Damn! Robert Mueller is laying an egg!

[Baitball Blogger]

[C_U_L8R]

1. "Not my job"

What a weak excuse.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. We need to pay attention, because this is the Republican way of evading justice for their

own kind.

They sit on positions of decision-making, do an incompetent job, and walk off after throwing the mic down.

Democrats will have to find their balls.

[DonCoquixote]

32. THIS

and i dare say, they are aided by many so called "moderates" who realize that their asses were complicit. Media types, that was aimed at you, though not only you.

[procon]

2. It's Fitzmas!

He's basically just reading selected lines from his own report.

So what was the point if this ?

[uponit7771]

4. +1, to tell congress to subpoena him cause he said he wont say anything different in front of congre

[Baitball Blogger]

6. He's running away, so, not a patriot afterall.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. He's saying don't bother me anymore. I am done. I

Won't speak any more. He sure seemed very nervous.

[bdamomma]

17. maybe he is being threatened.

or may be he should just retire from the Justice Dept. and be a private citizen.

[gldstwmn]

19. He's telling Congress they need to impeach.

And now I know that what Wolff wrote in his book was true. Jesus.

[unblock]

35. the point was to say i'm done, do what you want but don't bother me.

i wash my hands of these proceedings.

[spanone]

5. "If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so"

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Yes, but he's putting the load on the House.

We're fucked. We need Republicans to do the patriotic thing.

[Caliman73]

21. It is the House's constitutional responsibility to carry that load.

He said very clearly that it was not the job of the Department of Justice to indict the president. It is the oversight responsibility of specifically the House, but also the Senate. The House needs to continue investigations, get access to the unredacted report, then to the underlying evidence that informed the report. They need to question investigators and expose all of the dirt that Trump actually did. As the public hears more and more, the pressure will be on the Senate to do their job and if they don't they will pay a price.

[LiberalFighter]

27. He is clearly mistaken. If it is not the job of the Justice Department

to investigate and charge crimes then what is the point of the Justice Department?

[Caliman73]

49. He did not say that.

He said that it wasn't possible to do so against a sitting president. He clearly stated that if there was nothing there he would have said so. He was bound by the policy which is presumably supported by the Constitution, to not make recommendations but to lay out the information to Congress, who takes the information and decides to impeach or let things go.

This is exactly what happened during Watergate. The AGs wrote the report and gave it to Congress. Then you have the asshole Ken Starr who did not follow due process and released the report to the public for clearly political reasons and dishonored the office of the Special Counsel.

[LiberalFighter]

53. There is nothing in the Constitution that supports DOJ policy.

[Maru Kitteh]

55. He is however bound and restricted by the policy since he was working under the DoJ. He

did not have an option, independently, to work outside of that policy.

[Caliman73]

58. It is ambiguous and subject to interpretation

Here is a foreword to a symposium on the topic.

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2573&context=facpub

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Let's make tshirts now!

[spanone]

12. Amen!

[LakeArenal]

33. Egads!!! This is a cluster f. And we are the cluster.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

51. Lol. Hey Clusterhead! :)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Nope. He is angry at tRump & has gone as far as the law allows. Basicly said "Impeach him then indic

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Indict post term? Would we need our own ag

To do that? Like 2020?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Yup. Got to win 2020 even if tRump not there. He might not be. . . . nt

[ADX]

11. Come on, is anyone really surprised by this travesty?

...The best clue that this was going to be a big bunch of nothingness came when the AG/White House approved/allowed him to make this bullshit statement in the first place...

[Baitball Blogger]

16. He basically said that Trump would be prosecuted for obstruction, IF he wasn't president.

Where does that leave us? The House must act or Trump gets away with it because Trump owns the Feds.

[ADX]

38. Yeah, "IF" is the biggest word in the dictionary...

...We can only hope that the House Democrats stay on Chump like stink on shit and hound his ass up until the very last second he leaves or is kicked out of office...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Far cry from Comey inserting all those personal

Opinions like Hillary was a sloppy record keeper. She was not charged with anything. Maybe someone on the team will speak out or leak

[ADX]

42. Right...

...He didn't say shit we haven't heard before and I'd bet a dollar to a donut that no one on the SP team leaks a damn thing. Apart from Chump tweeting, screeching, and taking a victory lap, it's a wrap at this point and our only hope lies with the House dems...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

57. Yep. Watching fox taped. You can tell they are

Moving toward the mantra...nothing new. Amazing how people can choose to ignore what their guy does.

[kentuck]

14. I didn't hear it that way?

He never declared him innocent.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Nope. You heard right K

[Baitball Blogger]

28. We needed something more to get the House moving, and he failed to add anything

we didn't already knew.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. I'm with you. Mueller said as clearly as he could: "Wake up citizens! You gotta imeach 1st, then

Then indict.

Folks, read his last sentence again; something like "The Russians interfered with our elections. This is something all US citizens should take seriously."

[kentuck]

40. Yep.

You were listening.

[Hoyt]

15. Wimped out. Told us absolutely nothing that was not in Barr's 4 page letter, providing cover for

trump and Barr.

[LanternWaste]

41. You keep repeating the same allegation.

yet fail to support that allegation with any meaningful evidence of such.

(FYI: nuance doesn't fit on a bumper sticker, not context on a t-shirt slogan)

[Hoyt]

47. Read Barr's letter -- Russia interfered, Muellers' team could not indict or exonerate trump.

It's all there.

Didn't think I needed to provide a citation. But since you appear to need it, here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/24/us/politics/barr-letter-mueller-report.html

It says:

--Russia interferred in election,
--Mueller could not indict trump because of policy,
--Mueller's investigation could not "exonerate trump" on Obstruction.

All of that is in Barr's letter from March 24, 2019. That letter did not spur Congress to act, why do you think Muellers BS today will?

[Doremus]

18. Interesting body language. There were a lot of statements either didn't agree with or knew were lies

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. I actually thought he was gonna cry...he seemed

So nervous

[triron]

46. Yes I noticed immediately. He seem stilted. He was not himself.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Is impeachment in the egg?

That's what I seemed to gain of it.

He basically just restated his report in verbal form.

The report does not exonerate Trump, so.....

[Sunsky]

25. I don't think so

His words were powerful.

[Baitball Blogger]

29. Look, those on DU will look hard to twist what he said to meet the objectives we're looking for,

but nothing he said will convince the people we need to get on our side.

[Sunsky]

39. Mueller statement wasn't made to convince anyone.

He did his investigation, he gave a detailed report. He is telling Congress to do it's job. The ball is in their court now. Stop using Mueller as excuse to stall.

[Baitball Blogger]

44. Nancy Pelosi moves only when information goes beyond a reasonable doubt.

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I don't think Mueller moved the marker farther than where it is today. IF he had added more information about the unredacted parts of the report, that might have helped. But, he didn't.

I'm not trying to stop impeachment. Quite the opposite. I'm frustrated.

[Sunsky]

50. This Democrat loves to exercise her freedom of thought

Nancy Pelosi isn't always right. IMO she is wrong with not calling for impeachment hearings immediately after the redacted Mueller report was released. We don't need beyond a reasonable doubt to have hearings. Some of us are tired of the excuses. Most of the people I speak with, believe that the Democrats are powerless against Trump. We have to change that perception.

[Nevermypresident]

54. I'm am getting the same feedback from my family, friends, colleagues.

It's time, irregardless of what the Senate does.

[Baitball Blogger]

59. +1

[inwiththenew]

30. Same $hit we all already know

They can't prove he did commit a crime but they also can't prove he didn't. Gee thanks. I'm not sure why we needed this press conference to rehash this.

[Baitball Blogger]

34. Right. He didn't say anything that would convince Trump supporters.

[LakeArenal]

36. As usual... Very disappointing

[Greybnk48]

37. The Trumpsters are toast.

Obstruction, illegal coordination with the Russians, whole Trump crime family is corrupt and guilty of criminal activity, as are all of those in his close "orbit."

IMPEACH NOW!

[bluedigger]

43. An egg can hatch into a golden goose with proper incubation.

[Baitball Blogger]

45. Let's hope.

[WyattKansas]

48. Did anyone else hear Mueller say that...

He was also very limited on investigating Trump and how far they investigated him by regulations and policy?

If so, that alone is a ticking time bomb for Trump.

[Baitball Blogger]

56. The House is going to have to find some way to find its will and enforce its powers of

investigation. Because it's clear now, the Republicans are not going to help.

[tavernier]

52. Seriously?