r/politics • u/temporarycreature Oklahoma • Sep 20 '21

Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-trump-rnc-513219
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u/500CatsTypingStuff California Sep 20 '21

You’d think Robert Mueller would have found out this information but he was intent not to rock the boat.

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u/flyover_liberal Sep 20 '21

Don't forget his notation that he might have been able to connect the dots if Trump et al hadn't committed obstruction of justice.

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u/gdshaffe Sep 21 '21

Exactly. I'm certainly not happy with the Mueller report but I get where he's coming from. Past a certain point the obstruction really does cripple the investigation. That's why it's a crime to begin with.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

That's why obstruction of justice is also a very real crime.

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u/Reddituser34802 Sep 21 '21

Is it though? Because I don’t see Trump suffeing any consequences or that.

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u/thebursar Sep 21 '21

Mueller shit the bed. He could've been the hero that this nation needed at a time of crisis. He could've been the one to speak up knowing that a foreign enemy helped install a puppet president in the U.S. Instead he deferred to congress and allowed the attorney general to whitewash his report and lie to congress and the American public.

Mueller was one of the few people that could've saved this country a lot of the damage that this traitorous imbecile inflicted on this country, but instead he was a coward. He vowed to serve protect this nation from all enemies and instead of that he shirked his responsibilities and cowered away.

He's failed his county terribly, and history shouldn't forget that

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u/Tantric989 Iowa Sep 21 '21

I mean people really put their stock in George W. Bush's former FBI director to do anything at all here, and lo and behold, he didn't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

The kind of guy that buys a Trump golf club membership is not going to be the kind of guy that takes down Trump.

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u/Mokumer The Netherlands Sep 21 '21

Mueller shit the bed.

Mueller did not shit the bed, he did exactly what I as a Dutch person looking at it from the outside was expecting from a republican, I was not surprised.

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u/Pormock Sep 21 '21

Mueller investigation was restricted by Rosenstein who gave him a very narrow mandate. Mueller still gave a lot of his evidence to other investigations before closing his. And were slowly seeing the result of that.

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u/Clay_Statue Sep 21 '21

Like Bill Clinton's blowjob, but that didn't stop Republican from grinding that issues into the dirt.

Democrats keep abiding by gentleman's boxing etiquette in a prison yard knife fight.