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[Well boys and girls, let's all talk about the released Mueller report (here).  After explaining a year or two that collusion by itself is neither nefarious nor illegal, and conspiracy is surreptitious collusion with intent to harm, I smiled this morning as the NPR mavens awakened to that important distinction in their aspirations about AG Barr's talk and press conference this morning.  Your task, should you be so inclined, is to find in this entertaining aftermath even a smidgen of common ground for healing the land.  gjr]

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212 responses to “Sandbox – 18apr19”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Good news. For eleven bucks, you can buy the free Mueller Report from the Wa Compost with, of course, an intro written by two Post liars to tell you what to think. What a bargain! Pimp my ride.
    It’s amazing how adapt the DNC media is at predicting everything in the report and the fallout before one word has been read. Such seers. The DNC Media’s credibility is their stock and trade. Unfortunately, they have no stock to trade.
    Let the spin games begin. It’s a threat to our Democracy!
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMAOKpADxMQ

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Read report here…..for free. It’s runnning slow.
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/18/full-mueller-report-just-released-read/

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  3. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Just say no!
    Mission Accomplished!
    Game Over!
    Reds need another script writer

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A brief skim of the mental breakdown of the DNC Media Complex. Quite the display of psychosis. Popcorn time. Popping heads time.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Just say no!
    Mission Accomplished!
    Game Over!
    Reds need another script writer”
    lol. Oh, don’t be such a bad sport. No doubt some Trump company fired a POC or he had a tawdry girlfriend in 1987. Just keep digging, there has to be something!
    Personally, I’m getting tired of winning so much, there has to be an end to it.

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    scenes

    From that newsbusters site:
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2019/04/18/why-why-nicolle-wallace-completely-loses-it-after-barr-presser
    Too funny. Remember back when they used to have news on TV? At least she didn’t start crying on the air.
    WHY?!!! WHY??!!!! lol.
    WHY is that stuff on the air? It’s like watching a combination of a Blue Mob Rush Limbaugh and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. Rosenstein did not blink his eyes! The press conference was an act of Colllusion in and of itself! What more proof do we need? Impeach him!
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/18/mainstream-media-not-handling-zero-collusion-conclusion-well/
    Personally, I think the silent bearded dude was holing Barr’s horse.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Embarrassing typo @9:22am. Holding Barr’s horse, not holing. I offer no excuses and accept full responsibility.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar

    Mueller’s report is defiantly a hand off to Congress. Look for Mueller to testify asap. Chances of impeachment are increasing because of the plethora of evidence of Presidential misconduct. Since Trump will not be re-elected, Congress may decide on an endless drip drip of investigations and revelations to seal the deal. Presidential Sleaze has reached a crescendo surpassing Clintons “not sex” servicing in the White House and even Nixons “I am not a crook” spouting.
    Presidential loyalty will be tested so don’t be surprised if a viable Republican Presidential candidate may emerge as an option if Trump is declared down and out by the American voters.

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    “Personally, I think the silent bearded dude was holding Barr’s horse.” (corrected)
    ‘Cause justice is the one thing you should always find
    You got to saddle up your boys, you got to draw a hard line
    When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
    And we’ll all meet back at the local saloon
    And we’ll raise up our glasses against Evil forces singing
    Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses
    I quite hope there will be a Part Deux to this situation. The 17 intelligence agencies could stand a bit of a sweeping.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ..and I should credit Keith/Emerick

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    Paul @10:01AM sez: some stuff
    lol. You guys are such bad losers. Don’t you even feel slightly embarrassed?
    I admire the tactic of making up just any old thing (Nixon’s The One poster with pregnant black lady), but really.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar

    Scenes
    Do you think Mueller’s report makes Trump a “winner”?

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  14. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Wow. It is so amazing how people have such diametrically opposed views on the mueller report. I don’t see anything in the report that warrants anything except an apology to Trump. Apparently Paul thinks Trump can get impeached now. I love this country. 🇺🇸

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    “Do you think Mueller’s report makes Trump a “winner”?”
    Everything makes Trump a winner. One man with a twitter account and a league of deplorables vs. the forces of evil. Mordor appears to own media, schools, appointed officials at the 17 intelligence agencies.
    It’s a fair match thus far.
    You need to get to inventing some new imaginary trumpcrimes.

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    BarryP@10:18AM
    Odds that Paul read the Mueller Report -> 0%

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar

    Barry
    From my lens Mueller, by claiming he does not have the authority to indict the President on anything, is saying that he’s leaving up to Congress to decide on a path forward which may lead to impeachment. Remember, Mueller specifically does not exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice charges.

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  18. AVman Avatar
    AVman

    ,,,No Collusion, No Collusion!!!
    What happened to the peanut popper Deep State conspiracy???
    And now this,
    https://www.apnews.com/48f9d5132d7a4e2d823edad8fc407979

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar

    I’m reading it as we speak Scenes. Have you? Here’s a link
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/full-mueller-report-pdf/index.html

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  20. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    No collusion no obstruction. All the other stuff is BS. Just Mueller putting in crap for his pal Comey.

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar

    Tod, did you believe Nixon when he declared “I am not a crook”?

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Finished the Carter Page and George the Greek parts…and the Trump Tower. What a nothingburger. The Russian Collusion fakenews narrative was been put to bed. At least that is the one thing that Mueller and all concerned can agree on. A no-brainer.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W51bDsk48IE
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JjLDKDkbF5E

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Get started, Paul. Get started, Dems. You’ve got just enough time tucked between primary elections to get articles of impeachment through the House and to the Senate by the conventions in the Summer of 2020.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Yes I say go go go on impeachment. Can’t wait to see that and then get the House back.

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    Paul Emery, with authority, sez: “I’m reading it as we speak Scenes.”
    lol. Yah, sure. It’s page three. Your eyes..are….getting…..very………..heavy.
    Gregory: “Get started, Paul. Get started, Dems.”
    This election season should be amazing. A whole herd of crazy people all proving their intersectionality street cred vs. a one man political wood chipper. It should be sweet.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Barr press conference. A quick take from someone with a judicial temperment and who is without TDS.
    “That is why Barr laid out the facts that the president could have shut down the investigation but did not; that he could have asserted executive privilege to withhold information from the investigation, but instead made numerous witnesses and well over a million documents available to the special counsel; and that – reportedly according to Mueller – the president sincerely felt frustrated that the investigation was unfairly undermining his presidency. The point is that these facts so cut against the idea of corruptly impeding an investigation that it is inconceivable the prosecutor could prove an obstruction case beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    “A final thought on this. The problem we have when a prosecutor makes a decision that implicates politics is that an unreal standard is imposed. For a prosecutor, either there is enough evidence of a crime or there is not. There is no gray area in between. But in reality, there is more gray area than anything else. The fact that no crime is found does not mean the underlying conduct merits our endorsement. It is common sense that we can conclude the president did not handle each of the ten incidents in a way we find admirable, and at the same time agree that the president’s conduct was not felonious.
    “Common sense is in short supply, though.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/william-barr-press-conference-no-obstruction-on-the-facts-of-the-case/
    Watching the monkeys trying to hump a greased pig is entertaining, if nothing else. It has become a national pastime.
    ——————————
    “I guess they fall back on the “where there’s smoke there’s fire” trope, but that is not always the case. Sometimes there’s just smoke. Sometimes someone turned on a smoke machine.
    “This didn’t stop every major media outlet from running with the “10 episodes” of potential obstruction narrative. And because there were so many, that must mean Trump actually obstructed an investigation into a crime that didn’t exist.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/46133/mueller-investigated-10-episodes-potential-trump-ashe-schow?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
    Now put your lips together and say, “There was no collusion.”
    https://www.facebook.com/newtgingrich/photos/a.162764089196/10157181840864197/?type=3&theater
    Mark the Tape!!

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  27. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd – You were right, as always. Pot smoking Muslim terrorists torched Notre-Dame. How the heck did you come to that conclusion within minutes of the fire starting? Case closed. Firing squad or beheading? While we’re at it, we might as well Lock Her Up!
    “Investigators believe an ‘electrical short circuit’ was responsible for starting the blaze which devastated Notre Dame cathedral this week. ”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6935889/Time-lapse-camera-Notre-Dames-roof-help-reveal-cause-fire.html

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar

    Are you reading the report scenes?

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trumps memory problems:
    Add senility to the list of Trumps mental decencies.
    “Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators on more than 30 occasions that he did not recall, remember or have independent memories of key events throughout the Russia investigation, leading Mueller’s team to deem his written responses to questions “inadequate.”
    In his detailed report on the probe, released to the public Thursday, Mueller revealed for the first time the results of his written interview with Trump. The special counsel’s questions covered Trump’s knowledge of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Russian hacking during the election, the Trump Organization’s Moscow project and contacts with Russia during the 2016 election and transition.
    Trump wrote to investigators he had “no recollection of learning at the time” about the June 2016 meeting between his son, son-in-law, campaign chairman and Russians who offered dirt on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, “nor do I recall” learning of it during the campaign.”
    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/439546-trump-told-mueller-more-than-30-times-he-did-not-remember-key-events

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    PUNCHY 1153AM
    That’s shocking! More than 30 occasions?
    What are you going to do about it?

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  31. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump is trashed by Nadler and his gang and they give no credit to Trump for never invlving himself in the witch hunt. Seems logical that if he had something to hide he would have stopped it as he could rightly have done. But listening to the haters I can see they would rather get Trump than help America. They are traitors and seditionists in my view. Seven Days in May here again.
    OOZE, why are you so unhinged today? Did you forget your JB again?

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar

    Just reporting the facts Gregory

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar

    sp “Add senility to the list of Trumps mental deficiencies.”

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So, Punch, you think it’s a fact that Trump is senile on the basis of written responses to Mueller’s team’s questions?

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. Trump does not recall 30 times. Trump has nothing on Comey or My Gal. They said it hundreds of times…under oath and under questioning, lol. Oh, I feel your pain.
    Now, give them some of that old time religion to make it through these difficult times.
    https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-god-allowed-the-mueller-report-to-test-our-unshakable-faith-in-collusion?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
    Time to take a deep breath and reflect on how to become a better person.
    https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/donald-trump-runs-a-victory-lap-with-no-collusion-media-montage/

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Comey did not recall a couple of hundred times. Hillary the same. But Paul Emery’s nose is up their asses so he gives them no mind.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That Candace Owens is my kind of Gal. And to think the media and our Enlightened Betters call her a White Nationalist, lol. You go Gal
    https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/videos/597047617459547/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMjMyNjI4MjUzNDUwNzMy/
    ————————————
    Oh my. Dan is having too much fun. More White Supremists speak to Congress. You go girls. You beat that old black man silly. Remember Hayden Williams. Diamonds are hard.
    https://www.facebook.com/NRATV/videos/10155593594792898/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMjMyNjM2MzA2NzgzMjYw/

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    This is the real story here, the deep state conspires with leftist media –
    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-intelligence-institutionally-politicized-toward-democrats/
    😉

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So, Punch, you think it’s a fact that Trump is senile on the basis of written responses to Mueller’s team’s questions?
    Answer the question.

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    Does anyone remember the number of times while under oath that Comey forgot critical goings on in the bureau of which he was the director?

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar

    Why don’t you document and refresh us George
    Gregory
    I contend he has an astounding lack of memory that could be considered senility or he’s lying.
    Here’s an example:
    “I was in Trump Tower in New York City on October 7, 2016. I have no recollection of being told that WikiLeaks possessed or might possess emails related to John Podesta before the release of Mr. Podesta’s emails was reported by the media. Likewise, I have no recollection of being told that Roger Stone, anyone acting as an intermediary for Roger Stone, or anyone associated with my campaign had communicated with WikiLeaks on October 7, 2016I do not recall having had any discussion during the campaign regarding a pardon or action to benefit Julian Assange. ”
    How can you “not recall” such a monumental events? He didn’t say it did or didn’t happen he just said he “can’t recall.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/read-trump-s-written-responses-mueller-report-n995851

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gregory, George
    A quick question:
    do you consider Trump to be mentally and emotionally fit to be President?

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, it is sorta sad to see the Leftinistas contiinue to carry Putin’s water. Just think of all the free meddling the Russians are getting and sowing discord without lifting a finger. I bet Putin is rolling on the floor laughing his punchy off right now. Fact is stranger than fiction.
    In Mueller they trust. Good read from our next Woodward and Bernstein, John Solomon.
    “One inherent message of the first volume of the Mueller report is clear: It is time for the professional media to assume responsibility for its role in inflaming the public with a scandal that wasn’t proven, by endlessly quoting intelligence and partisan political sources whose claims went far beyond the evidence it slithered upon.
    “Case closed. Russiagate was no Watergate.
    “Because Trump refused an interview with Mueller, on the advice of his attorneys, the only state-of-mind evidence that prosecutors had directly from him came from the president’s interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, just a few days after the president fired then-FBI Director James Comey.
    “In that interview, Trump made clear that he did not want to stop the Russia investigation and actually expected his actions would elongate it.
    “His motive, he said, was simply to get a more competent person in charge so that the probe would be “absolutely done properly” and the outcome would be the “right thing for the American people.”
    “That’s hardly the intentions of an obstructive criminal kingpin.
    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/439529-the-lesson-of-mueller-an-innocent-mans-defense-can-look-like-a-guilty
    Lest we be drawn amiss, the most important evidence so far is “The White House is running this”—-Peter Strzok, August 2016.

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar

    Fox news bails on supporting Barr
    “Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Thursday explained to his audience how voters were “deceived” by Attorney General Bill Barr’s claims about what was included in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.
    Smith noted the discrepancy between whether Barr views his job as working for the American people or being the personal attorney for President Donald Trump.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/fox-news-host-shep-smith-blasts-ag-bill-barrs-spin-deceived/

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Just reporting the facts Gregory” 1205pm
    “I contend he has an astounding lack of memory that could be considered senility or he’s lying.” 1239pm
    So, you’re just reporting facts or you’re contending he could be considered senile or he’s lying, based on his written answers to questions from a special persecutor?
    Which is it, Paul? Honest reporting of facts, or are you presenting facts in a way to support your contentions?

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  47. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    I think President Trump is mentally and emotionally completely fit to be president of the United States. All of this impeachment nonsense is going to do nothing but guarantee that Trump wins in 2020. The bat shit crazy show in the House of Representatives shows that Democrats are not serious. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Jerry Nadler are the drivers of the clown car with AOC and the rest of those nuts in the backseat. 🤡

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  48. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Fox news bails on supporting Barr”
    But then you present it’s Shep Smith, Never Trumper, that has discouraging words following all his previous discouraging words.
    Why did you lie, Paul?

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  49. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who cares what shep said @1 he is a never Trumper big deal only to the TDS set.

    The littlest commiecongress-critter is a coward who did not want evidence of her next foot swallowing episode –
    Organizers of the Protect Veterans Health Care at the VA town hall in New York featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tell Fox News that the event was at capacity, but video from inside the building tells a different story. ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-host and veteran Pete Hegseth sounds off on the rejection.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-denied-access-alexandria-114026615.html
    😉

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  50. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    The Paul Emery witches are desperate. Trump is totally in control of his facilities, unlike Paul Emery who seems to have dementia. When one repeats themselves constantly like he does that is a sure sign the noggin is in trouble.
    Trump was cleared and exonerated for something that never happened. Now they are desperate to pin “obstruction” on him which is so laughable it makes me hurt. But the democrats and never Trumpers will keep on trucking to oblivion while we make America Great Again!

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