenstein just caved in to the bullying, as Trump is now apparently bragging, the brag of course embedded in outrageous lies?
President Donald Trump on Friday accused Democrats and the U.S. intelligence community of attempting a "coup" in the form of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and said he didn't "need a gun" to fend it off.
"They tried for a coup, it didn't work out so well. And I didn't need a gun for that one, did I?" Trump told the crowd of gun-rights advocates at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis on Friday.
"All was taking place at the highest levels in Washington, D.C. You've been watching, you've been seeing.”
"Spying, surveillance. Trying for an overthrow," Trump continued.
"And we caught them, we caught them. Who would have thought in our country?"
How did decent Italians feel when they heard that evil clown, Mussolini, giving some evil, evil speech?
Decent Germans about Hitler, screaming about Jews?
Our own malevolent clown, the evil dog shit in the White House, makes my stomach hurt.
This is interesting.
Fox News analyst says Mueller report proves Trump did obstruct justice
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano has argued that Donald Trump did obstruct justice, with “unlawful, defenseless and condemnable” behavior related to the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
In the opinion column Did President Trump obstruct justice?, the host of the Liberty File on Fox Nation argued that the Mueller report illustrates clear and intentional obstruction of justice, constituting legal grounds for impeachment.
Napolitano, a former superior court judge in New Jersey, thereby contradicted the attorney general, William Barr, who decided there was insufficient evidence to establish that the president had committed obstruction of justice.
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Napolitano disagreed with the special counsel’s decision not to make a determination on obstruction of justice.
“Mueller laid out at least a half-dozen crimes of obstruction committed by Trump,” he wrote, “from asking former deputy national security adviser KT McFarland to write an untruthful letter about the reason for Flynn’s chat with Kislyak, to asking [former campaign aide] Corey Lewandowski and then White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller and McGahn to lie about it, to firing Comey to impede the FBI’s investigations, to dangling a pardon in front of Michael Cohen to stay silent, to ordering his aides to hide and delete records.”
“The essence of obstruction,” he wrote, “is deception or diversion – to prevent the government from finding the truth.”
Napolitano also claimed Mueller knew Barr would block any indictment of Trump along obstruction grounds because the attorney general “has a personal view of obstruction at odds with the statute itself”.
Barr’s view, according to Napolitano, is that obstruction can only occur if someone is impeding an investigation into a crime they committed.
“Thus, in this narrow view, because Trump did not commit the crime of conspiracy with the Russians, it was legally impossible for Trump to have obstructed the FBI investigation of that crime,” Napolitano wrote.
He concluded that though such a position is at odds with broad law enforcement opinion and “wrong”, it provides Congress the opportunity to use Mueller’s report as grounds for impeachment, which would be a question of political viability, not evidence.
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