Robert Mueller and the collapse of American trust
The reaction to AG William Barr’s Mueller letter reveals a disturbing truth about America.https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/25/18280802/donald-trump-mueller-report-barr-news-trust
Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report has not resolved all of the disputes surrounding Donald Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 election. But the reaction to it has revealed one of the ways in which American politics is deeply and profoundly broken.
Democrats have responded to Barr’s summary by calling the attorney general’s impartiality into question (not entirely without reason). Leading members of Congress have raised the alarm about “very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department” and are pushing for the full release of Mueller’s report and for Barr to testify under oath.
Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, have responded by blasting “the biased media” for spreading “a collective scam and fraud.” The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), even called for investigations into the FBI’s investigation itself, to see if the bureau’s pursuit of Trump and his allies was in any way improper.
A quick gander at social media shows this polarized reaction from partisan politicians is reflected in their parties’ respective media surrogates and rank-and-file voters. There’s not even a pretense of neutrality: Everyone is reading what they want into Barr’s letter, establishing a reality in which their side is right and the other side is making things up.
Barr’s document is particularly vague on some points, an ambiguity heightened by the fact that no one weighing in — from either side — has read the full report. But even the most unequivocal report would be subject to the deeper forces: the death of the neutral arbiter.
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I have not been able to stomach Joe. When he was supporting Trump, but for now he has turned around.
Be sure and check the video of Colbert to the left. He popogizes to Trump.
And the WP just did a day of reckoning. This would be funny if not so serious.
Joe, you know the History of Scarborough.
For your History search of Scarborough. He was in the front of the crowd walking across the street for the House committee to interview Monica Lewinsky, giggling like school boys seeing dirty pictures.
Shortly after the impeachment vote Joe resigned to spend time with his family. He was do
Ivorced a shart time later. A dead girl was found in his office in Florida, hitting her head on a table. Joe was not there so not blaming him. He had a second divorce a couple of years ago. Hidden,but then Trump threatened to expose his affair. He and Mika married.
Not accusing, just laying out facts of Joe and Mika.
Make of it what you will.
