As documented by today’s BradCast special coverage, former FBI Director Robert Mueller finally offered his long-awaited testimony in the U.S. House during nearly 7 hours of hearings before both the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
The Republican former Special Counsel confirmed key details of his two-volume, 448-page report [PDF] on Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election, the Trump Campaign’s coordination with that effort and, in most detail, multiple instances of both indictable and impeachable criminal corruption of justice laid out by the report. In frequently halting and often terse responses to members of the two House panels, Mueller, as promised, refused to stray from the “four corners” of his report, issued earlier this year following his two-year probe.
Nonetheless, as heard on today’s program, his responses made clear that both Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr — not to mention the bulk of the Republican Party and their rightwing media outlets — have been completely misleading the American public with their claims that Mueller’s report somehow “exonerated” the President. It did anything but.
“Did you actually totally exonerate the President?” Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler asked during his opening round of questions. “No,” Mueller flatly replied, later adding that “the President was not exculpated for the acts that he alleged committed.” When Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic Chair of the Intel Committee, asked, “Your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it?,” Mueller dryly responded: “It is not a witch hunt.”
In fact, as Mueller’s testimony made clear to those who watched — especially to those who didn’t bother to read his actual report — any other American who committed the crimes detailed in the Special Counsel’s report would have been indicted on multiple felony counts, as more than 1,000 former federal prosecutors have now stated. But for the Dept. of Justice Office of Legal Counsel’s (unsupportable) opinion that a sitting President cannot be indicted, Trump would most likely have been charged long ago for his repeated, unlawful attempts to quash the Special Counsel’s investigation.
Moreover, near the close of today’s long hearings, Mueller offered a chilling warning about what he describes as still-ongoing efforts by Russia and other foreign powers, “as we sit here”, to interfere with and manipulate upcoming U.S. elections.
We hold most of the commentary and analysis on all of this for another day in order to bring you extended excerpts on today’s program from the detailed questions and answers with members of Congress from both parties and in both the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. If you weren’t able to catch seven hours of hearings beginning at 8:30am ET on a work day, we’ll get you fairly well caught up on the key through-line and the most noteworthy stuff in just under an hour. You’re welcome!
If the Dems don’t impeach and Trump gets re-elected, this is what will happen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1fuCEL_5-U
Don’t laugh — that happened in the United State, people.
… and it will happen in every part of this nation.
There is this tendency in the U.S. for the victims of history not to see themselves as makers of history, forseeing instead the coming deepening oppressive regime dreamed up by their victimizers as their inevitable lot in life, as if these victimizers’ hold on power will only grow.
Power publicly boasts of its will while the oppressed and their allies sigh in despair. The unseen agents of revanchment capture the institutions created for our well-being and then deploy its resources for its opposite.
That’s just the way it is.
But must it?
See above.
Brad is a true journalist, the corporate media is not (Blind Willie McTell News – 7).
The Senate Intel committee did a serious report (link).
Dredd @ 3 –
The corporate media are not.
You’re welcome. And thank you. 🙂
You is welcome Brad. 🙂