Excellent (unrolled) Twitter thread about damning details in the Mueller report;

[tblue37]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1118895263790370817.html

[Leghorn21]

1. It's Daniel Dale!!

Many thanks, blue!!

[triron]

2. Reading through this it looks like to me Mueller did some whitewashing himself.

I am unable to understand his conclusion about conspiracy and cooperation.
Anyone else feel likewise?

[mercuryblues]

3. Wow

..if we had confidence...that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment."

This is the 1st time I am seeing the preceding sentence. Which gives the quote Barr has been pushing the exact opposite meaning.

Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment.

[triron]

4. Again this looks like whitewash coming from Mueller.

Wishy washy.

[mercuryblues]

5. It is wishy-washy

if we had confidence...that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment."

I am reading those 2 sentences as using legal standards

"I could not find evidence that trump did not commit obstruction of justice." IOW: I could find evidence that trump did commit obstruction. Mueller's team chose to write it up using double negatives.

[Maraya1969]

6. Witness Tampering.

Mueller: After Flynn withdrew from his defense agreement with Trump, Trump's lawyer left Flynn's lawyer a voicemail demanding a "heads up" if Flynn was giving Mueller any info that "implicates the president," and asking Flynn to "remember" that Trump had warm feelings for him.



And I bet Manafort is kicking his ass for believing this shit from #45

Mueller: Manafort told Gates that Trump's personal lawyer told him that "we'll be taken care of," though the lawyer didn't specifically use the word pardon, and that it'd therefore be stupid to plead guilty.

And this:

Mueller: There doesn't need to be an underlying crime for there to be obstruction of justice. "The injury to the integrity of the justice system is the same regardless of whether a person committed an underlying wrong."