So Mueller published his report and it went right into the biased hands of Attorney General William Barr. Barr has now written a letter to congress explaining what he got out of the report. It’s a four-page letter synopsizing twenty-two months of work. In this letter Barr comes to the conclusion that President Donald Trump is not guilty of collusion (which is not a crime anyway) or obstruction of justice, or anything else. But even based on Barr’s letter, that’s not what the report really says.
Despite that, the GOP world is celebrating and the Democratic world is screaming rape. So what else is new?
Let’s look at the whole deal and see what can be concluded from it. First, Mueller wasn’t supposed to indict anyone. He was supposed to investigate and turn his results over to the AG, who is supposed to turn them over to congress. Turn them over, not interpret them and not edit them. Don’t forget, the DOJ rule says they can’t indict a sitting president so Mueller really wasn’t in a position to indict Trump. No one is until he leaves office and then it will probably fall to SDNY to get him on real crimes like tax evasion, money laundering and any number of things that everyone knows the Trump organization has been doing for years.
But right now, the next move is up to Barr. He must provide the entire report to congress or the House will subpoena it, Barr and Mueller. Many of those in the House want to know if there is information in it that will encourage them to impeach. But many don’t. Most realize that since getting the Senate to convict would be all but impossible, impeachment would be nothing but a dumb waste of time and failure to convict would only give the Fat Liar in the White House something else to crow about.
Those who are whining about Barr are being ingenuous. He was appointed to do exactly what he is doing. He is just another crooked element in a criminal administration.
Those who are whining about Mueller never understood exactly what his franchise was. He wasn’t supposed to convict Trump. He was supposed to gather evidence about the Russian interference in the 2016 election and evidence about administrative wrongdoing involving that. None of his indictments had that as their basis. They were all about crimes committed during and involving the investigation, not about stuff that happened regarding the Russians. It was almost all about staffers lying to Mueller and his people. All except Gates and Manafort. Mueller got them on stuff that had nothing to do with Russian interference but rather on business they did with foreign powers that broke another set of laws entirely, and oh yeah, lying to Mueller about that stuff.
Mueller has, undoubtedly, passed enough material along to SDNY and the other jurisdictions that are already involved in tracking Trump and his coven of crooks that they will be able to follow Trump up to the day he walks out of the White House and be waiting with a small set of cuffs.
The problem right now is, Barr’s statement seems to have come to the incorrect conclusion that because Mueller did not indict, there was no criminal activity. Such a conclusion inedicates that Barr doesn’t know the difference between real evidence that doesn’t reach the plateau of beyond reasonable doubt and real evidence that does, a strange and disturbing place for the guy who currently heads our criminal justice system.
When Barr says that there is no evidence of obstruction one must conclude that he doesn’t watch TV. If he did, at least at some point, he would almost had to have stumbled across the Fat Liar doing exactly that. Firing Comey, openly discussing the firing of Mueller, blabbering about pardons, whining about “no collusion,” “no obstruction,” or “no conspiracy ” hundreds of times, even as he wailed “witch hunt,” over and over ad nausea. It’s impossible to watch all that and not know the Fat Liar was trying to obstruct the investigation.
For those of us who have reached adulthood and learned to think logically, there is a point where we know something even though we are unable to prove it. There are things we are able to discern simply because a number of events have transpired which point to a fact being true, despite there being no direct proof of it being so. We don’t use this knowledge in our criminal justice system because there we need proof beyond reasonable doubt, which also often includes unreasonable doubt.
We know Trump is a liar because he has already proven it by lying in public and on TV. We know Trump is a criminal because he has already pled guilty in the Trump University scam. Yes he avoided the felon label that would have kept him from being President because he was able to manipulate the legal system, but the plea that kept him out of jail also tells us he is a crook. That’s the key to the fact that Trump was never interviewed by Muller or his staff. There is evidence that Trump’s lawyers have told Muller’s team that if forced to testify, Trump would take the Fifth. Yes, he’s entitled to do that to but that is precisely something that Trump has always declared was proof of guilt. He’s on TV saying that anyone who takes the Fifth is guilty and guilt is the only reason anyone would take the Fifth. So where does that leave us?
In the same manner, when we hear someone deny something they haven’t even been accused of, we know or at the very least, are extremely confident that they are, in fact guilty of the very thing they are denying.
So it has been with Trump. As soon as we began investigating the Russian interference in our elections, long before his name began to be whispered as a co-conspirator, Trump started denying that he had anything to do with it. Those denials are what made most people start looking at him. Those and subsequent denials are what have led most people down the path to his guilt and even though we seem to be lacking proof of his involvement, we do know that he is involved. That’s how life works.
Trump’s life up to the White House is so rife with criminal and just plain immoral activity that we come ready to accept almost any wrongdoing as his normal modus operandi. Cons, scams, cheats, bribes, lies; all have been a way of life for Donald Trump. So, the logical thinking goes, why would one expect a 70 year-old man to change his ways just because he changed his address. One doesn’t!
Donald Trump has always been a bad guy. From stiffing the people who worked for him, to bribing building inspectors to overlook dangerous conditions, to sleazing around the dressing rooms of teenaged girls to leer at them in dishabille, to selling useless degrees from a phony colleges, Trump has never changed his spots. Who is dumb enough to think he would do that now?
Once a crook, always a crook! Leopards don’t change their spots! How many of these silly clichés do I have to throw out there to make a point? We know Trump is guilty because we know Trump. We don’t have to prove it in court to know we have to deny him another term. If SDNY or some other venue can put him in jail after he leaves the White House, so much the better, but the important thing is to get him out of the White House and that goal is best served by the Democrats spending their time blocking his brain dead attempts at killing the environment and starving the poor and solidifying their plans for the next election.
This country will survive one term of mismanagement by Donald Trump. It might not survive two.