What the Mueller Report Actually Said
The Atlantic,
by
David Frum
Original Article
Posted By: drive,
5/30/2019 7:26:03 AM
Robert Mueller has advised Americans to go back and actually read his report if we want to understand what happened in 2016. “We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself,” he said on Wednesday morning, speaking publicly for the first time since his appointment.
But the words of the report are damning.
“The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion,” Mueller wrote. This help “favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 5/30/2019 8:06:30 AM (No. 86732)
Frum is lying.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/30/2019 8:19:48 AM (No. 86744)
FTA: "The full report is rich with details. But that’s the essence. A foreign power interfered in the U.S. election to help the Trump campaign. The Trump campaign welcomed the help and repeatedly lied about it. The lying successfully obscured some questions the investigation sought to answer; in the end, it found insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. President Trump, in public and in private, worked to stop the investigation."
Gee, a hallucinating hit piece in the Atlantic by a NeverTrumper eagerly posted. Don't waste you time, as I did.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 5/30/2019 8:29:22 AM (No. 86751)
Classic narrative from the dark side. Satanic really. Blame others for what you have done. Luckly, at the same time God gave us the internet and all the filth it brings into our lives, He also gave us a device to find truth at the same time the liberal entertainment establishment was about to place us into a scene from George Orwell's 1984. The only reason we can fight back is because of website's like Lucianne, Citizen's Free Press, Breitbart, Whatfinger etc.
Reading this BS, and then being able to comment on it is priceless.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/30/2019 8:59:21 AM (No. 86771)
I’d like these guys to find one voter who says they were swayed by anything the Russians did.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 5/30/2019 9:13:18 AM (No. 86785)
Why would anyone but a dem or lo info voter think Russia interfered with the election to help a Republican. Obama is on tape telling them he will help them after his re-election and the Clintons are known to have sold America out to the Russians and the Chinese.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
tsquare 5/30/2019 9:14:11 AM (No. 86786)
Oh how the goal posts shift. Charged with performing a criminal investigation...the Mueller team failed to find violations of federal law.
Turning to collusion (which is not per se a crime), the Mueller team report finds loose ends that they were unable to tie to a federal crime, and concludes with the amazingly unamerican statement that they were unable to conclude innocence.
Not enough goal post shifting? Now, it is being suggested that the applicable standard of collusion (which is not per se illegal) should be intent. Oh yes, surely the the Trump team had the wish that the investigation would close and the business of the government (umm, where is the constitutionally mandated budget?) could proceed...
First of the the many mishapen factoids of Frum was “Trump polling data was shared with the Russians”. Fact is that this data was shared with Ukrainians by Manafort, a short term campaign manager who received 47 months in jail and substantial fines for his abuses of the campaign system for personal gain.
The last of Frum’s false factoids is in statement that the president refuses to take action to secure the next presidential election. The white house release of sept 2018 belies Frum’s statement (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-working-protect-nations-elections-foreign-interference/)
In between the first and the last was mostly cud, being chewed over and over again by the cows who cannot imagine a future with a bull in charge. Like Trump or not, he is the duly elected president: it is time to let these past fantasies go.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 5/30/2019 9:23:04 AM (No. 86793)
“We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself”
Yeah, Mueller, we got that much when you told us you were not
able to “exonerate” Trump of the crimes you were investigating.
Plus, we know that those carefully chosen accusatory words were
probably dictated by political deep state hack, Andrew Weissmann.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/30/2019 10:16:28 AM (No. 86840)
We know that Russia did not help President Trump. They wanted crooked Hillary, who could be bought. They knew she could be bought because they had already bought her.
If anything, I think the Russians wanted to sow discord and incite chaos They believed that Hillary was going to win, just like most people did. What they wanted was for Trump to ''not accept the results of the election'' which he had said he might do, if there was evidence of voting fraud.
Surprise! Surprise! Donald J. Trump won! The Russians lost their candidate, but only had to tweak their plan for discord and chaos. All they had to do was feed the democrat derangement and hatred.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MattMusson 5/30/2019 11:10:14 AM (No. 86882)
Google and FaceBook interfered in the election at least 3 order of Magnitude more than the Russians... on Hillary's side.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 5/30/2019 11:39:06 AM (No. 86904)
"The Atlantic" is a very suspect source, occasionally publishing an interesting non-screed, but that
is not the norm.
Then ANYTHING with Frum's name on it is a "must avoid" - ALWAYS.
Not clicking, why would I unwrap a stinky diaper?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rochow 5/30/2019 12:43:39 PM (No. 86945)
Memo to liar Frum: if anything the Ruskies wanted to help Hitlery! They know her and are aware what a greedy, stupid cow she is. Witness the Uranium Deal! The Russians noticed the never ending greed of both Klintons. They are aware that both of them are willing to sell the entire country for their own gain!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/30/2019 12:52:50 PM (No. 86949)
We know the Russians have interfered in our elections for years, but the Mueller report emphatically stated that no results of the election were altered or changed.
Hillary spent over $1 billion on her campaign, and they believe $100,000 spent by some Russians on FB swayed the election?
Understand the "bait click" ads the Russians used were targeted to a specific demographic, but had limited clicks, or impact.
The Democrats need to keep the idea that somehow Trump's win is illegitimate, and was stolen from the Democrats.
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