Mueller’s Report Released
Sooner or later, it was going to happen.
After 675 days (that’s one year, 11 months and 17 days) and spending some $26 million of taxpayers’ money, Special Counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, III has submitted his long-awaited report to Attorney General William Barr.
Mueller, who was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 Presidential Election, and allegations that President Trump obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey in May of 2017, submitted his lengthy report to the Attorney General on Friday, March 22nd. Attorney General Barr, who in turn has promised to make public his findings to the extent that he can without compromising national security, is expected to deliver his summary report of the investigations to Congress early this week.
Even before it was announced that Mueller had submitted the report to the AG, Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media were already spinning the results of a report that was for them at once both disappointing and, then retrospectively, inconclusive. Weeks prior to the release of the report, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued subpoenas to eighty-one individuals who have been associated with the President going back to the 1970s in an all-out effort to do what the Mueller report evidently did not do- produce evidence worthy of indictment as a means to impeach the President.
For almost two years, Americans have been hammered by Democrats and the media with the mantra that impeachment would soon follow as a result of Mueller’s thorough investigation. Yet, in the weeks preceding the release of Mueller’s report, it became apparent that the resulting indictments would go no further than Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, all of whom were either indicted on “process” crimes as a result of the investigation itself, or for crimes preceding their involvement with the Trump campaign. Others who also faced Mueller’s indictments were primarily Russians and other foreign nationals who will never respond to the indictments. More importantly, the fact that it was announced than no further indictments would proceed from the Mueller report essentially vindicates what President Trump and his supporters have long insisted upon- that there was no collusion with the Russians and no obstruction of justice, period.
That Trump did not collude with the Russians or attempt to obstruct justice in his firing of Comey comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the origin of the Mueller investigation, the details of which are still emerging in the drip-drip-drip of evidence that the investigation was actually the result of high level corruption in multiple departments of the Obama administration and in coordination with the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
It was the Clinton campaign who bought and paid for a false dossier from Fusion GPS, authored by Christopher Steele, filled with undocumented and unreliable information on Trump and Russia, all in an effort to excavate dirt on Trump. Steele had already denied the veracity of the dossier even before FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein used it to sign off on FISA warrants to surveil members of the Trump campaign. All four did this with the full knowledge that the information in the dossier was unreliable, and all the while concealing the origin of the report- that it was paid for by the Clinton campaign- from the FISA court.
It has now been revealed that prior to his infamous televised exoneration of Hillary Clinton in July of 2016, FBI Director James Comey was in fact acting under the orders of Attorney General Loretta Lynch that Hillary Clinton would face no prosecution for espionage and mishandling of 33,000 emails illegally stored on her own private server, despite very real and substantial evidence of criminal behavior on the part of Ms. Clinton and her associates. Instead, a bogus inquiry into alleged Russian collusion on the part of the Trump campaign was initiated at about the same time to further deflect attention from Clinton, whose husband met with Lynch on an Arizona tarmac just prior to the Comey announcement.
It has further been revealed that Comey illegally released classified information on his meetings with President Trump, through a Columbia University professor, to the New York Times, with the intention of prompting the appointment of an independent counsel, who turned out to be his longtime friend and mentor, Robert Mueller. It was in these January and February 2017 meetings with President Trump that Comey concealed the fact he had used the dossier to obtain FISA surveillance warrants to spy on members of the Trump campaign in the fall of 2016, insisting instead to the President that the dossier had no merit and was without substance- an obvious subterfuge and infamous double-dealing with a duly-elected President.
The coordinated attempt to first sabotage President Trump’s campaign, then reverse the results of a free and fair election and subsequently throw a wrecking ball into Trump’s presidency, crossed many departments and involved several senior members of the Obama administration- Comey, Lynch, McCabe, Yates, Former CIA Director John Brennan, Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, Former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, Former Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and others. The fact that the coordinated effort crossed several departments and bureaus within the Obama administration can definitively and only mean that it was perpetrated by former President Barack Obama, himself. Remember that it was a September 2nd, 2016 text message from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok that “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing,” thus confirming Obama’s involvement.
There is a word for this type of behavior- it’s called an attempted coup d’état, and nothing like this has ever before occurred in the history of the United States.
Not that any of this matters to House and Senate Democrats, who will still insist that Trump obstructed justice and colluded with the Russians to deny Hillary Clinton the presidency- the Mueller report be damned. The fact is that the election of 2016 is something with which they cannot and will not come to grips, and it is their sacrosanct mission to destroy a duly-elected President of the United States and impugn anyone and everyone who supported his candidacy and subsequent presidency. In the coming days and weeks, the media itself will go out of its way to diminish the findings contained within the Mueller report, which did not in the end deliver the goods that they promised would terminate Trump’s presidency.
675 days, and $26 million dollars later, the president’s supporters can smile at the fact that Donald J. Trump is still President of the United States, and laugh at the fact that, thus far, there hasn’t been anything his political opponents in both parties and across the mainstream media can do about it…though surely not for lack of trying. The problem for them is, as the late and former President John Adams once said,
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
Thank God we have a President who doesn’t allow these distractions to interfere with the job he was elected to do…and from where things now stand, it appears that he will be doing this job for another six years.
-Drew Nickell, 24 March 2019
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