I wouldn't really call Trump a fascist. The only thing he believes in or cares about or has any loyalty to is himself. So I don't think you can really apply any ideological labels to him at all.





No, Trump has not been cleared of all charges. In any way, shape or form. Mueller in his own words:



It is quite clear that Trump committed obstruction of justice and the only reason he has not been indicted is because of the DOJ policy against indicting a sitting President.





Also, being cleared of charges says nothing about the question of collusion, since collusion isn't a crime. To quote from the Mueller Report:





"In evaluating whether evidence about collective action of multiple individuals constituted a crime, we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of “collusion.” In so doing, the Office recognized that the word “collud[e]” was used in communications with the Acting Attorney General confirming certain aspects of the investigation’s scope and that the term has frequently been invoked in public reporting about the investigation. But collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law. For those reasons, the Office’s focus in analyzing questions of joint criminal liability was on conspiracy as defined in federal law. In connection with that analysis, we addressed the factual question whether members of the Trump Campaign “coordinat[ed]” — a term that appears in the appointment order — with Russian election interference activities. Like collusion, “coordination” does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement — tacit or express — between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other’s actions or interests. We applied the term coordination in that sense when stating in the report that the investigation did not establish that the Trump Campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities...





The social media campaign and the GRU hacking operations coincided with a series of contacts between Trump Campaign officials and individuals with ties to the Russian government. The Office investigated whether those contacts reflected or resulted in the Campaign conspiring or coordinating with Russia in its election-interference activities. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."





No, there is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed a crime in his dealings with the Russians. Being disloyal to the United States is not a crime. I defy you to argue that it's not a compelling reason to remove an individual from the office of the Presidency.





Yes, the Uranium One deal happened. And no uranium whatsoever went to Russia. Also, Clinton was only one of many cabinet officials who were involved in approving the deal. While there are legitimate questions about the wisdom of allowing the deal to go forward, the hysterics coming out of the right wing media about it are complete nonsense. What actually happened: www.factcheck.org/2017/10/fact…





(sigh) I am getting so tired of the right's sudden obsession with the word "socialism." The United states has had socialism since the 1930's. It's right there in the name of the program: Social Security. The entire discussion of capitalism vs socialism is frankly silly. These labels are leftovers from a nineteenth century political pissing match and have no real relevance to today's world. It should have been obvious to one and all for a century that trying to run an economy according to ideological notions of how the universe ought to be is a fool's errand. Command economies don't work. Neither do economies left completely to unrestrained market forces and the law of the jungle. Managing an economy in the real world requires both the harnessing of the market and smart, reasonable regulation.





Regardless, are you seriously going to compare someone subscribing to economic ideas you don't like to a Presidential candidate getting up on national TV and explicitly asking a hostile foreign power to conduct a cyber attack against the United States to benefit his campaign? Do you really honestly see those two things as being at all comparable?

