Let me be the first to say, if Trump releases the Mueller Report in full, I’m dead wrong about most of what I’m saying. I hope that happens, and that I’m just wrong. But if Trump doesn’t release the Report and starts to make excuses, the crisis is coming.
The Mueller Report will be the fulcrum of the crisis, of course. That much should now be clear to anyone paying attention.
Already it has been a week without the Administration releasing the Mueller Report – and they never will. Trump cannot release the Report to the Congress or the public, as it contains a detailed factual account of how he and his campaign coordinated and conspired with the Russians in their attack on our democracy and then took definite actions in attempt to obstruct the investigation.
We will learn this much in due course when Mueller eventually testifies in public before Congress and blows the lid off the Barr cover-up. That’s when the crisis will really ramp up.
Barr’s summary was a whitewash; the Report is political kryptonite and can never be released without permanently crippling Trump’s Presidency. So they won’t. Ever. It might be true that Mueller decided that Trump’s actions did not rise to the evidentiary standard required to indict Trump, as Barr claims, or Mueller may have concluded that he could not indict a sitting President, but the House would happily commence an impeachment inquiry (even if they don’t call it that…) on all the evidence Mueller has collected over the past 22 months.
Why do you think that Trump’s flying monkeys are calling for investigating the investigators? Why do you think the Trumpsters’s echo chambers are ringing with charges that the whole investigation was an attempted coup? They know they might be at the end of the line, and they are flailing for any angle that might help them chum the waters and survive the Mueller Report. They know what will happen if it’s released, and they are testing out a defense in case the Report is leaked: the whole Report is a deep state conspiracy to unseat the President and you, Mr. and Mrs. America, must stand up and defend the President against this unconstitutional conspiracy of spies, leakers, and Clinton/Obama liars. His base are eating that up with a spoon. And Trump will use the “coup” to justify larding the Federal law-enforcement bureaucracy with stooges who will protect him.
Congress has demanded the Report, but gotten only silence and excuses. Congress may subpoena it, but will get stonewalled. The Courts may order it released, but Trump will stand fast and try his luck in his newly-packed Supreme Court. Perhaps he may try to release only non-damaging fragments of the Report. He will assert executive privilege, Grand Jury secrecy, classified status, anything, to withhold the worst of it. He cannot release it, because it will end his Presidency. So he won’t. I don’t think this stance is ultimately sustainable for the next two years, but I’ve underestimated Trump before.
Trump’s currently testing how far he can push his “emergency” powers by making noises about “closing” the Southern Border. If he can get away with that, he’ll really be unleashed to try creative solutions to his problems.
Such a stand-off between branches of our co-equal government branches is the very stuff of Constitutional crises. At minimum, it will end with the public in the streets and a massive confrontation within our system of government that no one can predict how it might end. It might even result in violence from the very far-right criminal element among whom Trump has inspired a spike of White Nationalist terrorism in this country.
This confrontation over the Mueller Report will either end the Trump Presidency, or break our Constitutional system of government.
I can’t guarantee that our current House and Senate have what it takes to face down an unleashed and irresponsible President. It is possible that the confrontation will just drag on into the 2020 election, which would then become a referendum on whether the President has to continue following the Constitution; if Trump wins, he essentially becomes a dictator, if he loses, he’s going to jail. Not because of the Mueller Report, but because of his decades of lawless behavior that is now catching up with him in Courts across the country. He can’t afford to stop being President, because law enforcement is nipping at his heels. Michael Cohen’s testimony warning that we may never see another peaceful transfer of power might become a Cassandrian prophecy.
However the Constitution crumbles, one thing is for sure, the crisis is here and we’ve got to recognize that and prepare to back the forces of Constitutional governance in the coming confrontation.
The corruption of the Clintons you so handily ignore for years. The real Russian collusion was between Hillary, Comey, and Mueller. They all signed off on the Uranium One deal. You think we’re all chumps, don’t you? You wouldn’t think much of the Russians paying Bill Clinton many thousands of dollars for a speech whilst his wife was clinching the Uranium One deal. No, nothing funny there. With you constitution haters working so hard, I’m sure we’ll be like Venezuela before long. The information is out there, but you have your mind made up just like so many of the government worshipers on the left. You’re tyrants, you were taught it in school and you can’t shake it. What annoys you most is two things President Trump said- 1. We worship God, not the government. and 2. killing a child in the third trimester is wrong. You and your ilk do worship the government and your sacrament is abortion. You’re very hateful. I pray you don’t win. If you’re willing to kill innocent life, the death of a Republican voter is a given value.
We’ll leave this here, because we are not a bunch of ninnies who can’t handle a little push-back from our fellow citizens (unlike SeeingRedAZ, who deletes all contrary views in comments). Besides, I can’t make much sense of this particular troll… Uranium One, really? The Clintons haven’t had held an elective office in about 12 years! That’s the best you can do? Freshen up your game, buddy!
I don’t believe that Barr will hit that estimated date. If he does, the report he hands over will be masticated beyond coherence. In the mean-time the “coup” theory will grow and gestate in Trump’s base.
Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Friday that a redacted version of the special counsel’s report on the investigation into Russia’s election interference will be made public by mid-April. Barr Says Mueller Report Will Be Redacted and Made Public by Mid-April, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/barr-mueller-report.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
“Prosecutors from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and other law enforcement officials are scouring the report for sensitive information to black out before releasing it, including secret grand jury testimony [this can be waived by the court as occurred in Watergate], classified materials and information about other continuing federal investigations, Mr. Barr wrote.
Barr added that the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress.
He said the [redacted] report — which covers Moscow’s campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential race, whether any Trump associates conspired and whether the president obstructed the inquiry — was nearly 400 pages, plus supplements.
He said he planned to testify on Capitol Hill in early May, shortly after the report’s release, to discuss it with lawmakers.
“Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence,” Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement in response to Mr. Barr’s letter.'”
This delay is intended to allow the Trump propaganda machine to try to fix a public narrative before the redacted report is released. Previous special prosecutor/special investigator reports were released within days.
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