Redacted Mueller report
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, July 3, 2025 23:09
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Barr says it will be "lightly" redacted and available on the DOJ website. Not trying to be a tease, just making a place-holder for the link when the report becomes avaiable. That way we can split out the discussion of the report from other topics which might obscure the discussion.
If someone manages to grab the link before I do (will be busy today); I expected the link to be available already but won't be checking on it very often) please post it, thanks.
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Listen to the official audiobook of the Mueller report, read by Leslie Brickhill and a very special guest.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
I think this works. I can always count on ZH to grab things fast.
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Quote:Then lie about it...
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
I think this works. I can always count on ZH to grab things fast.
A factual search reveals a terrible track record with IFCN fact checkers. There are too many failed checks to list here.
Overall, we rate Zero Hedge an extreme right biased conspiracy website.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/
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That was a nice bit of kabuki theater on Barr's part.
He's doing what he was hired to do: Cover up the crimes.
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Placeholder.
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Quote:When Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked." (p. 290 of the PDF)
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Placeholder.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/5955210-Redacted-Mueller-Report.html
www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2019/04/18/the-report-is-out-
trump-tried-to-remove-mueller-426190
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It's posted on Daily Mail.
It just affirms what everyone already knows, Trump and everyone around him lied their asses off. Non-guilty people don't need to lie and delete communications...
pg 18 The investigation established that several individuals associated with the campaign lied (and deleted relevant communications) to the Office and to Congress about their interactions with Russian affiliated individuals and related matters
pg 418 We viewed the written answers to be inadequate.
However, appendix D on transferred cases still has a lot of redacted names yet to be charged.
I will be interested how Cohen fills in the blanks there.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6937379/How-White-House-couns
el-Don-McGahn-ordered-President-Trump-fire-Robert-Mueller.html
President Trump called Don McGahn in 2017 and wanted him to tell acting AG Rod Rosenstein that Mueller had a conflict of interest and had to be fired
Trump called McGahn a second time to follow up and said something like, 'Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be the Special Counsel'
‘McGahn did not carry out the direction...deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre,’ according to the report
Trump also met his former campaign chief Corey Lewandowski and dictated a message to Sessions to publicly announce the investigation was 'very unfair'
Lewandowski never delivered the message, rather passed it to deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn who also did not relay the message to Sessions
Sure sounds like intent to obstruct to me.
Isn't asking people to do something illegal when you are president...I dunno... illegal???
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Quote:Mueller actually looked at exactly this point. He didn't indict only because the rules he works under forbid him from indicting a President. Indicting a President is left to Congress. (The political calculus: the Democratic House won't vote to indict because the GOP Senate won't vote to convict. Instead, the 2020 Election decides Trump's fate. House majority leader Steny Hoyer said that Democrats wouldn’t move to impeach and would instead wait for the American people to weigh in by voting in 2020.
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
Sure sounds like intent to obstruct to me.
Isn't asking people to do something illegal when you are president...I dunno... illegal???
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/439603-hoyer-impeachment-not-worthw
hile-after-seeing-mueller-report )
What was Mueller's conclusion?
Mueller Found “Corrupt Intent” Repeatedly in Donald Trump’s Actions Toward the Russia Investigation
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/04/mueller-found-corrupt-intent-re
peatedly-in-donald-trumps-actions-toward-the-russia-investigation/
In his report, Special Counsel Robert Mueller concludes that nothing in statute or the Constitution shields a president from obstruction-of-justice charges. (Again, Mueller was operating under rules forbidding him, but not Congress, from indicting a President.) Obstruction-of-justice charges, for example, wouldn’t have a “chilling” effect on a president because they require a showing of corrupt motive, which “sets a demanding standard.” That standard rules out obstruction charges related to actions a president takes for political or policy reasons. “For instance, the President’s decision to curtail a law-enforcement investigation to avoid international friction would not implicate the obstruction-of-justice statutes.”
(Page 394 of pdf)
However, direct or indirect action to influence an investigation in order to avoid “personal embarrassment or legal liability” for himself or his family would qualify as corrupt.
(Page 390 of pdf)
With that in mind, here’s a selection of conclusions from the report about President Trump’s corrupt intent related to different aspects of the investigation. There are no redactions in the sections I’m quoting:
Firing of James Comey
Substantial evidence indicates that the catalyst for the President’s decision to fire Comey was Comey’s unwillingness to publicly state that the President was not personally under investigation….Some evidence indicates that the President believed that the erroneous perception he was under investigation harmed his ability to manage domestic and foreign affairs….Other evidence, however, indicates that the President wanted to protect himself from an investigation into his campaign….[T]he evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes.
Attempt to fire the Special Counsel
Substantial evidence indicates that the President’s attempts to remove the Special Counsel were linked to the Special Counsel’s oversight of investigations that involved the President’s conduct—and most immediately, to reports that the President was being investigated for potential obstruction of justice.
Attempts to influence Jeff Sessions
Substantial evidence indicates that the President’s effort to have Sessions limit the scope of the Special Counsel’s investigation to future election interference was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct….There is evidence that at least one purpose of the President’s conduct toward Sessions was to have Sessions assume control over the Russia investigation and supervise it in a way that would restrict its scope….A reasonable inference […] is that the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role and could shield the President from the ongoing Russia investigation.
Many more at www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/04/muel
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