Mueller reportedly willing to testify publicly before Congress

[catbyte]

Let's hope that this is true.

Link to tweet

BREAKING: Members of Congress are calling on Robert Mueller to publicly testify on his findings. He’s reportedly more than willing to do so. A formal request for him to testify could be sent as early as this week.

12:06 PM - Mar 25, 2019

[manor321]

1. Dear Lord, Scott Dworkin?

I was excited until I saw this was from Scott Dworkin.

[DirtEdonE]

25. So the right-wing impunes a journalist because he gets to them

So we automatically join in on the scrum?

I trust Scott Dworkin a fucking boatload more than I trust robert mueller iii.

But people here are strangely defending mueller and attacking Dworkin. Go figure.

[DownriverDem]

27. I trust Mueller

What came out wasn't exactly from Mueller. It was from Barr.

[rockfordfile]

35. I don't . I don't trust either.

[zentrum]

38. Mueller is a long standing

...Repug, once head of the FBI. I can't and never have trusted a Repug.

[DirtEdonE]

49. +1 Never trust a fucking repubican nt

[ehrnst]

55. I think you may be confusing Mueller with Barr. We haven't seen what the Mueller report says. (nt)

[DirtEdonE]

57. mueller knew exactly what to expect from barr

If mueller didn't want trump to get all ahead of this story and he was concerned about the danger we're facing something would have been done to prevent what is tantamount to victory for trump in all this, no matter what the report says at this point.

Don't people get it? The story is now an apocryphal tale. How the evil press attacked trump. Now they go after the evil press and investigate everyone else who opposes them. Who's going to stop them? The "justice" department.

trump said it and once again no one listened - his justice department, his military, his police, his judges.

Thanks to mueller and barr trump just shot America dead on 5th Avenue and no one cares.

[ehrnst]

63. Actually, Mueller left the door open for Dems to demand to see the report

When he stated that he didn't exonerate Trump on obstruction.

[Linda Ed]

36. his comment on twitter

Barr’s letter is as credible as Trump’s doctors note.

[DirtEdonE]

58. And yet trump keeps getting doctors to sign those letters. nt

[bearsfootball516]

2. Dworkin is not a reliable source.

[manor321]

9. I know. I can't believe his tweets are still regarded as news.

Like Scott Dworkin would be the one to break this incredible news. With no other reporters I follow on Twitter even repeating it. LOL.

[LovingA2andMI]

14. Joy Reid had him on her show....

[bearsfootball516]

16. Poor move by Joy. We all make mistakes.

[pnwmom]

21. Pelosi's political account on March 23 retweeted him.

https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi

Link to tweet

[DownriverDem]

28. Explain

What is it you folks don't like about Dworkin?

[pnwmom]

33. I can't explain that because I'm not one of those folks. n/t

[DirtEdonE]

50. It seems that for some reason

Some people consider Dworkin and Mensch "resistance grifters" - whatever that means.

You'd think that with the clear and present dangers we are facing they'd have other targets for their scorn.

[Scoopster]

53. You can't even compare the two.

Mensch is a pretender & has no damn clue what she's talking about. She pushes conspiracy theories all the damn time. And on top of it she's incredibly rude.

Dworkin is none of these things.

[demmiblue]

37. +1

Then again, we still have Mensch and Avenatti defenders here.

[DirtEdonE]

51. We seem to have some trump defenders here too

People responded regarding the barr letter saying nonsense like "I guess the evidence just wasn't there" when we all saw the evidence daily in the news courtesy of people like Dworkin, Mensch and Avenatti.

Funny how they're being targeted now that meuller and barr have completed their dirty work.

Funnier still how we have people here defending mueller.

But keep attacking people on our side while trump and co. maintain full speed ahead with their agenda. That should work out well.

robert mueller iii's investigation was just a ruse to keep us waiting for two years while the traitor and the gop put their agenda in place. And now it's too late. So let's shoot the messengers.

[demmiblue]

52. Lol. n/t

[mr_lebowski]

54. I think 'the evidence' to convince all of US is definitely there ...

What's probably NOT there ... is evidence that actually breaks our existing laws, or if it might, there's not actually enough of it to bring charges.

Speaking specifically of the actions taken in conspiracy with Russian actors to influence the election, and excluding the lies to investigators and under oath (and all the rest of Trumps financial crimes).

The lack of laws covering what these guys did is the real problem for a guy like Mueller. Too many degrees of separation, and you had professional criminals like the GRU, plus Manafort and Stone running the interactions. They knew what they could get away with. Just don't actually solicit, or pay for in some way ... the documents that were stolen, and don't ever actually possess any of them yourself, and pretty much legally you're in the clear.

Oh, and don't work with like a Russian Congressmen or actual GRU agent. Russia was smart enough to use cutouts all along, cause they've been doing this shit for DECADES.

Unfortunately Rudy was right when he said 'what is the CRIME here? The theft of the documents!'. Indeed, that IS the only clear crime. Trump and his crew were never going to get into real trouble unless it could be shown they participated in that theft or took receipt of the stolen goods physically. This is why making sure Wikileaks handled and released the docs was critical. They already have a long history of doing EXACTLY like what they did releasing the DNC docs that they received from hackers or insider-types like Chelsea M.

We'd all like to believe that if Jr. asked Stone to try to find out what in the stolen docs ahead of time it's somehow illegal, but it's not.

Bottom-line the laws were too weak to prevent this sequence of events from happening, or from ever being prosecuted.

[DirtEdonE]

59. I'm not a legal scholar so I'm not certain

But it seems than when the average person runs afoul of the law the prosecutors these days drop myriad charges on them then let the jury decide.

I guess we just couldn't find the exact right law to make sure these people were all 100 percent guilty for sure before they went to trial.

No further indictments recommended. Please. This is a whitewash just like the Warren Report, Iran Contra, Bridgegate, etc. And I've been saying that for a while. This took too long. They were just lining up their stories. The fix was in all along.

[DirtEdonE]

61. Forgot to add

If there was a Democrat in the White House the repubicans would know exactly what charges to bring.

[Takket]

3. Good. Let's go.

[Chin music]

5. +1

Yes. Let's go.

[Chin music]

4. Send the request today. What's more pressing in the nation?

He needs to speak THIS WEEK, before the gop tell everyone 'their' version of the story so many times it doesnt even matter.

[FakeNoose]

6. Thank you Mueller! Be sure to bring a fresh copy of your report to the hearing

[duforsure]

7. How long before the threats to him start

From trump , or his minions, or from putin or his buddies. Trump will be furious knowing this now, and it'll refute everything he's claiming now. And expose a lot of really , really bad things on trump and many others.Hope they can get him in there very , very soon. Felix Sater is going before them this Wed., and that has to have trump upset and worried too.

[DownriverDem]

29. Won't matter

Mueller is not a sissy. He's a Viet Nam Marine Vet!!!

[cbdo2007]

8. Mueller looked defeated in that pic of him and his wife leaving church...

like it looked like he was disappointed and it was going to be a bad day...which it was.

I still trust in Mueller and think he is doing the best he can, but like any of us in any of our jobs, sometimes our bosses step in and do a-hole moves.

[triron]

11. I would like to see it. Do you have it?

[dalton99a]

26. Here

[Honeycombe8]

10. I wonder who's "reporting" that. nt

[lagomorph777]

12. Mueller is probably mad as hell that his work has been discarded and overruled.

And Barr is telling a bunch of lies about him.

[cstanleytech]

18. I doubt Barr is lying as he could face criminal charges if he did that however I am willing to bet

that he is carefully cherry picking over the report.

[pnwmom]

22. He crafted the letter very carefully with a few partial sentences taken from Mueller's report.

There is no criminal law against slanted lawyerly writing.

[cstanleytech]

43. Like I said, cherry picking.

[lagomorph777]

23. Who will prosecute Barr? Barr?

See how that works?

[DownriverDem]

30. Barr is a master

at protecting repubs. Iran Contra comes to mind.

[MadDAsHell]

47. What in Mueller's history causes you to paint him with such saintly colors? nt

[lagomorph777]

56. Seriously?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/16/us/robert-mueller-fast-facts/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/who-robert-mueller-special-counsel-hailed-both-parties-straight-shooting-n761291

http://time.com/person-of-the-year-2018-robert-mueller-runner-up/

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582358540/muellers-reputation-in-washington-is-stunningly-bipartisan-journalist-says

[MadDAsHell]

62. Interesting that you didn't include his false testimony lying us into the war with Iraq.

Also, you do realize that Time magazine once named Adolf Hitler person of the year?

[Botany]

13. Do we have another source besides Dworkin?

n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Jon Cooper...but same tweet

Link to tweet

?s=20

[boston bean]

15. Delete this crap until we a valid source claims the same. This guy is a fruit cake.

[berni_mccoy]

17. Democrats will have Barr testify first. This is an important first step.

Let Barr give his testimony. Then go to Mueller to verify Barr's testimony.

[bluestarone]

19. I like your thinking!

[cstanleytech]

20. Agreed.

[lagomorph777]

24. You've turned me around.

Yes, Barr first, then Mueller.

[coti]

31. At best, if you have Barr testify at all it would be better to do it after Mueller, so Barr has to

account for Mueller's more forthcoming answers. Probably better to not even deal with Barr at all, though, his presence in the conversation isn't helpful- his purpose, his role, is to obfuscate. There's a reason the Republicans are TRYING to get him to testify in the Senate quickly.

[lagomorph777]

32. I don't think Barr understands how good Dems can be at the interrogation game.

Some of the recent examples are just stunning.

[coti]

34. Weaseling people out of shit is literally what Barr does best

This is his role, his job. This is the reason he is AG.

[Linda Ed]

39. Anything to protect humpty drumpty

Mitch McConnell just blocked Chuck Schumers measure to call for the full release of the Mueller report to the American public.

In other words, McConnell doesn't want America to know the Truth, while Democrats do.

Doesn't McConnell want to "Exonerate" Trump? Brian Krassenstein on twitter

[Kurt V.]

41. can barr block Mueller? how does the doj wind down special counsel?

[Polly Hennessey]

42. Trust no Republican.

[coeur_de_lion]

44. If true this is great news

[moondust]

45. Barr's buddy Mueller?

Seems a little concerning that these two pivotal players are pals. Is that another reason Barr got the job? In testimony would Mueller play it straight or tend to cover for his pal who was hired to defend the wannabe king?

[Joe941]

46. Horrible source.

[Buzz Lightyear]

48. Kick

He absolutely should. Otherwise Barr and Trump set the narrative.

[spanone]

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