US Politics May 2019: " If I was burned at the stake, I would ask for a mirror"

The NYT's eyebrow twitches slightly as though trying to be raised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGL5dclzjHo&feature=youtu.be

Try again
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMCeSZOYCxORs481iukwXQ

Huh. Anyway, that's the kickoff ad from Jaime Harrison, former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, who is challenging Lindsey Graham. Don't know anything about Harrison, even after that video, but he's got my support.

Mueller gonna speak at 11?

oh man this is gonna finally be the end of the trump presidency, i can FEEl it

probably wants to complain about Game of Thrones

I saw some news/rumor item late last night claiming that mueller had, at one point, prepared an obstruction allegation against Trump. Maybe he’s coming out of his shithole to make sure everyone knows that’s not true. There is too much hope in the world

while we wait for mueller's pronouncement that mcdonalds should make the mcrib a permanent menu fixture, here's a fun thread on the shocking news that trump's tax cuts enriched the rich and did nothing for wages or the economy

Congressional Research Service—which is nonpartisan, independent, and highly-respected—just published a report that dismantles claims that the GOP tax law is doing much good for the economy. https://t.co/rAkDIbVHjv

Here are some quotes…

— Harry Stein (@HarrySteinDC) May 28, 2019

US Justice Dept. says Mueller's statement will be "on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. This will be a statement only, no question and answer period to follow."

I expect this to be deeply disappointing, probably something along the lines of "trust whatever Barr says".

I saw some news/rumor item late last night claiming that mueller had, at one point, prepared an obstruction allegation against Trump.

yeah, the new Michael Wolff book:

In his chapter on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, Wolff says there was a draft version of a three-count criminal indictment against President Donald Trump as early as March 2018. He says the three charges (under Title 18 of the federal code Sections 1505, 1512 and 1513) did not stem from the Russian interference itself but from Trump's efforts to thwart the investigation.

Wolff links this draft to Mueller's deputy Andrew Weissmann and reports that Mueller let it languish for nearly a year while preparing his own report, ultimately deferring to a longstanding Justice Department policy that a president could not be indicted while in office. Wolff says he got a look at the draft, and other related memoranda regarding that no-indictment policy, from "a source close to the Office of Special Counsel."

But the Office of Special Counsel on May 28 released a statement denying that account. "The documents you describe do not exist," said Peter Carr, responding to questions from The Guardian and other media organizations.

what a time for the krassenstein brothers to be banned from twitter

he could at least do a better version of faking it: Giacometti biography, book about African art, Winston Churchill, Gladstone, Jess Phillips...

oops wrong thread

i have little doubt this won't be totally infuriating

https://media.wnyc.org/i/800/0/c/85/1/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-footbal-gag.png

for forty days and forty nights, we have waited for mueller to speak

we have eaten normally during this time

it'd be neat if he coolly took to the stage and delivered an unbroken fifteen-minute series of howls, shrieks and dolphin noises into the mic before adjusting his tie, stepping down from the lectern, walking through the main doors of the department of justice building and disappearing in a dazzling blast of hot pink light, never to be seen again

mueller: LIVE!

"It's worse than you think!" Claws out eyes.

one minute later, on the internet: "...whoa man...live spelled backward is evil...let's follow the money"

it'd be neat if he coolly took to the stage and delivered an unbroken fifteen-minute series of howls, shrieks and dolphin noises into the mic before adjusting his tie, stepping down from the lectern, walking through the main doors of the department of justice building and disappearing in a dazzling blast of hot pink light, never to be seen again

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/snl/images/7/74/Odonoghue.png/revision/latest?cb=20131220094933

can't believe they're finally gonna lock her up

We begin bombing Russia in five minutes.

Word is going out from within DOJ that Robert Mueller’s statement will be “substantial” and the NYT adds that it will be “lengthy.”

i am ready to receive the knowledge now

The fact that this is a statement on behalf of DOJ gives me a very bad feeling about it.

mmm daddy mueller gimme that lengthy, substantial statement pls

Barr approved it, so...

he's basically just saying what the report already said

big surprise

TOTAL EXONERATION

so the President of the United States is allowed to commit unlimited crimes, cool

what a pile of shit

jfc

That was basically "Listen, you stupid fucks, I wrote the whole fucking thing down for you, I don't know why I have to come out here and tell you the exact same shit again, but here we go."

good morning, ladies and gentlemen. since no one in this country can read, i am here to summarize what was already stated in the first pages of my report

Lol, what a waste. Hopefully Pelosi and friends caught his not too subtle inference that it is up to Congress to carry this forward.

yeah i prefer my 'blast of hot pink light' press conference idea tbh

Why do we have to live in an era when 99% of people with any chutzpah or backbone are also basically demons cast loose from hell to frolic among the doomed mortal populace? Why is that?

nothing but love for his good buddy Barr too, assholes of a feather.

Guys what exactly were you expecting from this presser

Him to deliver a message that differed from his report, so everyone could ask why it wasn't in the report?

i may have missed it, but did he say anything indicating his willingness to testify in front of a committee? it is already ridiculous that his team never interviewed trump as part of his investigation, and it will be just as ridiculous if he never takes any questions from congress on 2 years of work that clearly showed trump covering shit up over and over

he doesn't have anything to say to Congress that's not in the report

so please don't subpoena him

I think there's still value in having him testify in public because he could then spoonfeed his findings on camera, which somehow makes them more "real". But he's obviously not revealing anything new that we don't already know.

I feel like he's probably thinking "I set up a clear case of obstruction for you while being constricted by current DOJ guidelines, ain't my fault if you all bury it"

Him appearing could be helpful if only to throw cold water on GOP Congressmen who try to misappropriate his statements during a hearing or clarify any statements that weren't clear.

But lets face it, when 50 million people read a report that would have ruined anybody else and proclaim EXONERATION, it's a losing battle