Why Trump is so intent on discrediting the Mueller Report?

[kentuck]

Because the Mueller Report blamed Russia for interfering in our elections.

Sanctions were placed on them.

Travel by some oligarchs was restricted.

For some reason or other, Trump is insistent upon helping Vladimir Putin every chance he gets? What agreement does he have with Putin? Is it about money or something else? Did he borrow money from the Russians?

So, Putin wants to blame Ukraine and some hidden server for the attack on the DNC and the theft of their files. Trump and his lieutenants are attempting to clear Putin of any wrongdoing. Then things can go back to "normal".

It appears that Trump owes Putin a huge "favor"?

[spanone]

1. Seems trump trusts rudy giuliani more than the FBI or any other intel institutions.

[volstork]

4. Good luck with that.

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Fellow grifters

[Wounded Bear]

21. Rudy was his contact to the NY FBI guys who knee capped Hillary for Comey...

[Wounded Bear]

23. I always figured the Pee Pee tapes were a red herring, at best...

The real compromat on Trump has to be in the realm of money/politics.

[Iliyah]

3. Yep. Confirmation that t-rump is illegitimate . . . .

along with Pence and would also prove that the elections across the USA was tampered with also.

Putin wants Ukraine back and it looks like he is going to take it back piece by piece with the help of t-rump and the Republican party.

[Mike 03]

5. Just speculating aloud...

We know one of his Achilles Heels is that he detests that most Americans know he was put into office by Russia's help, so he's highly motivated to discredit the Mueller Report.

But what is less often discussed is the high likelihood that Russian oligarchs laundered billions of dollars through Trump properties (one good source is Craig Unger's book "House of Putin, House of Trump&quot

Beyond that, there are still mysteries like strange bank transactions between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization in the runup to the election, and the NRA/Russia money funnelling. He's exposed on many fronts.

So IMO it's not just that he owes Russia, but he has to please Putin to keep Putin from revealing the money angle you mention in your OP.

[Nictuku]

7. I think it has more to do with what Putin wants

Do you all remember in Helsinki, when he was going against the US Intelligence and siding with Putin's denial, he said that Putin had offered him a wonderful solution, to combine Russian investigators with US investigators to get to the bottom of this? I can't remember if this is before or after the 12 Russians were indicted by Mueller, I think it was after. Putin wants those indictments and the determination that Russia was behind the hacking to go away. (so the sanctions can be lifted) And I think that is now what we are seeing with Barr and Pompeo globe trotting. Putin has been giving directives to Trump to send his people around the world to gin up these false allegations that will lead to the discrediting of the Mueller Report.

Trump is no more than Putin's puppet.

[True Blue American]

13. Russian Oligarchs

Own Trump.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

He will rue the day he ever decided to run for office.

[usaf-vet]

19. "He will rue the day he ever decided to run for office." Boy!, you got that right!

[Texin]

31. Yes. And Putin owns the oligarchs. All of them. They're ALL his bitches.

They all do his bidding - or else.

If tRump is doing anything either at the behest of Putin or is directed by him specifically to do something, he's bound to do it. Why would Putin have bothered to "hope" aloud that tRump wouldn't allow anything the two of them discussed secretly in person or by telephone to be brought out into the open. It was a warning not a suggestion.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Please keep reminding yourself

Mike,

Please also mention in every post, it's not just Trump, it is the entire House and Senate Republicans that also took tons of money from Russia channeled (white washed) thru the NRA. Tens of millions of dollars in so called "PAC" funding of their individual elections.

That is why the congressional republicans are all so beholden to Trump and back him at every turn. If he goes, they go, and the entire corrupt Republican Party with them in one big flush........

Trump would get obliterated in a New York second if it weren't for the Repubs in the House, and especially the Senate.
They can't let him go down without them getting sucked into vortex.........

Thx

[Bleacher Creature]

6. Because it calls into question his "win" in 2016.

As with everything else, it all comes down to his fragile ego and narcissism. Any suggestion that Russia helped him Calle into question his status as a "winner."

[dewsgirl]

8. With Barr galavanting across the globe urgently asking

for help to discredit Mueller, I would say the timing here can't be a coincidence. House calls for impeachment, Putin wants this done ASAP.

[Botany]

9. Because we haven't seen the real report and Trump and company have and its damning ....

... and it will show that the Trump campaign and Russia worked together in order to
steal the 2016 elections. Sooner or later the Mueller report is going to come out and
"they" have to discredit it.

[marieo1]

10. Liar in chief

I've always thought that Putin has something on DJT - it would be interesting to find out what it is. Maybe DJT owes a huge debt with Putin and hasn't the money to pay back or something. I have a feeling we are going to find out. All a bunch of creeps.

[pecosbob]

11. Russia's gas pipeline to southern Europe cannot proceed if sanctions are in place

hence the double down on controlling the pipelines passing through Ukraine. That's what the whole thing was about all along...U.S. oil companies get access to Iranian oil fields and the Russian Arctic, al Saud gets nuclear energy and gets to see the rival Shiaa bombed into nothingness and Putin gets his southern gas pipeline to Europe.

[iluvtennis]

14. Bingo-trump does this for putin and putin gives team trump to do trump moscow properties. My opinion

[hkp11]

15. so true...

as you described, it's all about power and money $$$

[Pepsidog]

17. It's all about Russian sanctions relief. Maddow has done some great reporting on this.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. I see it as burying history to permanently normalize a global power grab

It's about squelching opposition and the truth.

Upheavals happen every 60-70 years or so. The Civil War established laissez-faire capitalism that wasn't tethered until the Trustbusters and wasn't modified until the Election of 1932 and the New Deal. This is international oligarchs establishing a new system and sandbagging the old, where everything is a resource for the wealthy to make money.

[pecosbob]

22. Sykes-Picot

[berni_mccoy]

20. It's for Putin. If Trump can discredit the findings

More sanctions on Russia can be lifted.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. tRump knows what Barr HID by redactions. . . . nt

[Happy Hoosier]

25. My guess is that he promised Putin...

... he would lift sanctions in exchange for election help and keeping kompromat quiet. He can't do that unless the Ukraine invasion is accepted and Mueller discredited.

The nexus for Trump's promises are in Ukraine....

[malaise]

27. My take - everything they redacted is what they have gone overseas to

undermine.

Democrats, media and everyone else need to demand the unredacted Mueller Report

[calimary]

29. Yep. Vlad to his errand boy: "I would like you to do us a favor, though."

[duforsure]

30. It's to lift sanctions for Putin

Did trump promise him he would plus playoffs to Putin to help in the election? Putins losing millions in his pockets is why he wants sanction gone so much.

[Moostache]

32. It is obvious....Trump has ALWAYS been Vladimir's bitch, bought and owned from day one

I bet dollars to donuts that Trump's last call before that ridiculous escalator ride was getting marching orders from Moscow.

He is a traitor and should be hung for treason (because we ARE at war with Russia in the 21st century and not by the 18th century definition of war in a field lining up and taking turns shooting at each other).

Trump is the worst thing to ever happen to America and its not even close for the title....he lapped the field multiple times over by now...

[True Blue American]

33. Putin asked that his transcripts be released.:)

And Rudy liked the former Prosecutor until he didn’t. The Prosecutor told him Biden had done nothing wrong,

[Baked Potato]

34. Discrediting Mueller was probably on Putin's original List of Honey-Do's

Trumps got to knock this one out before impeachment.

[thesquanderer]

35. Another possible reason: The report is full of things he could arguably be indicted for...

...in January of 2021 when he is no longer in a position that is immune from indictment.

[kentuck]

36. Also...

Knowing what we have learned about Trump in the last three years, we know that he like to project his failing onto others.

When he accuses the Bidens of making money in Ukraine, that is likely what he himself is guilty of doing. He blames others for his own crimes.

Also, I think it is significant that both he and Rudy were discussing matters in Ukraine with Paul Manafort. This was reported a day or two ago here on DU. (I don't have the link at this time)

But, Manafort and "others" were making money off the corruption in Ukraine when the Russian puppets were in charge. They were happy with the Russian prosecutor not prosecuting anyone. They seem to have lost their contacts once the previous prosecutor was fired?

In my opinion, there is much more to this story than what has been reported thus far.