How Barr’s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled

originally posted by: Quadrivium

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

LOL

But Biden!
The BDS is strong in this thread!
I feel sorry for you guys.

Biden
is
President
.

"But, But, Trummmmppppp!!!!!!

This thread isn't about Biden.

It's about Trump and how Duram opened a criminal investigation into Trump, based on Italian intel they got from Barr's and Duram's fact-finding trip abroad looking for dirt on Biden, and instead turned up evidence against Trump.

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: carewemust

No he didn't. In fact he said he found clear evidence of criminal misconduct but couldn't prosecute because Barr said he couldn't Trump was the President.

FIFY

EDIT TO ADD: It is DOJ policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted, it is not law.

originally posted by: carewemust
Bob Mueller confirmed Trumps innocense.

NEGATORY TO THE MAX!

For those who came in late and like to read:
Muellar Report Searchable

TL;DR:
American Constitution Society: Key Findings of the Muellar Report

The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity

• The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.
  
• Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.
  
• A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.
  

Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016

• Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1]
  
• Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3]
  
• Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]
  

The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”

• In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5] Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent.
  
• Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6]
  
• Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8]
  
• The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
  
• The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election.
  
• The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]
  

Special Counsel Mueller declined to exonerate President Trump and instead detailed multiple episodes in which he engaged in obstructive conduct

• The Mueller Report states that if the Special Counsel’s Office felt they could clear the president of wrongdoing, they would have said so. Instead, the Report explicitly states that it “does not exonerate” the President[10] and explains that the Office of Special Counsel “accepted” the Department of Justice policy that a sitting President cannot be indicted.[11]
  
• The Mueller report details multiple episodes in which there is evidence that the President obstructed justice. The pattern of conduct and the manner in which the President sought to impede investigations—including through one-on-one meetings with senior officials—is damning to the President.
  
• Five episodes of obstructive conduct stand out as being particularly serious:
  
  
  
  • In June 2017 President Trump directed White House Counsel Don McGahn to order the firing of the Special Counsel after press reports that Mueller was investigating the President for obstruction of justice;[12] months later Trump asked McGahn to falsely refute press accounts reporting this directive and create a false paper record on this issue – all of which McGahn refused to do.[13]
    
  • After National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was fired in February 2017 for lying to FBI investigators about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, Trump cleared his office for a one-on-one meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and asked Comey to “let [Flynn] go;” he also asked then-Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland to draft an internal memo saying Trump did not direct Flynn to call Kislyak, which McFarland did not do because she did not know whether that was true.[14]
    
  • In July 2017, the President directed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to instruct the Attorney General to limit Mueller’s investigation, a step the Report asserted “was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct.”[15]
    
  • In 2017 and 2018, the President asked the Attorney General to “un-recuse” himself from the Mueller inquiry, actions from which a “reasonable inference” could be made that “the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role and could shield the President from the ongoing Russia Investigation.”[16]
    
  • The Report raises questions about whether the President, by and through his private attorneys, floated the possibility of pardons for the purpose of influencing the cooperation of Flynn, Manafort, and an unnamed person with law enforcement.[17]
    

originally posted by: Sookiechacha

originally posted by: Quadrivium

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

LOL

But Biden!
The BDS is strong in this thread!
I feel sorry for you guys.

Biden
is
President
.

"But, But, Trummmmppppp!!!!!!

This thread isn't about Biden.

It's about Trump and how Duram opened a criminal investigation into Trump, based on Italian intel they got from Barr's and Duram's fact-finding trip abroad looking for dirt on Biden, and instead turned up evidence against Trump.

EXACTLY!!
Buythem Biden is President.
Buythem Biden is going to be under investigation.
This ENTIRE thread is a "but...but...but...TRUMP" meme in the making.

a reply to: rnaa

Yet the Impeachments proved none of that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

a reply to: Xcalibur254

Apparently, it is super easy to ignore the illegal spying, the fabricated need for special counsel, the high levels of corruption at the FBI, the illegal abuse of FISA, and so on- if it fits your agenda.

Any red blooded American should be pissed that tax dollars have frivolously been spent to grind home the fact that liberals hate Trump. But, the left feels contrite and justified in their hate. I mean heck, Trump is a racist lying cheating misogynist hates little kids murdering thieving elite. ( I honestly believe that he may be somewhat of a misogynistic, but the rest is bullshxx)

The fact of the matter is that he practiced good policy as president, even though the left worked ardently to minimize anything he did.

I am miffed that the left can throw around words like water gate, but can complicitly turn a blind eye to the grave political corruption. This pompous group of people who are so adamant about their own form of perceived wholesomeness are willing to excuse justice and the rule of law the moment it gets in their way.

a reply to: Quadrivium

This ENTIRE thread is a "but...but...but...TRUMP" meme in the making.

EXACTLY!

Trump's and Barr's weaponization of the DOJ backfired spectacularly, and Durham wound-up opening a criminal investigation into Trump. Funny, after all that, Durham didn't find open a single criminal investigation into Biden or Hunter.

originally posted by: Gothar

originally posted by: RazorV66

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Xcalibur254

It is currently unknown what Barr and Durham uncovered in Italy as it seems to have been swept under the rug.

I hope Special Counsel Jack Smith has access to the Italian info.

Imagine being so wrapped up into dwelling on Trump’s imaginary and Dem manufactured crimes, that you purposely look the other way on Biden’s real and factual crimes.

Imagine being so wrapped up in Biden, Biden obsession, Democrat hate and of course Hunter, that it blinds you to anything but love for Trump! Imagine that here on ATS, only Democrats and Biden can possibly do anything wrong! Just imagine......

I don't like either person but the fact remains that they have nothing on Trump or they would have did something already and what we have on Biden is what they wish they had on Trump. Sad part is one side is in denial because they have been conditioned to "orange man bad" no matter what. I'll gladly agree to put Trump in jail if they actually had something on him, but i'm not gonna scream orange man bad and make things up just because he hurt some feelings and called people names.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

This ENTIRE thread is a "but...but...but...TRUMP" meme in the making.

EXACTLY!

Trump's and Barr's weaponization of the DOJ backfired spectacularly, and Durham wound-up opening a criminal investigation into Trump. Funny, after all that, Durham didn't find open a single criminal investigation into Biden or Hunter.

Weird, how that works doesn't it? What's really weird is the fact that no one finds it odd that the most intelligent agency in the country cannot find anything on Trump despite them all saying "We have him!" ya'll being played so hard it's not even funny at this point, it's sort of pathetic.

a reply to: jidnum

It sounds like Jack Smith may have turned up evidence of a new crime. His recent subpoenas have been directed at people involved with Trump's PACs. I wonder if this has anything to do with the nonexistent Election Defense Fund that Trump is always panhandling for in his emails. If so, wire fraud may be added to list of charges currently dangling over Trump's head.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

This ENTIRE thread is a "but...but...but...TRUMP" meme in the making.

EXACTLY!

Trump's and Barr's weaponization of the DOJ backfired spectacularly, and Durham wound-up opening a criminal investigation into Trump. Funny, after all that, Durham didn't find open a single criminal investigation into Biden or Hunter.

No Sookie,
You do not understand.
This thread is a direct attack on YOU.
You see, you are being used, like a tool.
Just as the carpenter uses a hammer, a mechanic uses a wrench or a plumber uses a pipe snake.
You are being used.
Ask yourself when you have EVER seen a presidential candidate and president demonized, lied about and harassed the way Trump has been over the last 7 years.
Now ask why it happened.
Because of people like you.
It is how they control you, how they use you.
It is how they keep your attention off of everything else and get you to act and think the way they want you too.
They only reason this thread was made was to scream "but...buttttt.....TRUMP".
Why?
To keep you focused on the boogeyman they have created in your mind.
To keep you from looking at or accepting everything/anything that comes out about Buythem Biden.
They will keep you preoccupied, and tell you what they want you to think about Biden and crew.
The sad part is that you will accept it and move right back to Trump......

TDS is real and can be seen in almost every post you make about him.

Peace.

a reply to: Quadrivium

I don't feel attacked by this news at all. I feel vindicated.

It's been funny watching the MAGA folks twist in the wind, in light of the Nothing Burger that is the Durham Investigation. And now THIS spectacular backfire!? Good stuff! Right up there with the arrest of McGonigal

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

I don't feel attacked by this news at all. I feel vindicated.

It's been funny watching the MAGA folks twist in the wind, in light of the Nothing Burger that is the Durham Investigation. And now THIS spectacular backfire!? Good stuff! Right up there with the arrest of McGonigal

Yeah,
That's how it was supposed to make you feel. They don't want you to feel attacked, they just want you distracted.
Congratulations, you fell for it......Again.

since the perp walk is now eminent, what is the dirt they found on Trump?

And again for the slow folks, If he committed a crime, arrest him, but please, do it before he dies.

a reply to: Quadrivium

I think you're the one falling. I think you're the one feeling attacked.

a reply to: Sookiechacha

so you don't know what they found, just that Trump is done for, is that right?

a reply to: Xcalibur254

Apparently Trump made a post yesterday celebrating and victimizing Al Capone. Yep, Trump's definitely worried about going down for financial crimes.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

I think you're the one falling. I think you're the one feeling attacked.

You still don't get it.
It is not a feeling of being attacked they want to invoke.
It is a feeling of belonging, acceptance of the tribe by the tribe.
Some people have to belong.
They pull for "their team" regardless of what their team does.
You support your team no matter what and you feel awesome about it, this is what they want.
Why are they still harping on Trump instead of focusing on the current President?
Because they want YOU focused on Trump and not your teams quarterback and how he is failing.

a reply to: Quadrivium

LOL
Look Dude, I'm not on any team. I'm just an observer, observing the obvious.

Barr's interference and weaponization of the DOJ in order to protect Trump was obvious at the time. Now, it's all coming back to haunt both Barr and Trump, and it's about time.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Quadrivium

LOL
Look Dude, I'm not on any team. I'm just an observer, observing the obvious.

Barr's interference and weaponization of the DOJ in order to protect Trump was obvious at the time. Now, it's all coming back to haunt both Barr and Trump, and it's about time.

Of course you are...
If not I would see you bashing Buythem Biden every-so-often.
"GO TEAM"!