Since you name-dropped that fascist, bigoted old f***wit, I'll also throw in that even outside his federal contempt charge for racist practices goes.... Joe Arpaio was sued multiple times for inmates dying in his correction facilities, and he also lost Arizona's prison systems their federal accrediation for inhuman treatment of inmates.
He also was advising the Trump campaign on immigration, and has been a frequent guest at Trump's rallies, inside and outside of Arizona.
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The talking point with GOP mouthpieces over the last few days has been "Why are we having these hearings? Mueller already said all he's needed to say in the report!"
The fact that Mueller is revealing some of the redacted information during questioning is all the reason needed.
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He also blew up Nunes by saying his outlying of events with Pappado was incorrect.
Himes is getting all of the Mueller investigation ties between Russian and Trump on record.
Mueller is also correcting Himes about intent ... which hurts the impeachment case.
Mueller also set the record on that nobody asked him to exclude items from the report.
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Ratcliffe wants the record cleared.
Mueller corrected Ratcliffe's conspiracy charges.
Mueller referred Ratcliffe to the facts of Steele, Page, and others are under a separate investigation, ongoing currently.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Sewell is pushing on the Junior/Manafort thread.
Mueller said (which we already knew from his report):
- the Trump campaign did not contact the FBI when Russia contacted them with aid, which is a crime
- Trump campaign covered up their electronic and in-person meetings with Russian spies
- characterizing that Trump could be immune as POTUS is correct
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Assuming she's "going by the book" it was important to get Mueller to state these things for the public record before moving forward, especially after Trump was able to get Barr to run interference from the Justice Department.
The jury is still out on whether playing the long game is the smart move in this situation given Trump's unpredictability, but it makes sense to build a solid case before officially initiating the process of impeachment, especially considering that other elements are being played out in court as we speak.
Equally importantly, I like that Mueller is focused on reminding the public to focus on protecting our elections against outside interference -- it's also a reminder that Trump is only the symptom of a much larger problem with regards to Republicans repeatedly subverting our democracy to their own benefit.
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Turner wants to establish that AG or Mueller or anybody can't exonerate anybody.
Mueller said he put that in because the current AG Barr does not know that.
Turner disagreed.
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Carson is focused on establishing that GRU and other Russian intelligence targeted 4 specific states, the 4 that gave Trump the electoral win.
Mueller agreed.
Oligarchs are brought up, Mueller attests, as in the report, that Trump does owe large sums of money to known Russian oligarchs.
Mueller generally agrees that Trump is compromised enough to be subject to blackmail.
Mueller does not agree Trump did this to harm the US, but that doesn't mean he didn't.
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Wenstrup wants to establish that Trump is not a Russian agent.
Mueller agreed.
Wenstrup wants to establish that Trump is not part of a network of Kompromat.
Mueller agreed that they did not determine that in their investigation but had evidence.
Wenstrup wants on the record that Rod or Mueller pushed to expand the scope of his investigation.
Mueller said that's internal and could not be discussed.
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Mueller established the intent of the report was to warn the public about Russia's ongoing involvement in attacking the US.
Mueller established the report was intended to galvanize the people that could do something about this, since it has been going on for years, to prevent this from ever happening again.
The integrity of the report is key.
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Just so you know, no impeachment is happening, stop getting your hopes up over every little thing