4539

So do tell, Rod…why are you saying this now?

4540

Yea what the hell. Where was he during the Mueller report?!

4541

Rosenstein is basically quoting the Mueller Report. I don’t understand why anyone is objecting to that.

4542

The phrase “a day late and a dollar short” comes to mind. He’s another in the very long list of people who had power and did little or nothing. Now that he has none, he speaks out and objects.

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4543

The Barr letter said the exact same thing.

The Special Counsel’s investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election… The second element involved the Russian government’s efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election.

4544

I know. The letter that almost completely mischaracterized the results of the SC investigation in order to cover Trump’s ass.

4545

Neither Rosenstein nor Mueller thought there was enough evidence to prove a link between Russian interference and the Trump campaign.

So he was warning people about Russian interference then, but uninterested in Trump. And he is warning people about Russian interference now, but uninterested in Trump.

4546

Really? Or did Mueller say that he was not able to do it because he thought it was not his place. Which I consider bullshit.

4547

No, Mueller thought that there was not enough evidence to link Russian interference to the Trump campaign.

He also strongly implied (maybe even spelled out) that there was enough evidence that Trump had obstructed his investigation, but Mueller was unable to indict him for that.

It was pretty similar to the Clinton investigation. No proof of any crime committed before the investigation started.

4549

I wonder if without the Mueller report, this new scandal would have the legs it does.

4550

It wouldn’t. The public was able to shrug off much of Trump/Russia as it was happening as “just a joke” (Trump asking the Russians to interfere on national TV) or Trump being new to the job (the deeply shady White House meeting with the Russians in May 2017.) But now they’re getting another, much better documented-as-it-happened round of the exact same sort of treasonous thing, and Trump’s denials are starting to ring false.

(The fact that he lies a million times a day about the most trivial things hasn’t helped him either.)

TLDR: you can fool most of the people some of the time, and some of the people most of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

4551

I don’t think Rosenstein ought to be lumped in with Barr. Not saying he’s a saint, but he did provide cover for Mueller over many long months of investigation, whereas Barr is a straight-up Trump stooge.

4552

We’re gonna need a bigger wall.

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4554

This is excellent, but I felt the phone going off was a bit of showmanship & distracted from an otherwise great overview.

4555

He, in the days leading up to this video, was constantly lamenting how news kept breakig.

4556

What?

4557

Ken Starr found insufficient evidence of criminal activity related to Whitewater, but sufficient evidence of perjury in the course of his investigation.

4558

Ah, understood. When I read Clinton, I was thinking of Hillary. Sorry.

4559

Heh, same here.