Mulvaney: Mueller report 'not designed' to exonerate Trump

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 03/31/19 09:39 AM EDT

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was "not designed" to exonerate President Trump.

“That is not what these documents do,” Mulvaney said when asked why Trump has claimed exoneration from obstruction charges, despite the report explicitly saying it did not exonerate him.

“When you do an investigation like this there is typically two outcomes: either criminal indictments come down or it just quietly goes away."

“These types of investigations are not designed to exonerate people.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/436615-mulvaney-mueller-report-not-designed-to-exonerate

[Iliyah]

1. WTF?

GOPers have read the "Mueller" report and they know Mueller did not exonerate shithole. Barr stepped beyond all justice boundaries.

[Botany]

2. They know that the Mueller report is damning and so now "they" are into:

The DoJ says you can't indict a sitting President and meantime Trump is whipping up
his uneducated, racist, sexist, and down right dumb fuck base.

[lagomorph777]

23. The spin and backtracking begins anew. These crooks know they're toast.

[RVN VET71]

34. Don't take much to whip them up.

Individual-1 has given them a salad of scapegoats and beaten the drums so hard and so often that all he has to do now is mention one of them, just one of his many scapegoats, and the base salivates like pavlovian dogs.

Meanwhile, the super-wealthy pretty much know a liar when they see one -- being as to how so many of them are inveterate liars themselves, which is how they became super-wealthy - but they also know that individual-1's their guy. He cuts their taxes, removes all hindering regulations from their poisonous enterprises, and helps them screw the poor and downtrodden as a way to get ever richer and richer.

Trump's supporters: drooling dogs and greedy pigs.

[DallasNE]

19. Rachael Was All Over This Friday

In case you missed it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017537141?fbclid=IwAR26gvz91cltFRgLrLZ7SL2GISVWGIfP571gkOBaPEBQ9tKqvtSJ0uEZwdo

[SKKY]

3. And here comes the slow, pre-meditated, narrative change...

....We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

[barbtries]

4. just read that book for the first time.

and i am so discombobulated, depressed and feeling so hopeless. a humongous coverup going on right in our faces and cannot seem to be stopped.

[SKKY]

5. Well, except that we do still have a free press, and that is what...

...Oceana lacked. As long as we have a free press, we'll be a free country. When freedom of the press ceases to exist, that is when we can kiss America goodbye.

[barbtries]

7. yes.

i had a protest sign professionally made after the election. it's the text of the 1st Amendment, along with the quote "a nation of laws, not men"

trump had made no secret of his desire to shitcan the 1st amendment and his propaganda, lies and rhetoric around this issue is extremely dangerous.

[pazzyanne]

8. How long will the press remain free

when a president of the United States writes "memos" to media companies making threats so they will now allow his dissenters on their forum. No president since Richard Nixon has been so open about their "enemy list".

[DallasNE]

21. Trump Is Like Nixon On Steroids

And a scoop of McCarthyism for measure. He is a clear and present danger.

[24601]

9. Eurasia? Never saw that coming! We are at war with East Asia, and always have been. I know

it's true from watching a documentary on Amazon Prime, which is streamed from the internet, which is infallible, especially fB.

[SKKY]

29. Eurasia. East Asia. Does it really matter to this Administration?

[BumRushDaShow]

31. You may have missed the

in their reply.

[lagomorph777]

24. It's doubleplusungood

[Pachamama]

28. Orwell was about 70 years away when he wrote it

He thought it was coming sooner in 1/2 the time - he thought it was coming in 35 years...

[C_U_L8R]

6. Keep digging

The more they resist revealing the full report, the guiltier they look. The idiots are snared in a trap of their own making.

[EarlG]

10. "Typically two outcomes"

Except in this one highly specific instance, where there is a third outcome — there are mountains of evidence pointing to the target’s guilt, but the investigators have a policy that he cannot be indicted under any circumstances.

The only institution capable of handling this third outcome is Congress, which is why they need the entire report in full.

[Grins]

11. True

“Mueller's investigation was "not designed" to exonerate President Trump.”

True. BARR’s 4-pager WAS!

[bluestarone]

12. YEA no kidding!

[jayschool2013]

18. WRONG!

It was 3.5 pages!

[DallasNE]

22. And The First Half Page

Was nothing but addressees. The body was barely 3 pages - less than a high school book review.

[Snellius]

13. Barr claimed (or implied) it wasn't to be sent to WH for exec review

So they've seen it. And they can tell AG what they think about it. And AG goes back to work cutting stuff out.

[True Dough]

14. I just watched Mulvaney on Jake Tapper's show

and I have to say, of all the Trump admin liars, Mulvaney is the most convincing. He doesn't trip over himself while distorting reality. If you didn't know better, you'd almost believe Trump cares about middle class and impoverished Americans.

[Mc Mike]

16. Was not designed to exonerate my boss, who currently is screaming how it completely exonerates him.

Shroedinger's cake.

[lagomorph777]

25. And Schroedinger's eating it too.

[Mc Mike]

33. Check.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. This surely will NOT help Mulvaney's standing with Trump

who has run around since the Barr letter claiming the report does exonerate him.

[Retrograde]

20. It must be really bad

The report must contain evidence of something illegal or at the very least highly embarassing, or else the minions wouldn't be protesting so loudly.

And how has Mulvaney managed to read it to know?

[lagomorph777]

26. He knows enough of the targets and witnesses to have a pretty good idea what's coming.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. No, but what Barr is doing with it, was.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Mulvaney had ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday

But has Trump's feces on his nose 24/7

[riversedge]

32. what a bunch of wordy words