It means they're lunatics

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

He's not confused, he's ignorant

President Donald Trump on Thursday morning revealed some profound confusion about the Constitution he’s sworn to preserve, protect, and defend — particularly the parts that detail how a commander in chief can be removed from office.

Asked during a Q&A session with reporters whether he’s concerned about getting impeached, Trump said, “I can’t imagine the courts allowing it.”

[...]

As Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic explained last month when Trump posted tweets suggesting he’d appeal his impeachment to the Supreme Court, the courts have nothing to do with it. Impeachment is a congressional process.

  Vox

Sad!

Also on Thursday morning...

Watch that clip.  What he's saying is worse than Aaron's comment.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Mueller must testify on TV

And Barr should be impeached for misleading Congress and the American public, for overriding the Special Counsel's report, and for being a dick.

I'm going to surmise that this latest round of attacks on Mueller by Bill Barr are because he knows Mueller's televised statement actually refuted what Barr is trying to sell, even though Mueller didn't expressly say so. In fact, he even said he believed Barr was acting in good faith when he decided to release the report, leaving many to hear that as a cover for all of Barr's actions.

Meanwhile, Barr continues to throw Mueller under the bus.

Mueller said this week that he could not indict Trump because of a Justice Department policy that prohibits indicting a sitting president, and was not even willing to conclude if a crime was committed out of fairness to the president.

But Barr, a Trump appointee who oversaw the final stages of the Russia investigation, gave a starkly different opinion to Mueller's - saying the special counsel could have made a judgment call even if he could not indict the president.

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Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein [...] later concluded on their own that the report lacked ample evidence to charge Trump with obstruction.

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"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," Barr said, according to an excerpt released on Thursday from an interview with CBS' This Morning.

"The opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office, but he could've reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity," Barr added.

"But he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained and I am not going to, you know, argue about those reasons."

  Guardian

You just did.

In his first public comments since starting the investigation in May 2017, Mueller appeared to indicate that Congress could take the matter of deciding whether Trump had committed obstruction of justice into its own hands.

Barr, when asked about this on CBS, said he was not sure what Mueller was referring to with that comment.

"The Department of Justice doesn't use our powers of investigating crimes as an adjunct to Congress," Barr said.

Barr, like everyone else, knows exactly what Mueller was referring to.




 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

Exceeding his role?  He's bent over backward NOT to exceed his role.  In fact, even Trump's butt boy AG Barr complained that Mueller didn't FULFILL his role by not making a recommendation for how the DOJ should proceed.

And, gee, whatever happened to "he totally exonerated" Trump?

Pretty sure Old LardAss won't be impeached for a crime the Democrats committed.  Don't think that's going to be a consideration.  The witch has been found.  Indeed, a whole coven.

Dishonest Don doesn't know which way to turn

One day Mueller totally exonerates him; the next he's a complete loser.  Back and forth.



That's some serious spin.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Russia, Russia, Russia!

What did Mueller say?

"As set forth in the report, after the investigation, if we had confidence that
the president did not clearly commit a crime, we would have said so."

Also...

The Justice Department policy prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president meant that "charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider," Mueller said, adding that the Constitution requires a "process other than the criminal justice system" to address wrongdoing by a president.

  CBS

Mueller's report listed ten instances of potential obstruction of justice - instances = charges that can be brought, but by Congress.

Perhaps most explosively, Mueller said in the report that Trump’s “efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.”

  Vox

Also, "unlimited access"?  He refused to be interviewed.

I do believe that's an admission that Russia helped get him elected.  He just had nothing to do with it. That's a new tune for him.

Ten instances.

Mueller needs to be televised repeating them.

UPDATE:

Oh my

This is the guy that Trump has been retweeting so much lately...

Fitton AND Lou Dobbs?  Did they not get the memo?  Trump and Sarah are saying Mueller completely exonerated him again.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  Other Trump diehards didn't get the memo.





This is what happens when you get out ahead of your president.  Wait for him next time.



LOL.  Judge Jeanine didn't even read the report, obviously.

Because they can't win if they don't cheat

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

If you print it, they will buy it

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Mr. Mueller "does not plan to testify before Congress"

Tell Mr. Mueller what he already knows:  If Congress calls him to testify, his plans will have to change.

Might have known the bitch was lying.  Pardon me if I sound a little ungenerous toward Miss Sarah. 

We'll move on when Congress does its job and impeaches the criminal in the oval office.

No, asshat.  in our country a person is "presumed" innocent until "proven" guilty in a court of law.  That could still happen.

Perhaps we should have a look at Mueller's statement:

Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, declined on Wednesday to clear President Trump of obstruction of justice in his first public characterization of his two-year investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mr. Mueller said, reading from prepared notes behind a lectern at the Justice Department at a hastily called appearance.

He also noted that while Justice Department policy prohibits charging a sitting president with a crime, the Constitution provides for another remedy to formally accuse a president of wrongdoing — a clear reference to the ability of Congress to conduct impeachment proceedings.

Although it lasted only 10 minutes, the news conference presented an extraordinary spectacle of a top law enforcement official publicly stating that the president’s conduct had warranted criminal investigation, even though it was impossible to indict him for any crimes.

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Mr. Mueller [...] stressed the gravity of the allegations against the president. Although he noted that his office did not “make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime,” he said, “the matters we investigated were of paramount importance.”

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Although his comments suggested he was more troubled by Mr. Trump’s actions than Mr. Barr, Mr. Mueller took pains to defend how the attorney general handled his report — a subject of previous disagreement between the two men.

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“I certainly do not question the attorney general’s good faith in that decision.” He also complimented Mr. Barr’s decision to make almost the entire report public.

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Mr. Mueller said his news conference was his final word on his investigation. He would not comment further, he said, on the actions of the Justice Department or Congress. He suggested that Democrats in Congress were wasting their time in seeking his testimony because he would simply repeat what he stated in his report. “The report is my testimony,” he said.

  YT

They can still call him in.

Mueller will testify any time Congress calls him to do so, but it's a fair point to think it's possible that if it's during impeachment hearings, he'd say more.

Ken White/Josh Barro podcast:

Yes.  Trump certainly understands the impact of television.

See that you do, Jerry.  See that you do.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



UPDATE:



You know how that could happen?  Start impeachment hearings and subpoena him.