Seth Abramson wonders why Mueller closed up shop just before the Assange arrest.

[triron]

Link to tweet

[Grasswire2]

1. looking more and more like Barr closed the shop. nt

[NewJeffCT]

5. Yep

I'm thinking he told Mueller that he needed to finish up and get the report onto his desk within 30 days or something like that.

[bluestarone]

2. Very interesting question here!

KICK!

[True Blue American]

3. Barr shut him down

But Mueller was smart enough to pass many cases where Trump and Barr can not touch them.

Barr is above his pay grade it seems. Covering up today is not as easy as it was in the 1980’s.

[triron]

6. Did Mueller pass off the pre-election conspiracy of Trump-Russia?

[kimbutgar]

12. I agree between cable news, the internet and citizen journalists there is a 24/7 news

In the 80’w all you had were the newspaper, TV news, magazines. It was easier to hide things then. Now Barr can’t completely coverup and hide thing because there are a lot of people trying to push open the door.

I imagine a political cartoon showing all these factors pushing open a door with Barr trying to keep it shut. He can try to conceal but we won’t let him!

[Arazi]

4. Better question: who delayed Assange's arrest until Mueller had closed up shop

[triron]

7. Hmm. Yes maybe that's it.

[FakeNoose]

8. Assange overstayed his welcome at the Ecuadoran embassy

I just read a news story that Assange hacked the president of Ecuador's emails and published some private info and email addresses. Not cool, when you're depending on the good graces of the ambassador and the president of Ecuador!

It seems the Barr/Mueller report is unrelated to the expulsion of Assange though. Hopefully the London police will get a chance to examine Assange's computers, and maybe share the contents with us.



Edited to add: Here's the entire thread from Seth Abramson from Threadreader app:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1116335760976822272.html

(It's a total of 30 tweets rolled into one.)

[triron]

10. Thanks.

[jalan48]

9. And without a peep from straight shooter Mueller.

[brush]

11. IMO Barr was put in place to halt the continuance of the report.

A month after he was confirmed the report was allegedly finished. I don't buy that for a minute.

What I also don't buy is that trump is the one orchestrating Barr's cover-up and burial of the report. It's either the repug party apparatus, the repug apparatus in conjunction with Putin, or maybe the American oligarchs like the Kochs, the Mercers, etc.