th<\/sup>, 2019<\/p>\nOK, I\u2019m going to beobvious the labor here and tell you that I think William Barr\u2019s third-grade book report version of the Mueller Report is somewhat short of credible.<\/p>\n
Barr, you\u2019ll recall, was the architect of the Iran-Contra pardons issued in the final day of the George HW Bush administration that basically destroyed a six year investigation of some of the worst felonies committed since the previous time a Republican was president. Back then, William Safire referred to Barr witheringly as \u201cthe Coverup-General\u201d and here we are, some 23 years later, and we still have a Coverup-General, and it\u2019s the same despicable toady.<\/p>\n
Safire was a speechwriter for Nixon and Agnew (\u2018nattering nabobs of negativism\u2019) and he found Barr contemptible in his willingness to subvert the legal process in service to party.<\/p>\n
Safire\u2019s dead, but the evil spawn of the far-right takeover of the GOP live on.<\/p>\n
Barr\u2019s letter is nothing more than a last-ditch effort to confuse the Mueller Report with Trump administration talking points. We still don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the Mueller report. We know that Mueller did not indict Trump for treason or even conspiracy against the United States, but that was never part of his remit. He could recommend such a course to the Justice Department or the House of Representatives, and he still might. And even Barr couldn\u2019t manage to pretend that serious evidence of obstruction of justice didn\u2019t exist; the best he could manage was that the Report \u201cdoes not exonerate him [Trump].\u201d<\/p>\n
So we watch to see if Congress can wrest the report from Barr\u2019s greasy paws and bring most, if not all of it into the light of day. We\u2019ve gotten the talking points from Trump\u2019s dancing monkey; now let\u2019s see the actual report.<\/p>\n
Even if Barr and Trump do manage to bury the report, there are three grand juries and at least a half dozen state investigations underway to determine the extent of Trump criminality in everything from using inaugural donations as a laundry for foreign influence peddling to the wild shenanigans surrounding the Trump Tower in Moscow to the demand that Moscow ferret out Hillary\u2019s emails. Even without whatever Mueller has, Trump faces decades in prison for the potential charges he will face.<\/p>\n
But Congress will subpoena the report, and possibly Mueller himself. Barr can\u2019t prevent that, and Trump might face a revolution if he tried.<\/p>\n
And remember, we still don\u2019t know what is in that report. All Barr did was show up with an empty plastic bag draped over a hanger and grandly announce our tuxedo was back from the cleaners.<\/p>\n
The media, in general, got completely played. I even heard a lot of them transposing Barr\u2019s book report with the Mueller tome, and saying Mueller exonerated Trump. Most TV journalism is a vast wasteland, but even for them, that was a limp performance.<\/p>\n
The right wing online circus weighed in, of course. One meme read, \u201cWhy are so many liberals in tears over learning that their president is not a traitor?\u201d<\/p>\n
I still think he\u2019s a traitor, or at least conspiring against the United States for personal gain. (In just about any other country, conspiracy against that country would be considered treason, but the US has a very specific definition of the term \u2018treason\u2019 that sorta takes Trump off the hook.) If anyone\u2019s crying, it\u2019s because they just realized that Trump and the Republicans may have so badly broken the United States that it may no longer have any legal address to rid itself of an enemy in high office. That would be a death knell for any country. That would leave any thinking person in tears.<\/p>\n
Well, Barr gave the empty-headed goosesteppers of the far right something to cheer about, and managed to confuse the equally empty-headed fluffers who purportedly keep us informed, but I doubt it\u2019s going to last for very long.<\/p>\n
Just the things Trump has openly admitted to should have gotten him impeached two years ago. Maybe the United States is that badly broken, in which case expect bloody and horrible times ahead.<\/p>\n
Or maybe it\u2019s like 1940, where the United States was suffering massive attacks on life and property from Germany on the high seas (the equivalent of a 9\/11 every two weeks) and needed 18 months or so to gather the resolve to crush their vicious tormentors.<\/p>\n
It may be that Trump himself, vicious and heedless in what he seems to believe is a victory, will trigger that himself. He has already said he would \u201ccall for organizations to fire members of the media and former government officials who he believes made false accusations about him\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ever heard an American President say anything like that? Nope. Not even Nixon.<\/p>\n
Still, he needs to maintain the pretense that Barr\u2019s Cliff\u2019s Notes version is a substitute for the actual report, and not the real thing. And he has to do something about all those other investigations going on.<\/p>\n
At which point, people will have to decide if they want to simply surrender to this vicious five-and-dime despot and his brown-shirt devotees, or put up a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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