Mueller report is in..

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Does congress have the gonads to do it???
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I think that they're waiting for the courts in NY to weaken him further before they take the plunge and risk their Democratic majority. The American electorate is hardly the wisest, these days. Too much reality TV rotted their brains over the last quarter century.
 
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"Does congress have the gonads to do it???"

thats the question.

pelosi is all "oh its bad politics" and the new dealers are all "so ****in what"

if the guy has done something impeachable then impeach him based on that, and not on whether its good politics..
 
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No, what Meuller said is that one cannot prosecute a sitting President.
WASHINGTON – In his first public comments on the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller pointedly refused to clear President Donald Trump of criminal wrongdoing but said charging him with obstruction was "not an option" because of Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
"The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing," Mueller said, describing the department's rationale for why a president cannot be prosecuted. He did not directly identify that process, but he was referring to the daunting political exercise of impeachment.

He didn't say that the case is weak. He said that it was the wrong process to press charges.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...a-investigation-and-2016-election/1269060001/
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Yeah, well, we really didn't need any more proof that Moosie's a liar.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
No, what Meuller said is that one cannot prosecute a sitting President.
WASHINGTON – In his first public comments on the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller pointedly refused to clear President Donald Trump of criminal wrongdoing but said charging him with obstruction was "not an option" because of Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.
"The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing," Mueller said, describing the department's rationale for why a president cannot be prosecuted. He did not directly identify that process, but he was referring to the daunting political exercise of impeachment.

He didn't say that the case is weak. He said that it was the wrong process to press charges.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...a-investigation-and-2016-election/1269060001/
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DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec and Mueller spokesman Peter Carr insist “there is no conflict between” Barr and Mueller statements on the role DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president played in Mueller’s decision re: obstruction. pic.twitter.com/YMMyeSf6sc
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It’s still a weak kneed answer in my humble opinion. If that is what he meant, he could have specifically clarified that at the presser to quell the storm. Instead, his weasel language gave the entirely of the media and Democrat party the green light to claim that the OLC opinion is all that stopped Trump from being charged. He threw chum into the water and it’s really hard to interpret his actions as anything other than intentional.
Now, some will take issue with the use of the word backtrack in this article. I think it’s accurate.
“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said. “We did not determine whether the president did commit a crime.”
Mueller explained longstanding Justice Department policy, which states that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.
“Charging the president with a crime was not an option we could consider,” Mueller explained, adding that “it would be unfair to accuse someone of a crime when there could be no court resolution of the charge.”
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DOJ, Mueller’s Office Release Joint Statement Clarifying Mueller’s Comments

Kerri Kupec, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice and Peter Carr, spokesman for the Special Counsel's Office, released the following statement:
The Attorney General has previously stated that the Special Counsel repeatedly affirmed that he was not saying that, but for the OLC opinion, he would have found the President obstructed justice. The Special Counsel's report and his statement today made clear that the office concluded it would not reach a determination - one way or the other - about whether the President committed a crime. There is no conflict between these statements.
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Former Mueller investigation witness indicted on child pornography charges

George Nader, a Lebanese American businessman, was a key witness to a 2017 Seychelles meeting between Erik Prince, a Trump supporter who founded the private security firm Blackwater, and a Russian financier that drew the scrutiny of the special counsel. Nader has been charged with transporting images of child pornography �� a charge he was also convicted of 28 years ago.


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Oh my...
 
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Former Mueller investigation witness indicted on child pornography charges

George Nader, a Lebanese American businessman, was a key witness to a 2017 Seychelles meeting between Erik Prince, a Trump supporter who founded the private security firm Blackwater, and a Russian financier that drew the scrutiny of the special counsel. Nader has been charged with transporting images of child pornography �� a charge he was also convicted of 28 years ago.


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Oh my...
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Trump sure knows how to pick the best, eh.
 
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George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman and one of Mueller’s ‘star witnesses’ has been indicted on child pornography charges.

Robert Mueller previously investigated whether George Nader, an advisor to the United Arab Emirates, was influencing U.S. policy, the New York Times reported in March of 2018 — Nader was reportedly interviewed by the Special Counsel’s team twice.
JUST IN: Mueller’s ‘Star Witness’ George Nader Indicted on Child Porn Charges

Mueller wanted to interview Nader after he supposedly helped arrange a January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian official.

Nader fled the country last year and flew to the United Arab Emirates to go into hiding after his decades-old child molestation charges were revealed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-star-witness-indicted-on-child-porn-charges/

Guess that's why he didn't pick you cliffy, but yet, look what you picked...
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High ya wiener!
 
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Nader was just one more creepy republican lobbyist on Trumps payroll.
 
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House Judiciary reaches deal with Justice Dept. for material related to Mueller investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice

The deal, announced by Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), appears to forestall contempt proceedings against Attorney General William P. Barr, who has been locked in a standoff with Nadler and House Democratic leaders over access to redacted parts of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III��s report as well as evidence gathered during his two-year investigation.

The House is expected to proceed with a vote Tuesday on legislation authorizing the Judiciary Committee to seek court enforcement of its subpoenas. The committee said Monday that further action could be necessary to secure documents and testimony.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...412&wpisrc=al_politics__alert-politics&wpmk=1
 
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