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Good Friday greetings from Washington, where the Justice Department
sent liberals combing through a lightly redacted version of the Mueller
report in hopes of finding something, anything to damage President
Trump. Fred Lucas highlights some of the freshest revelations, and Hans
von Spakovsky joins the podcast to talk about contested evidence of
obstruction. The Medicare-for-all crowd has it wrong again, Bob Moffit
writes. Plus: Deana Bass Williams on transgender athletes, Ericka
Andersen on the results of planting churches, and Margaret Smith on
Notre Dame and the importance of the past. Happy Easter, everyone.
News Key Takeaways From the Mueller Report on Trump and Russia The
final Mueller report finds no evidence of a conspiracy between the
Trump campaign and the Kremlin, but the details of the 448-page document
provide fodder for liberals who want more investigations. More Commentary Ignore Medicare for All Advocates’ Claims on Life Expectancy in US. Here Are the Facts. Sen.
Bernie Sanders often reminds us that the U.S. spends roughly twice as
much per capita on health care as most other economically advanced
countries. But American life expectancy is lower than that of almost all
these high-income nations. More Analysis Mueller Report Proves Russian Collusion Claim Is a Hoax “None
of the actions that were taken by the president could be considered
obstruction of justice,” says Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von
Spakovsky. More Commentary Why People Aren’t Fleeing This Central American Country in Caravans Many of those fleeing other Central American countries claim to feel threatened by gangs and crime. More Commentary Transgender Athletes Will Spell the End of Women’s Sports Today, families who object to having their daughters compete against transgender students are being bullied into silence. More Commentary How Church Plants Are Lifting Broken Communities In
2017, 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses and 9.4 million adults
considered suicide.The chances that many of these people were not
attending church are high. More Commentary Elegy for a Fallen Spire Athwart
the stream of progress and change are monuments like Notre Dame, a
resounding contradiction to the claim that today will always be better
than yesterday. More
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Friday, April 19, 2019 Editor’s note: Happy Easter and Pesach (Passover)! We’re taking a brief hiatus to celebrate – be back in full swing next Wednesday! Mueller Time On Thursday, “Attorney General William Barr… released a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to Congress and the public. The special counsel spent nearly two years investigating attacks on the 2016 presidential election and whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russians behind [them].” NPR Read the full report here. AP News From the Left The left thinks the report is devastating for President Trump, and that Mueller offered compelling evidence that Trump committed obstruction of justice. “We learned that two Trump campaign officials, campaign manager Paul Manafort and Manafort’s deputy Rick Gates, were regularly providing polling information to a Russian national whom Gates believed to be a ‘spy.’ We learned that, after Trump publicly called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails, he privately ordered future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to find them. Flynn reached out to a man named Peter Smith who (apparently falsely) told a number of people that he was in contact with Russian agents. We learned that Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos attempted to arrange meetings between Trump and Putin, and that Trump personally approved Papadopoulos’s work on this front… “What the report finds is not clear-cut evidence of a quid-pro-quo. Instead, what we see is a series of bungled and abortive attempts to create ties between the two sides, a situation in which the Trump team and Russia worked to reach out to each other (and vice versa) without ever developing a formal arrangement to coordinate.” Zack Beauchamp, Vox “No evidence of direct conspiracy between Trump officials and the Russians, but plenty of evidence of desired conspiracy. And: Limited ways to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice while he is president, but strong evidence that obstruction was intended and occurred. Already, Republicans are urging the country to move on. In this case, moving on would ignore and reward corruption on a grand scale.” Michael Gerson, Washington Post “The report points out that, although Trump’s attempts to limit and shut down the investigation didn’t ultimately work, that was not because of a lack of effort or intent on his part. Instead, some of the people around him refused to do what he wanted them to do.” John Cassidy, The New Yorker “Trump’s own handpicked aides and close associates, viewing his orders as illegal, counterproductive, dishonest, or just plain stupid, simply don’t carry them out… As Mueller’s decision about charging on obstruction of justice implies, Trump’s fate must be decided by politics, not courts. The behavior detailed in Mueller’s report ought to make it easier for both politicians and the public to render their verdict.” David A. Graham, The Atlantic Some argue that “even under intense stress, the American system hasn’t buckled. A prosecutor appointed and overseen by Trump’s Justice Department is still capable of discovering the facts about this president. The FBI and intelligence agencies weathered a Mueller-documented campaign of presidential intimidation. The fact that a coolheaded Mueller didn’t call for legal prosecution, when half the country was calling for Trump’s scalp, in some ways affirms the integrity of the system… “Congress may shy from impeachment; the public may even, inexplicably, decide that Trump deserves a second term. But the facts will be there for future historians — and for the millions around the world who have worried (or celebrated) that our system is cracking… Mueller’s report is a win for the slow tortoise of the truth.” David Ignatius, Washington Post Minority View: “The sweeping Mueller investigation ended with zero indictments of zero Americans for conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election. Both Donald Trump, Jr. and Jared Kushner – the key participants in the Trump Tower meeting – testified for hours and hours yet were never charged for perjury, lying or obstruction, even though Mueller proved how easily he would indict anyone who lied as part of the investigation… “As Mueller himself concluded, a reasonable debate can be conducted on whether Trump tried to obstruct his investigation with corrupt intent. But even on the case of obstruction, the central point looms large over all of it: there was no underlying crime established for Trump to cover-up.” Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept From the Right The right sees the report as vindication of President Trump’s claims of innocence, and criticizes Mueller’s analysis of obstruction of justice. “The investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationships with various foreign actors and into the president’s possible obstruction of justice has come to a conclusion, and that conclusion is that there was no criminal collusion and insufficient evidence to support an obstruction prosecution. In a reasonable world, this would be the obvious time to move on… the reasonable conclusion here is to concede that there was smoke (maybe just the smell of smoke) but no fire, that some of Trump’s actions may have been unseemly but that there’s no law against unseemliness.” Kevin Williamson, National Review “Leading Democrats still insist that further investigation is required. Mueller’s investigation involved his own team of 19 lawyers, as well as 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts and forensic accountants. It racked up 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 230 orders for communication records, 50 orders for pen registers, 13 requests for evidence from foreign governments, and interviews with 500 witnesses. Are we to believe that this wasn’t enough?” Hans von Spakovsky, Fox News “The report exposes some Trumpian excesses and lies, but it also shows that, on the most important issue and the charge that started it all, Mr. Trump has been telling the truth. He and his campaign did not conspire or coordinate with Russians to steal the 2016 election. Try as he did to find a crime regarding Russia or obstruction of justice, Mr. Mueller found nothing to prosecute… Mr. Mueller essentially reveals a President behaving in predictable Trumpian fashion at being investigated for a crime he didn’t believe he committed—and which even Mr. Mueller now concedes he didn’t commit. There was no underlying crime, and the investigation continued with full White House cooperation.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal Regarding obstruction, “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… 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.” Andrew McCarthy, National Review “In our system, when the fact finder lacks confidence that a crime has been committed, the party under investigation is deemed not guilty. Mueller has effectively deemed Trump not guilty of obstruction of justice.” Paul Mirengoff, Power Line Blog “Part 2 of the special counsel’s report served solely to indict President Trump in the court of public opinion… [It was a] non-indictment indictment of Trump… But Trump has no process now to clear his name from the taint of obstruction of justice created by Mueller’s report. So, after two years of battling unjust and untrue charges of collusion with Russia, Mueller has destined President Trump to spend the second half of his first term combating claims of obstruction of justice.” Margot Cleveland, The Federalist “The tone and the spirit of the narrative accounts suggest the writer was typing the story in a mood of enraged disbelief. Why is this good? Because it suggests the Mueller team really, really, really wanted to nail Trump with this report. They hate him and they want him gone. And yet… they just couldn’t get to obstruction… “Anti-Trumpers and Democrats can rage all they like from now until 2025 about how the report reveals Trump should be impeached because he’s so rotten, but he’s not going to be because the report does not reveal he committed any crime. Behaving recklessly and irresponsibly and deceitfully is bad, but as is true of so much else about Donald Trump, there isn’t a voter in America who didn’t know he was all of those things on Election Day.” John Podhoretz, Commentary Magazine On the bright side… Snot otter emerges victorious in vote for Pennsylvania’s official amphibian. NPR Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here. |
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. The Truth Around 1,986 years ago today, Jesus was crucified on a cross. No major historian disputes this. Much about Jesus is disputed, but there really is no dispute that Jesus was a real person and that he was crucified. We actually know more about Jesus than many Roman emperors and have more contemporaneous accounts of Jesus […] The post The Truth appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Mueller Report Is Another Stalemate The bad behavior in the report won’t lead to impeachment. Voters will determine Trump’s fate next year. The post Mueller Report Is Another Stalemate appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » We Didn’t Elect Jesus, Did We? Good Friday is not a day to mock God. Roman soldiers stood at the foot of the cross, gambling for his garments. Then darkness fell and the earth quaked. Those same soldiers fell quiet and terrified. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there […] The post We Didn’t Elect Jesus, Did We? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Ecce Homo: Good Friday And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there; And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. The Gospel of Matthew 27:35-37, 45-53 The post Ecce Homo: Good Friday appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Leftists Think Socialism Is A Substitute For Loving Their Neighbor Presidential hopefuls are releasing tax records and, as should have been expected, those who villify capitalism haven’t been charitable toward the poor. In 2017, Senator and Democratic Presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders donated roughly three percent of his exorbitant $566,000 household income. Sanders’ competitor Beto O’Rourke and his wife gave a miserable $1,166 of their $370,412 […] The post Leftists Think Socialism Is A Substitute For Loving Their Neighbor appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » We Need Jesus’ Prayer for Unity Now More than Ever This week, most Christians commemorate – or are at least mindful of – Holy Week, the seven days between Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem for the Passover celebrations and His resurrection. Being on staff at a church, I’ve spent so much of the past few days preparing for our biggest Sunday of the year and […] The post We Need Jesus’ Prayer for Unity Now More than Ever appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Always Check Labels For Allergens People with food allergies must always check labels and ingredient lists on products. Their lives are at risk if they don’t. According to Yahoo! Finance, a family in California is mourning the loss of their daughter. The 11-year-old girl died from anaphylaxis after she was prescribed a toothpaste that contained milk. Denise Saldate’s milk allergy […] The post Always Check Labels For Allergens appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Most Telling Bit of the Mueller Report is the Media Reaction to It There was no collusion. The media is now claiming only the President used that word despite two years of the press claiming there was collusion. The President’s team benefited from Wikileaks releasing damaging information on Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. This is a statement of fact. Any time damaging information is released on an opponent, […] The post The Most Telling Bit of the Mueller Report is the Media Reaction to It appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Barr: Russians Did Not Have the Cooperation of Trump or Trump Campaign The post Barr: Russians Did Not Have the Cooperation of Trump or Trump Campaign appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Trump: I’m Having a Good Day, No Collusion, No Obstruction The post Trump: I’m Having a Good Day, No Collusion, No Obstruction appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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DRIVING THE DAY
THE POST-MUELLER STATE OF PLAY …
— THE MOST DONALD TRUMP thing ever: The president probably would have obstructed justice had he been willing to fire ROBERT MUELLER himself. Instead, the notoriously conflict-averse Trump relied on aides — longtime Washington hands like then-White House counsel Don McGahn — who ignored his request to ax the special counsel.
— @realDonaldTrump, 5:31 p.m. Thursday: “I had the right to end the whole Witch Hunt if I wanted. I could have fired everyone, including Mueller, if I wanted. I chose not to. I had the RIGHT to use Executive Privilege. I didn’t!”
— CAPITOL HILL DEMOCRATS we spoke with Thursday believe Trump has done enough to deserve impeachment, even though they won’t say it publicly. The president tried to curb the Mueller probe on multiple occasions. They know they can’t remove him from office — they’d need 20 Republican senators — and they know that impeachment is not popular. So they’re kind of stuck. Heather Caygle, Sarah Ferris and John Bresnahan on Democrats running from impeachment … NYT’s Nick Fandos: “Democrats Draw Closer to a Dicey Question: Whether to Impeach Trump”
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI scheduled a caucus conference call for Monday, and wrote this in a letter to her colleagues from Ireland, where she is on congressional travel: “The Mueller report states, ‘We concluded Congress has authority to prohibit a president’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice,’ which ‘accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.’ Congress will not be silent.”
ONE THING TO WATCH FOR … Do House Democrats censure Trump? It would be a way to publicly rebuke the president without launching the politically divisive option of impeaching him.
— REPUBLICANS, OF COURSE, ARE THRILLED. They believe there was no smoking gun, and they can see America beginning to move on. More from Melanie Zanona, Sarah Ferris and Burgess Everett
— MANY HILL INSIDERS were surprised at the lack of redactions in the report delivered to Congress.
— THE NEXT TURN OF THE SCREW is going to be A.G. BILL BARR’S testimony to the House and Senate Judiciary committees. Congressional hearings are almost never as useful as they could be. It will be interesting to see if Democrats can keep the process under control.
BIG NYT STORY … PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN: “A Portrait of the White House and Its Culture of Dishonesty”: “The White House that emerges from more than 400 pages of Mr. Mueller’s report is a hotbed of conflict infused by a culture of dishonesty — defined by a president who lies to the public and his own staff, then tries to get his aides to lie for him.” NYT
— THE ORIGINAL HEADLINE was “A Portrait of the White House and Its Culture of Lies”
THE DEAD-TREE FRONT PAGES … NYT: “MUELLER REPORT LAYS OUT RUSSIAN CONTACTS AND TRUMP’S FRANTIC EFFORTS TO FOIL INQUIRY” … WAPO: “Mueller details Russian interference, Trump’s attempts to disrupt probe” … WSJ: “Mueller Report Explains Findings On Obstruction, Conspiracy”
CLICKER: “27 times Trump can’t remember”
Good Friday morning. A BRIEF INTERLUDE … CHECKING IN ON JOHN BOEHNER, via Bloomberg’s Anders Melin and Brandon Kochkodin: “The ex-U.S. House speaker is poised to collect $1.59 million in cash once shareholders approve Canopy Growth Corp.’s acquisition of Acreage Holdings Inc., regulatory filings show.
“If his former colleagues in Congress help make marijuana federally legal, he’d be eligible to receive Canopy shares worth about $16 million as of Thursday’s market close in exchange for his stake in Acreage. Boehner … was appointed to Acreage’s board last year. He currently holds 625,000 shares in the New York-based cannabis company, some of which still haven’t vested.” Bloomberg
WHAT’S ON TRUMP’S MIND — @realDonaldTrump at 10:34 p.m.: “Kimberley Strassel should get the Pulitzer. She is a treasure (and I don’t know her) who correctly called the Russia Hoax right from the start! Others who were soooo wrong will get the Prize. Fake News!”
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BARR VS. MUELLER … JOSH GERSTEIN and DARREN SAMUELSOHN: “Bill Barr and Robert Mueller have been close friends for 30 years, from the Justice Department to family weddings and the Bible-study group attended by both their wives.
“Now they’re anchoring two ends of a legal high-wire act playing out through press conferences, congressional hearings and close-up reviews of the special counsel’s long-awaited findings on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“The bond between the two men has been stressed over the last month amid a volley of letters and closed-door negotiations among their aides. Finally, on Thursday, the release of Mueller’s final report showcased the large amounts of daylight between the veteran law enforcement officials on fundamental questions at the heart of Donald Trump’s presidency.” POLITICO
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RUDY’S FUTURE … DARREN SAMUELSOHN asked Trump lawyer RUDY GIULIANI in a phone interview about his next move, now that the Mueller report is out: “We haven’t talked about it. I don’t know. I’ve got a lot of other things to do. There will probably be less time spent on it. I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it. …
“This has [gone on for] a long time and taken away from things I earn money with like practicing law elsewhere. I expect for sure I’ll cut down the time and maybe phase out. We’ll see. It depends on what’s there and who’s around. I’m a close friend [of Trump’s]. I still talk to him once or twice a week anyway.”
CONWAY VS. CONWAY, MEDICAL EDITION — Here’s KELLYANNE on Fox News, Thursday afternoon: “This has been a political proctology exam, and [Trump’s] emerging with a clean bill of health.”
— And here’s GEORGE in a WaPo op-ed, Thursday evening: “Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him.” (Bio line: “George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York.”) WaPo
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SNITCHES GET STITCHES — “Trump allies who spoke freely to Mueller now in awkward position: Unlike a juicy newspaper story, the special counsel report names its sources,” by Andrew Restuccia, Gabby Orr and Daniel Lippman
— “Just Some of the Times Mueller Documents Trump Insiders Lying to the Press,” by Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon and Ben Wofford
TOP TWEET — NYT’S MAGGIE HABERMAN (@maggieNYT): “An irony of the picture painted by the second volume of the Mueller report — for all the ‘burn it to the ground’ populism that Bannon is publicly associated with, he repeatedly is cited as preventing Trump from potentially crossing legal lines re Mueller.”
CHEAT SHEET — “The Mueller Report Is 448 Pages Long. You Need to Know These 7 Key Things,” by NYT’s Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman
— MIKE BLOOMBERG in Bloomberg Opinion: “Mueller Did His Job. Now It’s Our Turn: Americans know all they need to know when they next go to the polls.”
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2020 WATCH — THE ATLANTIC’S ISAAC DOVERE: “Joe Biden Is Running for President”: “The former vice president will make his candidacy official with a video announcement next Wednesday, according to people familiar with the discussions who have been told about them by top aides. …
“Biden’s announcement video will draw in part on footage shot two weeks ago outside his old family home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he likes to bring people and tell stories about how his grandfather would sit at the kitchen table, talking about making ends meet.
“But the campaign is still making key decisions on what will happen next, including whether to go cute for a launch event by doing it on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, famous for the training montage from ‘Rocky,’ or whether to go for a powerful challenge directed right at Donald Trump by heading to Charlottesville, Virginia, where Trump infamously blamed ‘both sides’ of a neo-Nazi march in August 2017.” The Atlantic
— “Biden: Time to ‘take back’ the country,” by Stephanie Murray in Boston: “Joe Biden said on Thursday that it was time to ‘take back’ the country and treat the middle class with respect, as the former vice president warms up for a likely 2020 presidential run. ‘I’m getting so sick and tired of the way everybody’s being treated,’ Biden told a crowd of striking union workers here.
“‘We will take back this country. … I mean it. Don’t give up. Keep it going.’ Biden made the remarks at a union rally in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, where some of the 31,000 union workers for the New England-based Stop & Shop supermarket chain walked off the job last week after contract negotiations fell apart.” POLITICO
TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president has nothing on his public schedule. He’s in Palm Beach.
— WAPO’S JOSH DAWSEY (@jdawsey1): “White House aide notes it’s supposed to rain in Palm Beach all day [Friday].”
PLAYBOOK READS
BRAIN FOOD — “The Surprises in the Mueller Report: So what did we really learn about Trump, Russia and the power of the presidency? Some of the nation’s top legal minds unpack the document of the decade.” POLITICO Magazine
HILLARY’S TEAM WEIGHS IN — “Clintonworld stews over Mueller report,” by Alex Thompson:“‘Apparently it’s not criminal to help foreign agents carry out their plans to disrupt an election,’ said campaign manager Robby Mook. ‘I wish instead of just relitigating the past we would spend some time crafting laws to prevent this in the future.’ … Clinton spokespeople Jennifer Palmieri and Brian Fallon tweeted that impeachment hearings ought to be opened.” POLITICO
NATASHA BERTRAND, “When Trump won, Putin deployed his oligarchs”: “Mueller’s nearly 450-page report granularly describes … how [Russian President Vladimir] Putin explicitly encouraged his country’s wealthiest and most powerful businessmen to make contact with Trump’s transition team after the election. The directives help explain the ‘flurry’ of contact the oligarchs made with Trump’s associates in the weeks following the reality TV star’s unexpected victory, Mueller wrote.” POLITICO
WHAT WALL STREET IS READING — “Mueller Says UBS Executive Told Trump Team of Kremlin ‘Approach,’” by Bloomberg’s Max Abelson: “Wall Street executives combing through Robert Mueller’s report will notice the name of one of their own: Bob Foresman. He’s an investment banking vice chairman in New York at UBS Group AG, the biggest Swiss bank, after earlier stints working for Barclays Plc and Renaissance Capital in Moscow.
“Two sections of the 400-plus-page report describe efforts by Foresman: He unsuccessfully tried to meet with Donald Trump during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about a Kremlin request, and later he used his Russia knowledge to pursue a job in the administration.” Bloomberg
ELON UPDATE … WAPO’S MICHAEL LARIS: “Elon Musk’s latest plan: Two 35-mile tunnels from D.C. to Baltimore”: “[T]he electric-car pioneer’s latest … plan … is to build two 35-mile tunnels from Washington to Baltimore that would carry autonomous Teslas or their corporate cousins at 150 miles per hour, on rubber tires, getting from city to city in about 15 minutes.” WaPo
— “[T]he proposed station terminals would be located on New York Avenue, northwest of D.C.’s Union Station, and in the Camden Yards area of downtown Baltimore.” POLITICO
TRADE WIN — “U.S. wins WTO ruling against China grain import quotas”: Reuters
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TRADE REALITY CHECK — “Trump’s Mexico-Canada deal would bring minimal economic gains, trade agency says,” by Sabrina Rodríguez and Megan Cassella: “The new pact, which President Donald Trump has portrayed as a ‘truly groundbreaking achievement,’ would raise U.S. GDP by $68.2 billion, or 0.35 percent, by the sixth year after it enters into force, the independent panel found. The USMCA would also create 176,000 U.S. jobs, increasing employment by 0.12 percent, according to the analysis.
“The ITC’s highly anticipated assessment of the replacement deal for NAFTA is expected to drive debate as the USMCA is considered on Capitol Hill and discussed in 2020 election campaigns. But the report’s forecast of a minimal increase in the GDP could make it more difficult for Trump to sell the deal to Democrats and labor groups, who have been pushing for a number of changes before the agreement gets a vote.” POLITICO … Read the report (PDF)
IMMIGRATION LATEST … NYT’S SIMON ROMERO in Albuquerque:“A right-wing militia group operating in southern New Mexico has begun stopping groups of migrant families and detaining them at gunpoint before handing them over to Border Patrol agents, raising tension over the tactics of armed vigilantes along the border between the United States and Mexico.
“Members of the group, which calls itself the United Constitutional Patriots, filmed several of their actions in recent days, including the detention this week of a group of about 200 migrants who had recently crossed the border near Sunland Park, N.M., with the intention of seeking asylum. They uploaded videos to social media of exhausted looking migrant families, blinking in the darkness in the glare of what appeared to be the militia’s spotlights.” NYT
WHERE THEY ARE NOW – “Scott Pruitt left the EPA mired in scandal. Now he is lobbying Indiana lawmakers,” by the Indianapolis Star’s Emily Hopkins: “Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. [EPA], registered Thursday as a lobbyist with state regulators. Pruitt’s filings with the Indiana Lobby Registration Commission identify him as a self-employed consultant and list RailPoint Solutions LLC as his sole client. His lobbying topics include ‘energy’ and ‘natural resources.’” Indy Star
NEXT UP — “Trump Administration to Launch New Opioid-Addiction Initiative,” by WSJ’s Thomas Burton: “The Trump administration is launching a $350 million opioid-addiction research and treatment initiative to reduce opioid-overdose deaths by as much as 40% in communities in four particularly hard-hit states. The three-year research and treatment project, the latest in a series of moves by the government to address the opioid-abuse epidemic, will focus on as many as 60 towns in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.” WSJ
VALLEY TALK — “Federal investigation of Facebook could hold Mark Zuckerberg accountable on privacy, sources say,” by WaPo’s Tony Romm: “Federal regulators investigating Facebook for mishandling its users’ personal information have set their sights on the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, exploring his past statements on privacy and weighing whether to seek new, heightened oversight of his leadership.
“The discussions about how to hold Zuckerberg accountable for Facebook’s data lapses have come in the context of wide-ranging talks between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook that could settle the government’s more than year-old probe.” WaPo
MEDIAWATCH — WAPO’S SARAH ELLISON: “American Media Inc. is selling the National Enquirer for $100 million to James Cohen, CEO of Hudson News, ending an association between a longtime friend of President Trump and the tabloid that illegally attempted to bury embarrassing news about Trump during the 2016 election. …
“The decision to sell came after Anthony Melchiorre, the hedge-fund manager whose firm controls AMI, became disillusioned with the reporting tactics of the Enquirer and the legal and political pressure that resulted from them, according to people familiar with the deliberations.” WaPo
REMEMBERING JAMES MCCORD — WaPo’s Emily Langer, Harrison Smith and Kate Morgan: “James W. McCord Jr., a retired CIA employee who was convicted as a conspirator in the Watergate burglary and later linked the 1972 break-in to the White House in revelations that helped end the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, died June 15, 2017, at his home in Douglassville, Pa. He was 93. … Mr. McCord’s death was first reported in ‘Dirty Tricks,’ a 2018 history of the Watergate investigation by filmmaker Shane O’Sullivan.
“But the news did not appear in local or national media outlets … Mr. McCord served in the CIA for 19 years, including as chief of the agency’s physical security division, before his supporting, at times sensational role in the events that precipitated the first resignation in history of a U.S. president.” WaPo
PLAYBOOKERS
SUNDAY SO FAR …
- FOX “Fox News Sunday”: Rudy Giuliani … Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) … Panel: Jason Riley, Jane Harman, Gillian Turner and Bob Woodward. Power Player classic: Marlon Bundo, the Pence family bunny
- CBS “Face the Nation”: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) … Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Panel: Lynne Olson, Susan Page, Evan Thomas and Robert Caro (guest host: Bob Schieffer)
- NBC “Meet the Press”: Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.). Panel: Jonah Goldberg, Hallie Jackson, Joshua Johnson and Amy Walter
- CNN “State of the Union”: Rudy Giuliani. Panel: Barbara Comstock, Jennifer Granholm, Scott Jennings and Symone Sanders
- CNN “Inside Politics”: Michael Shear, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Manu Raju and Rachael Bade
SPOTTED: Ivanka Trump in Dulles airport Thursday afternoon after arriving back from her four-day trip to Africa, where she visited Ethiopia and Cote d’Ivoire.
OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at the 40th birthday party for Marty Obst on Thursday night at the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton: VP Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, Rep. Greg Pence (R-Ind.), Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Morgan Ortagus, CMS Administrator Seema Verma, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Boris Epshteyn, Jeff Miller, Majida Mourad and Dave Bossie.
— SPOTTED Thursday night at the home of Jim and Kate Lehrer to celebrate Erik Tarloff’s book “The Woman in Black” ($17.70 on Amazon): Laura Tyson, Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Margaret Carlson, Elizabeth Drew, Afsaneh Beschloss, Vernon and Ann Jordan, Melanne and Phil Verveer, Gordon Peterson, Peter Hart, Tom O’Donnell, Michael Kinsley, Sarah Newhall and Elliot Tarloff, Anne Lewis and Carolyn Peachey.
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Zach Zaragoza, state director for Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) (hat tip: Zach Hudson) … (was Wednesday): Jonathan Brodo
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Felix Gillette, enterprise editor for Bloomberg News’ media, entertainment and telecom team and a writer for Bloomberg Businessweek. How he got his start in journalism: “About a year after graduating from college, I got an internship at the Washington City Paper that eventually turned into a full-time job. I’d grown up in the District, and being a staffer at the City Paper was a license to write at insane lengths about any D.C.-centric topic that struck my fancy — dueling hot dog vendors, despotic historic preservationists, intractable rat populations, Smithsonian taxidermy, Mussolini’s brain, Marion Barry, Danny Wuerffel.” Playbook Plus Q&A
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Mueller says messaging apps likely destroyed Trump-Russia evidence
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III concluded that there was insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against individuals connected with President Donald Trump’s campaign for their ties to Russia, but he said the investigation faced numerous challenges, including technological ones, in establishing a full picture of what transpired in 2015 and 2016. Read More…
Mueller report is a reminder that Russian hack hit House races, too
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report provided new details Thursday about how Russian agents hacked into Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee computers in 2016, renewing the question of whether the two parties would agree not to use stolen material in future political attacks. Read More…
What happened when I went to a baseball game instead of reading the Mueller report
You didn’t have to venture far from the Capitol on Thursday to find a crowd of Washingtonians who weren’t overwhelmed by the Mueller report. Read More…
Mueller report shows Trump aides routinely ignored his orders on crucial matters
Presidential orders given but often ignored. Ample cursing. Aides working behind the scenes to protect Donald Trump from his own anger and impulsiveness. And an effort to prevent the president from firing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III despite his determination to do so. Read More…
House Democrats press on with investigations after Mueller report release
President Donald Trump might be claiming vindication with the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia report, but House Democrats are moving forward with their investigations of him and people in his orbit. Read More…
Mueller report’s second act: congressional scrutiny
CQ legal affairs reporter Todd Ruger says House Democrats now have plenty of leads from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report to investigate, especially as to whether President Donald Trump sought to obstruct justice. Listen here…
Democratic 2020 hopefuls aim political firepower on Barr
Democrats looking to succeed President Donald Trump picked up a new target on Thursday: Attorney General William Barr. Read More…
One thing Barr didn’t redact: the f-bomb
The special counsel’s report may be groaning with redactions, but there’s one thing the Justice Department didn’t blot out — profanity. Read More…
Hey! Robert Mueller relies on CQ
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There Was No Collusion and There Was No Obstruction After much anticipation, the Mueller report was released yesterday after 22 months of investigation in – at first – possible Russian collusion by President Trump to steal the election. The investigation came up short on collusion and went down the rabbit hole chasing an obstruction charge but also found nothing. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy breaks down exactly how badly Robert Mueller biffed this entire process in the New York Post. “The most remarkable thing about special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report is how blithely the prosecutor reversed the burden of proof on the issue of obstruction.” “In his report, Mueller didn’t resolve the issue. If he had been satisfied that there was no obstruction crime, he said, he would have so found. He claimed he wasn’t satisfied. Yet he was also not convinced that there was sufficient proof to charge. Therefore, he made no decision, leaving it to Attorney General William Barr to find that there was no obstruction. This is unbecoming behavior for a prosecutor and an outrageous shifting of the burden of proof: The constitutional right of every American to force the government to prove a crime has been committed, rather than to have to prove his or her own innocence.” Mueller and company dragging the American people along for an almost two-year circus which proved to be nothing more than a pathetic partisan attempt to undermine the President is definitely annoying. But the real villains in this tale are the “journalists” of the mainstream media who willfully participated in this completely fabricated fairytale from day one. They decided they would do anything to remove Trump from his elected post as President, even if it meant completely beclowning themselves. Even after the report was released yesterday, journalists were grabbing at any straw to make their former claims seem even remotely legitimate in the face of actual facts. Madeline Osburn at The Federalist highlighted some of the craziest claims by members of the media. This list includes one particularly challenged claimant who says that “Innocent people don’t need memes” in response to Donald Trump’s “Game of Thrones” inspired meme yesterday. David Marcus points out that the real bombshell from yesterday’s report was actually Russia’s social media campaign, which of course also duped the media. (The Federalist): “Conducted by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian government-backed social media troll farm, the extent and reach of the operations is astounding. Collectively, the report says, “The IRA’s social media accounts reached 10s of millions of US persons.” It also controlled Facebook groups such as “United Muslims of America,” that had 300,000 followers when it was shut down in 2017. In total the report says that at least 29 million and perhaps as many as 126 million people were reached by the propaganda campaigns. The danger of this is not merely that the propaganda might help determine the outcome of viewers’ voting decisions. What is far worse is that, on that scale, the Russians can make fringe, divisive positions and rhetoric appear to Americans to be, if not mainstream, at least vastly more prominent than they really are. Even the news media was not immune to these efforts. The report outlines that on multiple occasions ‘U.S. media outlets also quoted tweets from IRA-controlled accounts and attributed them to the reactions of real U.S. persons.’ It is very possible, if not likely that the real target of the IRA was not to sway an election, but rather to sow discord and distrust among Americans. And it looks like the news media was an unwitting accomplice.” More Hot Mueller Report Links Book Publishers scramble to make deals to make book versions of the report. (The Washington Post) Sean Davis shares the full Mueller report with some extremely insightful commentary. (The Federalist) Here is a full break down of everything the self-congratulatory media got wrong. (LoveBreedsAccountability) Friday Entertainment Center Jodie Comer truly is killing it as Villanelle on “Killing Eve”. (Slate) “Avengers: Endgame” is spending over $200 Million on their promotional campaign – the most ever for Marvel. (Deadline) MoviePass lost over 90% of their subscribers in just a year. (Variety) Quentin Tarantino was expected to premiere his new movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” at Cannes Film Festival next month but has yet to submit the movie. (Yahoo) The Cannes Film Festival promises to be “very political”. (Variety) Here is my review on Netflix’s spy drama, “Traitors”. (The Federalist) The complete guide to all 2019 T.V. show pilots! (The Hollywood Reporter) Here are 15 fan theories for the final season of “Game of Thrones”. (The Federalist) As no one was killed on “Game of Thrones” this past Sunday, there is still time to play along with us on season eight predictions! (The Federalist) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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04/19/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Where’s Strzok? USMCA vs. NAFTA; Quote of the Week By Carl M. Cannon on Apr 19, 2019 08:15 am Good morning, it’s Friday, April 19, 2019, the day when I provide an end-of-the week quote to provide inspiration for the weekend. That’s tricky today, as April 19 is a momentous — and often lethal — day in U.S. history. Many of the most pivotal events have a New England connection: The American Revolution became a shooting war on Lexington Green on this date in 1775; the first blood was let in the Civil War on April 19, 1861 when a secessionist mob in Baltimore attacked a train carrying Union troops from Massachusetts. Known as Patriots’ Day in the Bay State, it’s also when the first Boston Marathon was run in 1897. April 19 is the culminating date of the deadly 1993 government siege at Waco, Texas — and the bombing by domestic terrorists of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City two years later. This is also Tax Week, and today’s quote concerns the mixed feelings Americans have about paying their fair share — or any share. First, though, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Mueller “Strzok Out” With His Whitewash Report. Frank Miele assails the investigation for failing to examine the “insurance policy” Peter Strzok and other FBI officials hinted at having in case Donald Trump was elected. USMCA vs. NAFTA: The Old Deal With New Letters. In RealClearMarkets, Allan Golombek spotlights the new report from the U.S International Trade Commission. Activists’ Lawsuits Don’t Help the Climate or California. In RealClearEnergy, Theresa Harvey argues that anti-fossil fuel litigation in the Golden State is counterproductive. Green Deals Won’t Save the World, But Access to Energy Will. Also in RCE, Jason Isaac discusses the overlooked effects of energy poverty. Look to States, Not the Swamp, to Solve Political Political Problems. Rachel Barkley explains in RealClearPolicy. Five Facts: The President’s Power to Reorganize Government. Also in RCPolicy, No Labels has this primer in light of Trump’s proposal to eliminate the Office of Personnel Management. How Trudeau’s Scandals Are Hurting Venezuela. In RealClearWorld, Benjamin Gedan and Nicolas Saldias lament that the prime minister’s troubles have disrupted Canada’s willingness to shape the international response to the Maduro regime. * * * Taxes have always played a distinctive role in the American psyche. Although most Americans tend to view taxes as a necessary evil, there’s never been a consensus about how much we should pay, or even who should pay. Edmund Burke (who wasn’t an American but provided inspiration to our rebellion) gave voice to that sentiment, as have others, including several U.S. presidents. “The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation,” Andrew Jackson noted in 1832, “that would operate with perfect equality.” Fair enough, onetime U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon conceded. But Simon suggested in 1977 that Americans are entitled to “a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.” (Before I continue, I should give credit where it’s due: These quotes were unearthed by the incomparable Fred R. Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations.) Little is new in the debate over taxes. John Adams noted in an 1818 letter to a friend that Founding Father James Otis insisted during the revolution that “taxation without representation is tyranny.” This line is used today by Washington, D.C., residents while agitating for a voice in the U.S. Senate. As early as 1787, Thomas Paine warned of one natural result of a muscular foreign policy. “War,” he wrote, “involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances … that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.” That is still true today. In addition, the rate of taxation has been debated through the ages. One defender of the Democrats’ longstanding “soak the rich” impulse was himself a very rich man. “Why shouldn’t the American people take half my money from me?” retail magnate (and unrepentant New Dealer) Edward A. Filene said. “I took all of it from them.” Elizabeth Warren, call your speechwriters. Another longstanding source of controversy is estate taxes. “Nothing is certain,” goes the old adage popularized by Benjamin Franklin, “except death and taxes.” But wasn’t death supposed to end one’s obligation to the taxman? Apparently not, and that’s a touchy subject Will Rogers handled with his customary wit: “I don’t see why a man shouldn’t pay an inheritance tax,” he quipped in 1926. “If a country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it’s good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.” But I promised you an Edmund Burke quote, so here it is: Opining on this date in 1774 about taxation in America, Burke wrote: “To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.” It’s a sentiment every member of Congress can relate to… and it’s our quote of the week. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com |
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- Posobiec: Maduro negotiating with Spain on Venezuela exit strategy
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| Trump attacks Mueller report Posted: 19 Apr 2019 05:32 AM PDT Yesterday was joyful celebration for most Trump supporters as the Mueller report further reinforced what we’ve already been told, that no collusion occurred between the President’s campaign and the Russians during the 2016 election and that the obstruction case was too flimsy to make anything stick. President Trump celebrated with a meme and declared that […] The post Trump attacks Mueller report appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| It’s only Friday – Sunday’s comin’ Posted: 19 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT Today is Good Friday, the day on which Christians remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Why is it called Good Friday? Possibly because the word “good” used to mean “holy.” However, regardless of its origins, it is recognized around the world as a day to remember the death of the Son of Man […] The post It’s only Friday – Sunday’s comin’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| A Japanese F-35 is missing and that’s a very big deal! Posted: 19 Apr 2019 01:31 AM PDT While America’s elected officials of both political parties obsess over a nothingburger political scandal, meanwhile on the other side of the Pacific Ocean our warfighting capabilities and that of our allies are seriously threatened. A Japanese F-35A fighter aircraft has gone missing! Media coverage has predominantly been from sources in the Asia-Pacific Theater. Following are […] The post A Japanese F-35 is missing and that’s a very big deal! appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Dear Democrats, bring on the impeachment! Posted: 18 Apr 2019 11:59 PM PDT There is no doubting how accurate a previous column by our own EIC, JD Rucker, was. Its very title captured the reactions before the report was public. But perhaps the Mueller Report enhancing the public’s preconceived biases was low hanging fruit. However, I daresay the intensity of the Democrats’ reactions were underestimated, and I further […] The post Dear Democrats, bring on the impeachment! appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Posobiec: Maduro negotiating with Spain on Venezuela exit strategy Posted: 18 Apr 2019 08:30 PM PDT Contested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may be exploring options to leave the country and move to the safety of Spain, according to an One America News report from Jack Posobiec. Speaking to Americans for Intelligence Reform president Brad Johnson, the two discussed a possible exit strategy that would put Maduro in Spain and leave the […] The post Posobiec: Maduro negotiating with Spain on Venezuela exit strategy appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Following Mueller report, President Trump calls for tables to be turned in new video Posted: 18 Apr 2019 07:37 PM PDT The Mueller saga is far from over with the majority of leftists trying to find something onto which they can latch. Some are calling for impeachment. Others are calling for further investigations into what Robert Mueller left open to interpretation. But on Trump’s side, it’s time to celebrate. But it isn’t just about feeling good […] The post Following Mueller report, President Trump calls for tables to be turned in new video appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Sometimes it’s the little wrongs that stick Posted: 18 Apr 2019 07:03 PM PDT I was a pretty cocky kid. It’s something that I get to hear a lot lately, especially when connecting with old friends from high school and college. I remember thinking that I wouldn’t be that guy, the one who looks back while on the second half of a standard life and calls himself stupid, but […] The post Sometimes it’s the little wrongs that stick appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Border patrol spots drone used to help illegal immigrants breach the border Posted: 18 Apr 2019 06:51 PM PDT Human smuggling has gone high tech. At least it can be verified. At this point, it’s likely people have been using drone technology to assist in getting illegal immigrants across the border for a long time. It’s been used for drug trafficking as well, so thinking this is a new occurrence is likely erroneous. But […] The post Border patrol spots drone used to help illegal immigrants breach the border appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Trey Gowdy on the future of investigations in wake of Mueller report Posted: 18 Apr 2019 05:57 PM PDT Former Congressman Trey Gowdy took to Fox News to talk to Martha MacCallum about the release of Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference from 2016. His interview was arguably the most impressive take on the release so far. As MacCallum notes, the divide really started with the Bill Clinton impeachment. Lawmakers ran to their […] The post Trey Gowdy on the future of investigations in wake of Mueller report appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Dear DC, media: Put the Mueller distraction behind us and focus on actual problems Posted: 18 Apr 2019 03:17 PM PDT Today has been loaded with heated social media exchanges. It doesn’t matter whether you’re on one of the edges supporting or denouncing the President after the release of the Mueller report or if you’re in the middle. If you have an opinion that anyone hears, there’s a good chance you’ll get an earful. Earlier, I […] The post Dear DC, media: Put the Mueller distraction behind us and focus on actual problems appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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From NBC’s Chuck Todd and Carrie Dann
FIRST READ: The Mueller report is out. What do Democrats do next?
There’s one all-consuming question for the Democratic Party now that the Mueller report has been released: What now?
The ball is in Congress’s court. And Democrats are about to face a huge split about whether to pursue an impeachment proceeding with obvious political downsides, or to pass on the opportunity to set a historic precedent and hold the president accountable.
Members of Congress often say that they want to serve in a time of consequence. Well, it doesn’t get more consequential than this.
On the one hand: Democratic 2020 candidates have been reflecting the reality on the ground, which is that voters don’t seem to have much appetite for impeachment at all. That’s reflected in public polling, too, and there’s a clear risk than an impeachment fight would be perceived as Democrats overplaying their hand.
Nancy Pelosi knows all of that.
But congressional leaders also face the opposite question: Without trying to hold the president accountable, what might they be mainstreaming for the future?
If they let this go, do they normalize this type of presidential behavior in the future?
If they don’t pursue impeachment, what message are they sending about what a president can get away with?
It’s a political dilemma, but also an ethical one.
What’s the right thing to do here, if you’re a Democratic leader? And does the right POLITICAL decision align with the right ETHICAL one when it comes to the long arc of history?
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
How Trump desensitized America long before the Mueller report
So
much of the commentary around the Mueller report has revolved around
the parsing of legal arguments about collusion and obstruction.
But beyond the legal weeds, this glaring picture remains:
Trump and key members of his team showed themselves in this report to be
unbothered by foreign interference in U.S. elections, unconcerned
about following the letter or the spirit of the laws about the conduct of a campaign, and unencumbered
by the obligation to tell the truth to the American people.
And we’ve
already been so desensitized to it, because so much of the evidence
Mueller provided was either reported contemporaneously or simply uttered
in public.
The report lays out that:
- Trump’s campaign hoped and expected to benefit from information stolen and released by Russian efforts.
- Members of his team were “receptive” to some offers of assistance to the campaign from Russia, and they failed to report any of it to any authorities.
- Trump consistently urged aides to make public statements with which they disagreed or were uncomfortable.
- He repeatedly encouraged people on his team to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails. Leading that effort, Michael Flynn asked two campaign supporters for help, which included trolling the “dark web.”
- He directly encouraged his Attorney General to investigate a political foe (Hillary Clinton).
- He and his associates publicly and privately dangled the possibility of pardons to witnesses in the investigation.
- At least three aides — Sarah Sanders, KT McFarland and Reince Priebus — knowingly disseminated false information to the press.
Any of those items, taken alone, would seem earth-shattering if they were suddenly being revealed by Mueller’s team for the first time.
But
we’ve known the broad contours of that behavior for so long, either
because it leaked (like Trump ordering Don McGahn to fire Mueller, but
backing
off when he threatened to resign), or because Trump said it aloud (like
his tweets about his displeasure with Jeff Sessions or his professed
enthusiasm for Wikileaks)
So, many of the most damning parts of the report were things we already knew.
But seeing them all in one place is a reminder of this administration’s crisis of credibility.
With so many instances of misleading the press and the public, it’s hard to see how this White House ever gets the benefit of the doubt — on anything — again.
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … at least 11
At least 11.
That’s the number of people in Trump’s orbit who the Mueller report shows did NOT go along with a potentially problematic request from the president.
The Special Counsel stated that: “The president’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out his orders to accede to his requests.”
Who are those “persons”? Here’s the list our White House unit put together:
Don McGahn: Refused to ask Rosenstein to fire Mueller and threatened to resign instead after president had asked him to do “crazy s***”
James Comey: Did not, as Trump asked, publicly push back on the suggestion the president had a connection to Russian election interference
Corey Lewandowski: Did not deliver Trump’s message to Sessions that he should confine the Russia investigation to future election interference only
Rick Dearborn: Did not deliver Trump’s message to Sessions that he should confine the Russia investigation to future election interference only
Dan Coats: Refused to say publicly that no link existed between President Trump and Russia after he was asked to in Oval Office 2017 meeting
Rob Porter: Did not reach out to Rachel Brand, to discuss possibility of installing her as AG to remove Sessions and end investigation, because he was “uncomfortable with the task”
Jeff Sessions: Recused himself, despite the president asking him not to, and stayed recused, even when he was later asked by Trump to “unrecuse”
Chris Christie: Did not follow through with the president’s request to call Comey and “tell him that the President still really like[s] him” the day after Flynn resigned
Rod Rosenstein: Refused to do a press conference, at the president’s direction, that it was all his [Rosenstein’s] idea to fire Comey, and later told other DOJ officials that he would not participate in putting out a “false story”
James Clapper: Refused to make a public statement refuting allegations in Steele dossier, per an email from Clapper to Comey
KT McFarland: Ultimately did not write an internal letter stating that the president had not directed Flynn to discuss sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
One thing that stands out to us in that list? Most of those people are no longer part of the administration. If they were the guardrails then, who are the guardrails now?
Another thing that stands out: Trump might not be a fan of Reince Priebus and Don McGahn today, but he should be thanking them. The team Priebus put together — and particularly the hiring of McGahn — may have been the only thing that saved Trump from his own worst impulses on obstruction.
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2020 VISION: Yes, it looks like Biden is a go for next week
There’s some fresh buzz today about a Biden announcement coming next week after a new piece in the Atlantic cites a possible Wednesday kickoff.
Our own Mike Memoli has been reporting about a possible announcement next week, too, and we know that Biden has already filmed a video at his childhood home in Scranton.
Our question: What’s the big picture opening message for Biden’s entry into this race?
That he’s the unifier who can convince both sides to recognize each other’s decency again?
The crusader who’ll fight a lofty “battle for the soul of this nation”
The brawler who once said he would have fought Trump in high school (a statement he later said he regretted.)
A return to normalcy?
And it looks like Biden’s own CAMPAIGN hasn’t figured out that message yet.
The
Atlantic reports that the campaign is weighing a more lighthearted
announcement on the “Rocky” steps in Philadelphia OR one in
Charlottesville to take on Trump
on race and division. Those are two radically different opening
messages. One’s upbeat and hopeful, and one is solemn and weighty.
That sure seems like
a huge decision to be indecisive about less than a week before go time.
On the campaign trail today: Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg are in New Hampshire …. Tim Ryan and Kirsten Gillibrand campaign in Iowa… Cory Booker is in Nevada… and Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are both in South Carolina.
On the campaign trail Saturday: Buttigieg remains in New Hampshire, where Elizabeth Warren will also be campaigning…. Booker and Jay Inslee are in the Nevada… Ryan remains in Iowa, and Sanders and Harris remain in South Carolina.
On the campaign trail Sunday: Kamala Harris heads to Easter service in Columbia, South Carolina.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Crab dip
THE LID: Ch-ch-ch changes?
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we talked about the likelihood — or not — that the Mueller report will move the needle on public opinion
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
Mueller! Mueller! Mueller! The big event drowned out pretty much every other news story this week.
But don’t miss these overlooked stories via NBC’s Kyle Stewart, which would have received much more attention in other eras:
The Interior Department has opened an investigation of its new secretary, David Bernhardt.
Trump vetoed a measure to end U.S. involvement in the Yemen war
Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
Following an NBC News investigation, HUD will now require carbon monoxide detectors in public housing
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| IT BEGINS: Adam Schiff Formally Invites Mueller to Testify, Says Public ‘Deserves the Facts’ House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff formally invited Robert Mueller to testify before his committee Thursday; saying the American people “deserve the facts” after the special counsel’s two-year investigation into Russia collusion.“The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation,” posted Schiff on social media. “After a… |
| COLLUSION DELUSION: Pelosi, Schumer SLAM the Attorney General’s ‘Partisan’ Mueller Report Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Attorney General William Barr’s “partisan handling” of Robert Mueller’s final report Thursday; dismissing his findings hours before the document is released to Congressional leaders.“Attorney General Barr’s regrettably partisan handling of the Mueller report, including his slanted March 24th summary letter, his… |
| CORY’S CONSPIRACY: Booker Says DOJ Posted ‘Unsearchable’ Version of Mueller Report So It’s ‘Harder to Read’ Sen. Cory Booker found another anti-Trump conspiracy theory to promote Thursday; bizarrely suggesting the Department of Justice intentionally published an “unsearchable” version of the Mueller report “so it would be harder to read.”“The Trump administration posted an unsearchable pdf of the Mueller report so it would be harder for you to read,” posted… |
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