Sal wrote:It is inexplicable that Mueller declined to make a charging recommendation on obstruction, and instead outsourced the decision to a Trump appointee.
The very point of having a special counsel is to insulate the investigator's decisions from the executive chain of command.
It makes no sense.
It may be many years before we fully understand what's happening to our politics before our very eyes in real time.
It's a fascinating time to be alive.
It's all pretty predictable, really. There's almost no way anyone's going to indict a sitting president on something so contentious unless they have absolutely incontrovertible proof... and that was nearly impossible to get. There were plenty of things leading in the direction of collusion -- not least of which Jr.'s doings -- but anything short of video footage of Trump spelling it out and handing the Russians a payoff was going to be deemed not-enough-evidence. Mueller just did his job and was careful not to declare anything that couldn't be proven beyond any benefit of doubt. And it was never really likely to be otherwise. It hardly exonerates Trump... it just says there wasn't sufficient evidence to make an airtight case. O. J. got off, too, but does anyone really think he wasn't guilty?
Collusion's never been the most interesting thing, anyway. That's gonna be money-laundering... and that investigation's still going.
Trump is clearly a Russian asset, whether he colluded during the election or not. The things he's done for Putin while in office stand for themselves. If Trump's
not working for the Russians, I don't really see anything he could have done differently for them if he were. Every move he's made -- sanction-lifting, military withdrawls, trade fuck-ups, ally alienation -- has been in favor of Russia and against America. He's opened every door for them, and you don't need any report to show that much -- it can be seen for itself.
Hopefully the full report will come out and we'll be able to see the real findings. Even though they couldn't cinch a case that
had to be cinched beyond all doubt if it were going to stand, I bet there'll be some interesting things in there. If Barr was willing to admit it "doesn't exonerate" the President, then there's bound to be plenty of ugly in it.
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