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Blowin' in the NPR Wind. Over at Democrat State Radio the shock of the Mueller investigation wrap-up has set in. All Things Considered took a quick look at the Republican perspective with Harmeet Dhillon for all of three minutes last night. NPR has posted the transcript [elsew]here. The NPR baloney meets the grinder of a most capable advocate in this all too brief interview. [Audio clip]

A new special counsel should be appointed. The interference began as an attempt first to "stop Trump" from getting elected, as former FBI agent Peter Strzok said in a text message, since uncovered, to his lover during the 2016 election. When that failed, Trump's enemies attempted to delegitimize and ultimately remove a duly-elected president. Now we learn that after an exhaustive 22-month special counsel probe, there was no collusion between Donald Trump or his campaign with Russia. You can bet if there was any criminal wrong-doing, Mueller and his henchmen would've found it and brought indictments. The question now becomes, when is House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff's raid coming? How about predawn arrests for former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former CIA spook John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other Obama administration deep state officials who partook in the conspiracy to nullify a U.S. presidential election?

Here's Why I Didn't Fall For The Russia-Trump Conspiracy. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced in late March that his sprawling Russia probe had ended with not a single indictment related to criminal collusion, it was a devastating blow to the media's already damaged credibility. "The Mueller Report is an unmitigated disaster for the American press and the 'expert' class that it promotes," wrote Lee Smith in an overview at The Tablet. Smith was one of the exceedingly small handful of journalists who didn't fall for the Russia conspiracy.

Democrats Plan Wednesday Vote to Subpoena Mueller Report. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) announced the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Wednesday vote to subpoena the Mueller report from Attorney General Bill Barr. Although Barr has indicated he intends to provide a redacted report sometime in the next two weeks, Democrats set this Tuesday as the deadline to receive "the full and complete Special Counsel report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence." Nadler chairs the Judiciary Committee, and is joined by five other committee chairs in making the demands for the documents.

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It's like acquiring a subpoena for tomorrow's mail. The mail is coming sooner or later anyway, so what's the point? Grandstanding. The purpose of this move is to huff and puff for the benefit of the "news" media, and make it appear (if only for a few days) that there's some kind of sinister cover-up.

Schiff Blasts 'Unpatriotic' Actions of Trump Campaign, Insists 'Collusion' With Russia Occurred. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff ripped Republican committee members for demanding his resignation, and blasted Donald Trump Jr. for actions he claimed showed direct evidence of Russian collusion. After Committee Member Mike Conaway (R-Texas) called for Schiff (D-Calif.) to resign from the leadership post, the Burbank Democrat returned fire.

Trey Gowdy: CIA May Stop Giving Adam Schiff Information Because He Leaks 'Like A Screen Door On A Submarine'. Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy predicted Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community might stop providing information to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff because he leaks "like a screen door on a submarine." Gowdy was asked to weigh in on Republicans' decision Thursday [3/28/2019] to call on Schiff to step down as chairman of the House panel.

Tom Cotton Lays the Blame for the Collusion Hoax at the Door of One Man. We know that the dossier used to kickstart the investigation of the Trump campaign was false in all but some very general points. We know that the FBI used this dossier for at least three FISA warrants. We know that there are idiots out there who still believe the George Papadopoulos-Andrew Downer story (looking at you, Chris Wallace). We know that this dossier was introduced into the media and into the highest levels of government by trusted intermediaries. We know that the people pushing the story had a personal animus towards Trump and a lot of people who worked for him. What we don't know on that side of the equation is why? Did they do it, anticipating a Clinton win, so they could discredit the GOP? [...] This kind of activity — launching a counterintelligence probe of a presidential campaign and never briefing the candidate on any concerns the FBI had about his staff — is not only unprecedented, but it could not have taken place unless it was cleared by the White House.

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"Cleared by the White House" means, cleared by Valerie Jarrett, because she was apparently making the decisions attributed to Barack H. Obama.

The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt. The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes. Now that Robert Mueller's 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the original goal of its mandate — evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government to sway the 2016 election — and now that thousands of once-sealed government documents will likely be released in unredacted form, those who eagerly assumed the role of the hunters may become the hunted, due to their own zealous violation of the nation's trust and its laws.

George Papadopoulos Slams Adam Schiff for Putting 'Personal Interests Ahead of the Country'. Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News slammed Democrat lawmakers Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and others who accused him and other Trump campaign members of colluding with Russia, calling the promotion of the collusion narrative a "power grab." "I think they're putting their own personal interests ahead of the country," he said during a 30-minute long interview on Thursday [3/28/2019].

Jason Chaffetz Says Republicans Should Target Adam Schiff's Security Clearance. Former GOP Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Republicans should target Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff's security clearance, following the release of the Mueller report. "I think the one that has been the most discredited through this entire process is Adam Schiff," Chaffetz said Thursday [3/28/2019] on "Varney & Company."

Hands Up, Don't Collude. If there had been any question as to the corruption of the mainstream media, their response in the aftermath of the Mueller report release should dispel any remaining doubt. After endlessly pushing the narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to fraudulently win the 2016 presidential election, then obstructed justice in a grand conspiracy to cover it all up, they are left with nothing. Anyone with a healthy sense of shame would acknowledge at the least that they were wrong, and at best that they participated in a hyper-partisan effort to overturn the results of an election where they did not get the result they wanted. And apologize, humbly, in order to salvage their marginal reputations. They are doing anything but.

Hold Hillary Accountable For The Russia Hoax. Oddly, no one is blaming the political arsonist who started the dumpster fire that is Russiagate. The Russian conspiracy theory was invented by the Clinton campaign. It was used as a pretext for spying on Trump associates. And then became an argument for invalidating the results of the 2016 election. And while the Republicans and Democrats tore each other apart over Russiagate, Hillary Clinton sipped her chardonnays and spent the evenings cackling madly at the TV while watching Washington D.C. burn. The Russiagate conspiracy theory had multiple purposes. The most cynical one was exempting Hillary and her Clintonworlders from any of the blame for the election defeat. Invoking Russia was also an effort to create an election issue that Clinton, a former Secretary of State, could claim expertise on. It would also neatly counter Trump's focus on Islamic terrorists and on China with a Cold War boogeyman.

Dems, Media Prepare Conspiracy Theories To Discredit Mueller Report. Democrats and the establishment media are floating conspiracy theories about special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation in order to discredit his finding of no collusion. Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General Bill Barr last weekend, and Barr sent a letter to Congress summarizing the report's principal findings: no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and no conclusion on obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.

Mueller report findings upend partisan views of probe, poll finds. Americans are split over whether House Democrats should continue to investigate President Trump after special counsel Robert S. Mueller III made no determination about whether he attempted to obstruct justice during the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds. The division marks a clear break from public support for Russia-related investigations at the start of the year, when an overall majority supported House Democrats' efforts to examine whether Trump's subordinates conspired with Russia as well as Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Bias alert: Americans have been "split" by the Mueller investigation for two years. This is not a recent development.

Voters Agree With Trump on Russia Probe. Congressional Democrats are committing a grave political blunder by continuing to push Russia conspiracy theories and insinuating that Attorney General William Barr is perpetrating a cover-up by complying with the law in his handling of the Mueller report. In addition to the special counsel probe, which produced no evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice by the Trump campaign, there have been two congressional inquiries that also failed to find proof of malfeasance. Several polls conducted since the Mueller probe ended suggest that most Americans believe the President is innocent of wrongdoing and that the Democrats are merely playing politics.

Rachel Maddow sheds tears, viewers. According to the Daily Caller, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow lost half-a-million viewers in just one week after it became clear that Robert Mueller did not find enough evidence to support a claim of "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia. The phony Russia collusion story had been good to Maddow. It helped drive her show consistently to first or second place in overall cable news ratings during the past year. Sometimes, she garnered more than three million viewers, again according to the Daily Caller. But her show reportedly dropped 500,000 viewers after word of Mueller's findings became public.

Limbaugh Calls for Trump to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Collusion Hoax. Thursday [3/28/2019] on Fox News Channel's "Special Report," conservative talker Rush Limbaugh called on President Donald Trump to appoint a special counsel to investigate the origins of the Mueller probe. Limbaugh said, "There is no evidence of collusion! The man is lying through his teeth and this is what I mean that they are trying to keep this alive. I heard today in The New York Times, guess what it is actually 300 pages and Bill Barr summarized it in four? Are they serious? They really — Pelosi wants us to believe that Barr is lying about what is in this report and that there is evidence in this report! If that is true then what must they think of Barr? And where is Mueller saying Barr is lying about this and I found collusion! I found obstruction! It is in my report. Mueller isn't staying that. Neither are the 19 pro-Hillary investigators on the staff saying that."

Robert Mueller used triangulation to promote and protect the Deep State. As special counsel, Robert Mueller became an integral part of the ongoing Deep-State insurance policy to destroy and eventually impeach and unseat President Trump and provide cover for Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, and Deep-State operatives in the FBI and DOJ. What's shocking is that Mueller operated under a cloak of secrecy and protection provided by our own government. A major part of Mueller's objective appears to have been dragging out the Russia collusion investigation long enough to affect the 2018 elections in hopes of helping Democrats take control of either the House or the Senate or both. Mission accomplished.

Collusion Clingers and Their Flat-Earth Forebears. No matter what, many insist that Donald Trump and Russia colluded to win the White House. Even after special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation finally repudiated their destructive myth, they still scream: "Collusion!" House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) is the spiritual leader of the Congressional Collusion Caucus. He told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday [3/31/2019]: "I did say that there is ample evidence, and indeed there is, of collusion of people in the Trump campaign with the Russians." Schiff told the Washington Post, "Undoubtedly there is collusion." He added: "We will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues. That is, is the president, or people around him, compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power?"

Rand Paul blocks resolution for release of Mueller Report unless it includes communications of Obama officials. Time to venture boldly through the looking-glass... Sen. Rand Paul is among the millions who think so. The Republican senator from Kentucky effectively blocked a resolution Thursday that called for the public release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. Objecting to the resolution, he argued that the communications of officials in the Obama administration be released first, to include those of former CIA Director John Brennan and Former FBI Director James Comey, as relating to the beginning of the Russia probe. Others no doubt among that vile cartel would be Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and Loretta Lynch.

Democrats, the Media, and the Big Lie. For the past two and a half years this nation has been roiled by the incessant drumbeat of accusations that its newly elected President, Donald Trump, was a clandestine agent of Russia and colluded with them to alter the outcome of the 2016 election. On their face, these accusations were so preposterous that anyone with a modicum of common sense would have thought them totally unbelievable. [...] In what was a staged and unnecessary inquiry, and despite turning over every marginally relevant leaf and conducting a dogged 22-month investigation using partisan prosecutors, Robert Mueller was unable to link Donald Trump or his campaign to even the minutest degree of collusion with the Russian Government. Nonetheless the drumbeat of lies and insinuations was a major factor in the Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in 2018.

Amid Calls for New Special Counsel, Silence on Internal Probe of FBI, DOJ Abuses. After nearly two years, special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report is finished. But one year after his assignment to probe possible related misdeeds by FBI and Justice Department officials, U.S. Attorney John Huber's work remains a mystery. Huber, who oversees federal prosecutions in the District of Utah, is working collaboratively in the internal investigation with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. "There is no evidence a real investigation is taking place," the head of one legal watchdog group told The Daily Signal.

Robert Mueller's investigation was always political; don't blame Trump for keeping it that way. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find the evidence necessary to support theories of collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice and so it's a riot to watch President Trump's critics now accuse him of politicizing the affair. What was this investigation, if not a political exercise? Contrary to the solemn act put on by Democrats and cable news pundits, the special counsel investigation was always a political pursuit meant to drag down Trump's presidency for as long as humanly possible. Consider that not a single indictment had anything to do with Trump's supposed collusion or obstruction of justice.

The Only 2016 Campaign That Deliberately Colluded With Russians Was Hillary Clinton's. For more than two years, the campaign, presidential transition, and official government administration of Donald Trump operated under a cloud of suspicion that they had engaged in a treasonous conspiracy to steal the 2016 election from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Trump and his top associates were accused of collusion and of conspiring with the Russians to subvert American democracy. The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency publicly declared Trump to be guilty of treason, an offense punishable by death. The former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the country's premier law enforcement agency, intimated that the president had illegally obstructed justice. In the end, none of it was true.

Naming And Shaming : The Absolutely Worst Reporters on The Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory. Attorney General Bill Barr revealed this weekend that special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, dealing a hefty blow to a large swath of the media. Perhaps most damaged were the individual anchors and reporters who bet their careers on proving that President Donald Trump conspired with a foreign power to steal an election. These journalists authored fake stories, gave breathless coverage to the alleged scandal and ultimately misled the public.

Has the Trump 2020 Collusion Investigation Started Yet? The two-year-in-the-making Mueller report has finally concluded. The main takeaways: no further indictments, no allegations of interference with the investigation and no finding of collusion with Russia. [...] In sum, for anti-Trumpers, hope appears to have run out on the Mueller team, which, at one time, was perhaps the only mostly all-white, mostly all-male group that today's Democrats could love and embrace.

Continued High Stakes. Two years ago I predicted the attempt to nullify the 2016 election with the Russian collusion investigation would threaten both Trump and Obama: [...] Unfortunately, the prediction has now come true. "Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday that President Donald Trump told senators at the weekly GOP luncheon that he backs his call for an investigation into the origins of the Russia scandal "hoax" that Trump has now been cleared of by Special Counsel Robert Mueller." In this scenario, the conspiracy was a plot to frame Trump and having failed, the next act is to hunt the conspirators.

Jessica Tarlov: Schiff, Swalwell, should present the collusion evidence they said they had against Trump. Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov called on House Democrats to release their findings from their ongoing Russia probes that allegedly incriminate President Donald Trump. Long before Special Counsel Robert Mueller determined that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 election, several Democratic lawmakers including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif told numerous media outlets that they had seen "plenty of evidence" that proved collusion existed.

Rudy Giuliani Drops a Bomb: FISA Warrants Investigation Will Lead to Perjury Prosecutions. Guaranteed! Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity on Friday night [3/29/2019] to discuss the aftermath of the Mueller Report. Rudy warned the Mueller mob that if their report is released he will drop an 87 page report on the corrupt and criminal tactics of the Special Counsel. Rudy is no wilting flower.

What's In The Full Mueller Report? First things first. We cannot approach the analysis of Robert Mueller or any of the officials within the closed-circle of the DC fiefdom from a reference drawn from our own personal experiences. The people we are discussing are not connected to a frame of reference carried by 99% of the American population. The DC elites are people born to live in a hierarchy of power and position disconnected from any external tribe. Their sense of self-importance is affirmed by perceived status and expressed through their daily conduct. A world of think-tanks, superiority training, traditions and policy-making enhances their sanctimonious self-importance at a pathological level.

Spygate: The Inside Story Behind the Alleged Plot to Take Down Trump. Efforts by high-ranking officials in the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), and State Department to portray President Donald Trump as having colluded with Russia were the culmination of years of bias and politicization under the Obama administration. The weaponization of the intelligence community and other government agencies created an environment that allowed for obstruction in the investigation into Hillary Clinton and the relentless pursuit of a manufactured collusion narrative against Trump. A willing and complicit media spread unsubstantiated leaks as facts in an effort to promote the Russia-collusion narrative.

Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon But Entrapped. It's bad enough, as has been evident for some time, that Donald Trump and his campaign were being spied upon by our own government, but it's highly likely they were also subject to literal entrapment — at least a serious attempt was made. I don't mean the entrapment of promulgating the salacious Steele dossier both to the public and the FISA court as if it were the truth. That was more of a smear to justify a phony investigation. I mean something more subtle and LeCarré-like coming from the depths of our intelligence communities. It raises once more the question of the power of such agencies in a free society, a conundrum with no easy answers but of great significance to our lives.

The Media Must Face Consequences for the Russia Hoax. So, the Mueller report finally dropped and lo-and-behold, the most obvious hoax in recent history turned out to be a hoax. For all of Trump's faults, collusion and obstruction aren't among them. The various excuses by those who perpetuated this fraud have been fascinating to behold. [...] Never again can we take their word for what is "fake news" and what is not. Never again can we allow them to dictate who should be on social media and should not be. The mainstream liberal press has betrayed the trust of the American people in a cynical ploy to try to remove a President they openly hate while lining their own pockets. Don't allow them to move on to the next topic as if nothing happened. Their credibility is gone. Don't let them forget it.

How long has Mueller known there was no Trump-Russia collusion? Almost from the start, Democrats and their media echo chamber have moved the goal posts on collusion. The original allegation — the political narrative that the Clinton campaign, through Obama administration alchemy, honed into a counterintelligence investigation — was that that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russia's "cyberespionage" attacks on the 2016 election. But there was no evidence that candidate Trump and his surrogates had anything to do with the Kremlin's hacking and propaganda schemes. And no supporting logic. The Russians are very good at espionage. They neither needed nor wanted American help, their operations predated Trump's entry into the campaign, and some of those operations were anti-Trump. Nevertheless, in short order, that endlessly elastic word, collusion, was being stretched to the breaking point — covering every conceivable type of association between Trump associates and Russia.

How Could The Intelligence Community Fail So Badly? Far more than a failure of journalism, the Russia collusion narrative was, at its core, a monstrous failure of U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence. All criticism of the news media aside for the moment, the bottom line is that professional journalists received fake intelligence information from U.S. government leakers whom they trusted. The entire Russian collusion debacle shows that the American intelligence and counterintelligence processes have broken down.

Devin Nunes: Submitting criminal referral against FBI, DOJ over Russia probe. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Thursday that he's ready to submit criminal referrals to the Justice Department, and accused the FBI and DOJ of making false claims while investigating alleged Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 election. "The FBI and DOJ falsely claimed that this investigation didn't begin until late July," he told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo. "We now know for certain that that's not true. We are still trying to get to the bottom of that. Of course there's still documents that need to come out."

Was Mueller's Investigation a Cover Up? Certainly, it comes as a relief that [Special Counsel Robert Mueller] correctly found no evidence of collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump's presidential campaign and quite properly did not charge the president for obstruction of justice. But just because Mueller and his team of Hillary Clinton sycophants reached the right conclusions does not mean that they conducted a righteous investigation. In that regard, given that the Special Counsel's Office did not charge the persons who fabricated and used the Russia collusion fable to undermine Trump's campaign and presidency, it would appear that, far from being impartial seekers of truth following the trail of evidence regardless of the political consequences, they were a getTrump lynch party that simply ran out of rope.

Grand jury impaneled by Mueller still involved in 'robust ongoing grand jury investigation'. A federal grand jury impaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller is still conducting a "robust ongoing" investigation — even after his team has concluded its work and disbanded — a federal prosecutor testified Wednesday during a court hearing about a subpoena dispute with an unnamed, foreign-owned company. The disclosure was made during an effort by media organizations to persuade the court to identify the foreign firm that has, thus far, refused to honor the subpoena issued by the Mueller team. And it has added a new mystery to the already confounding dispute — why would the grand jury handling the Mueller case still be in the throes of a "robust" investigation if the special counsel's work has concluded?

Hold the Pulitzers. The only people surprised that the special counsel's investigation of Russian collusion did not confirm a lunatic conspiracy theory are consumers of the modern American media. For two years, our constitutionally protected guardians of the truth put out a stream of misinformation, promising viewers that Robert Mueller was going to reverse the outcome of the 2016 election. Everyone at fake news MSNBC, marginally less fake news NBC, and totally fake news CNN — hosts, guests, legal experts and national security analysts — should be told, Clean out your lockers. Put all your things in cardboard cartons. If you need to go back, you will be escorted by security. Instead, they are adamantly refusing to take back their years of lies about Trump and Russian collusion. This is not a time to let bygones by bygones.

NY Times: Full Mueller Report is in Excess of 300 Pages. While Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary on Sunday, Robert Mueller's full report on Russian election tampering exceeds 300 pages in length, according to the New York Times. The Times, which cited the Justice Department for the information, noted the hundreds of pages show Mueller wrote about the investigation in much more depth than what is required. In Barr's relatively summary of the 22-month investigation, he highlighted the fact that Mueller did not find Trump worked with the Russians to have an advantage in the 2016 election.

The Mueller bitter enders. Realists understand the risks of continuing to dwell on collusion and obstruction of justice. Americans are weary of Mueller headlines. In a CNN poll this month, respondents listed the economy, immigration and health care as their most important issues for 2020. No one listed the special-counsel probe. The Democrats who are actually charged with electing more Democrats understand this. In a leadership meeting Monday night, Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, laid out the alarming reality: Voters have little idea what the Democratic policy agenda is; the party urgently needs to move beyond 2016. The realists also understand the Mueller probe has gained the party little up to now, beyond gratifying its base.

On Trump-Russia Collusion — Let's investigate why we've been lied to for two years. Mueller's report should spur a series of parallel investigations. First, Congress should find out how claims this bogus were able to consume and perpetuate through the Justice Department, FBI and our intelligence agencies. The Obama administration reportedly knew that Russians were trying to influence the election. Why did officials decide to spend energy pursuing a false narrative rather than aggressively combatting Russian hacking efforts during a presidential election cycle? It certainly appears now they were simply trying to hurt the Trump campaign. How involved was President Obama himself — or Vice President Joe Biden? Why has former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper been so convinced that the collusion story was real? For that matter, why did FBI Director James Comey break FBI protocols and seek to spread the collusion lie? Congress should call these people in and ask them under oath.

NBC News' Lester Holt 'went easy' on James Comey during interview on Mueller report, critic says. NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt "went easy" on former FBI Director James Comey during their Wednesday interview about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report about Russian meddling, according to a media critic. [...] The interview that aired did not include any questions from Holt on the controversial anti-Trump dossier that helped spark the entire Russia investigation as well as the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that allowed the surveillance of Trump campaign official Carter Page. Holt also seemingly avoided Comey's admitted orchestrated leaking of memos of his conversations with President Trump to the media.

Collusiongate, RIP. The announcement late Friday afternoon that special counsel Robert Mueller had completed his investigation and Attorney General William Barr's four-page letter released Sunday made it clear: "The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." This is not what you expected if you've been watching CNN or MSNBC or reading the New York Times or the Washington Post these past two years.

Prominent Democratic lawyer Greg Craig close to being charged in case stemming from Mueller probe. Federal prosecutors are close to bringing charges against Greg Craig, a prominent Democratic lawyer and former White House counsel in the Obama administration, in a case that originated with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to people familiar with the matter. The possible charges are connected to false statements Craig allegedly gave to investigators who were looking at the work he performed for Ukraine.

Pelosi: AG Barr 'Arrogant' to Think We Would Accept His 'Interpretation' of Mueller Report. In an interview with SiriusXM Progress channel's "Make It Plain," House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said it was "a little bit arrogant" of Attorney General William Barr to think Democrats would accept only seeing his four-page letter on Robert Mueller's report. Pelosi said, "We just haven't even seen the Mueller report, and we don't expect to accept just the attorney general's interpretation of it. A little bit arrogant of him to think that that would be the case."

Fox News Blows CNN, MSNBC Out of the Water in Aftermath of Mueller Report. Fox News has continued to dominate cable news ratings in the aftermath of the Mueller investigation's conclusion. Special Report with Bret Baier averaged 2.3 million viewers in total with 364,000 in the key age demographic of 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Group. MSNBC's breaking coverage of the end of the Mueller probe garnered 1.7 million viewers and nearly a quarter-of-a-million in the key demo, whereas CNN only managed to attract 1 million viewers, but did have 291,000 in the age bracket. Each network altered their coverage for the release of the report.

How Mueller's report cleared Trump, and exposed the deep state. To paraphrase the French poet Charles Baudelaire, the greatest trick the deep state ever pulled off was convincing Americans that it didn't exist. While Baudelaire was, of course, speaking of the devil, it seems an appropriate phrase. It expresses perhaps the most significant aspect of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. There is a deep state, and it just got caught using a lie to try to reverse a presidential election. In this respect, Mueller's report did more than simply exonerate President Trump and his campaign from patently fake claims of Russian collusion. It did more than validate his election victory. It proved beyond any doubt, for anyone from either side of the aisle willing to listen, that the deep state exists, respects no bounds on its power, has no allegiance to the truth, and, left unchecked, threatens the very foundations of our constitutional democracy.

On Exoneration, Prosecutors, and Innocence — Trump Vindicated. [Scroll down] Above all, prosecutors are tasked not with convicting defendants, but with doing justice to them: if evidence shows a defendant not guilty, they must disclose this to the court and let the defendant go free. Evidence in a particular case may indeed establish innocence in fact. If defendant can prove presence elsewhere at the time of the crime, actual innocence in fact is established. But many cases are not location-specific. No president can reasonably expect to prove innocence in fact, given countless location-independent, multi-layered events that are spread over one — let alone, two — presidential terms.

The Reckoning Finally Arrives for the Trump Resistance. "The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." That single sentence, taken from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, calls for a reckoning. It's a reckoning for Democrats who saw almost every development in this almost-two-year investigation as another dot connecting a conspiracy Mueller has not found. It's a reckoning for many in the media that dutifully passed along this theory without scrutiny or context. And it's a reckoning for many national security officials who abandoned their traditional nonpartisan role as custodians of state secrets to engage in a campaign against a president they loathed.

Mark Levin calls Mueller a 'coward'. [Scroll down] Levin also criticized Mueller for not subpoenaing Trump or taking him to federal court to solve the issue of obstruction. "He didn't pull the trigger on this ... because he didn't have probable cause," Levin said. "I do not respect this prosecutor at all. ... It took him two years to tell us there was no collusion? Two years?" Levin added that Mueller should have announced the conclusions of his investigation "months ago."

The Mueller Messiah That Failed His Lefty Fans. Votive candles of Robert Mueller III will set you back between 10 and 22 bucks. These candles feature everything from the standard black-suited G-man picture to one of a droopy Mueller in saintly robes pointing at his own glowing heart. By tomorrow or next week at the latest, you will be able to snag what Portland Monthly dubbed last year, the "hottest gift" of the holiday season in the bin at the Dollar store. The candles, the buttons, the t-shirts, the mugs and the other Mueller tchotchkes which briefly made their peddlers wealthy, are all headed for that bin after he broke the hearts of his biggest fans.

McConnell: Mueller Report Summary "Conclusively" Exonerates Trump On Russia, But Not Obama. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding yesterday's letter from Attorney General Barr to Congress on Special Counsel Mueller's report. "So, two years, thousands of subpoenas, hundreds of search warrants, hundreds of witnesses, millions of taxpayer dollars, and these are the findings: No collusion. No conspiracy. No obstruction. What the investigation did produce, it seems, is a deep examination of Russia's efforts to interfere in our 2016 election," McConnell said.

Release the Mueller report now. The Mueller report should have been prepared from the very beginning with public release in mind, and then made public the moment its completion was announced. Without the report, it is impossible for anyone to make an informed argument about anything. Yes, Barr quoted two brief bits from the Mueller report that "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities" and "the evidence does not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference." Those are clear statements that Mueller does not allege that President Trump or his circle conspired or coordinated with Russia or that conspiracy or coordination took place at all. That alone should be enough to put an end to two years of ugly and unfounded accusations directed at the president.

Schiff faces mounting GOP calls for resignation over collusion claims. Republicans are stepping up calls for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to resign or give up his committee post for repeatedly pushing claims of collusion between President Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian operatives. Now that Robert Mueller's probe has shown no evidence of collusion, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has been the most vocal in calling for Schiff's resignation — telling "Fox & Friends" on Monday that the California Democrat "ought to resign today."

Jeff Zucker: No Regrets on CNN's Russia Hoax Coverage, 'We Are Not Investigators'. CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is pushing back against critics accusing the news network of being one of the chief propagators of a debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theory after special counsel Robert Mueller cleared the president's 2016 campaign of alleged collusion with the Kremlin. In an interview with the New York Times, Zucker said he was "entirely comfortable" with CNN's Trump-Russia coverage and suggested it was entirely appropriate to give near around-the-clock-coverage due to the story's magnitude. "

Russiagate's Damage To The Country Will Take Years To Realize. Millions of Americans have been led to believe that President Trump committed treason, and any day he could be led out of the White House in chains. They wake up every day thinking this could be the day that Mueller gets Trump. These poor souls should be facing a tough reality this weekend. But hold the Xanax, at least for now. The media and Democrat Party have dug themselves so deeply in a hole, they must keep on digging. That's absolutely terrible for this country, as has been this entire endeavor.

MSM Journalists Turn on Obama CIA Director John Brennan. Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan faced a day of reckoning on Monday [3/25/2019], after the Special Counsel investigation did not establish there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia after extensive investigation. Although conservatives have long cast a wary eye at the former CIA director, whose hyper-partisan rants and high-profile role as a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC and MSNBC went beyond the partisanship of previous CIA chiefs in recent memory, mainstream media journalists are now also questioning his credibility.

Donald Trump, the bewildering black swan. All the smart people, liberal and conservative, agreed, from National Review to the Wall Street Journal, from the New York Times to the Washington Post. And then he won. What happened? How was this possible? How could we explain to our friends, colleagues, and families that we were wrong? Hillary suffered a virtual nervous breakdown and concocted the Russia collusion theory. The media flocked to this fantasy, and the Mueller fiasco began. After two years, this long national nightmare is over.

Russiagate — a Bright, Shining Lie. Reeling from Trump's exoneration, big media are now scurrying to their fallback position: Mueller did not exonerate Trump of obstruction of justice. But Mueller was not obstructed. No one impeded his labors. As for Trump's rages against his investigation, they were the natural reaction of an innocent man falsely accused and facing disgrace and ruin for a crime he did not commit, indeed, a crime that had never been committed.

Into a Mating Net with the Fourth Estate. Now roughly half the people in the country (and probably more since publication over the weekend of the summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report) see the corporate left-wing media for what they are — vile propagandists who hate Trump supporters, not just as citizens and voters, but because they conceive of them as unworthy human beings. Neither the slandered nor the slanderers are going to change. So now what? It's too late for change because, as polls have shown, the media have accumulated a string of witnesses to their journalistic crimes, most notably their unforgivable promotion of the Russian collusion hoax.

Trump allies await results of two internal probes that could expose Russia investigation backstory. DOJ Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz confirmed at a panel discussion last week that his office is continuing to review potential surveillance abuses by the FBI, a review that began last March and that Fox News is told is nearing completion. Horowitz has previously found that senior FBI officials routinely leaked information without authorization to the media, and also received "improper gifts" from reporters, including meals and sporting event tickets. Most notably, Horowitz found that FBI officials' anti-Trump communications raised doubts as to the integrity of their work.

Echoes of Lee Atwater in Reinvented Lindsey Graham. Many political junkies still remember Lee Atwater who died 28 years ago from a brain tumor on March 29, 1991. While the passing of the fiery political operative and former GOP national chairman remains largely un-commemorated, an event this past year with Atwater's fellow South Carolinian Lindsey Graham echoes Atwater's fearlessness on the political stage. Senator Graham reportedly is preparing a counter-investigation into Democrats in the wake of President Trump being absolved of any Russian collusion.

The Mueller-Industrial Complex Collapses. In a letter to Congress on Sunday, Attorney General William Barr declared that while Robert Mueller's report found evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and did not exonerate President Donald Trump, it also did "not conclude that the president committed a crime." And so the special counsel's months-long investigation into Trump's dealings with Russia ended with an inconclusive conclusion: No smoking gun would result in Trump's hasty removal from office.

The Mueller investigation could cost up to $35 million once all the expense reports are in. The special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation could cost up to $35 million once all the expenses are tallied. Mueller submitted his report on his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election to Attorney General William Barr on Friday, signaling the end of the special counsel's direct role in it. Barr has since delivered his summary of the report to Congress. Barr said Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and that while the special counsel did not find President Donald Trump guilty of obstruction of justice or any other crime, the report still "does not exonerate him."

The Editor says...

If the special counsel did not find Trump to be demonstrably guilty of any crime, that most certainly does exonerate him.

We should all be celebrating the collapse of Hillary's big lie. Stick a fork in impeachment. It's dead. Victory doesn't get any sweeter for the winners. Or more important for our country. The results of the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller are a tremendous vindication for President Trump and the many millions of Americans who never doubted his innocence. The findings prove, once and for all time, that he won the 2016 election fair and square. Let me repeat the point: It is now a fact beyond any doubt whatsoever that Donald Trump is the legitimate 45th president of the United States.

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Stop Cheering This Travesty! It validates a hoax to applaud the fact that Mueller found nothing. There never was anything to find! There never was any collusion! There was never, ever any evidence of collusion! Therefore, there could never, ever be any evidence of obstruction of justice. The dossier was the sole reason all of this happened, and it was created by Hillary Clinton and Robert Mueller knew it! It was paid for by Hillary Clinton. It was commissioned by Hillary Clinton.

The Special Counsel Weighs In. The show was never about Russia so much as it was about Donald Trump: his improbability as president, his character, his manners, his tweets. There's never been any way he wouldn't be looked at — hard — for the resolving of suspicions he was up to no good. Looked at he was, for the merest suspicions kindled by his relationships with such as Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Not to mention Vladimir Putin.

The Late, Not-So-Great Mueller Investigation. Had Hillary Clinton just won the 2016 election, there would have been neither a Mueller investigation nor much talk of Russian collusion. A losing Donald Trump would have slunk off to left-wing and Never-Trump ridicule and condemnation — and no investigation about collusion. A defeated Trump would have posed no threat to the 16-year Obama-Clinton progressive project. President Clinton would have been content to let her unverified but lurid dossier rumors hound Trump for the rest of his life, with Trump as the supposed "loser" who had tried, in cahoots with the Russians, to unfairly beat Hillary, though he pathetically failed even at that.

U.S. Was Closer To Coup D'Etat Than Ever Before. The Russian-collusion argument was always an absurd, a practically insane proposition. The fact that it enjoyed the currency it did as long as it did illustrates the cognitive incapacity of the Obama-Clinton majority to accept that they were honestly defeated in 2016. Worse than that, while it was just mad partisanship by most Democrats and most of the political press, the collusion fraud was a crime, of extreme gravity, by its perpetrators. Even today, main-line Democrats do not understand the country's reservations about President Obama's flatlined new normal of no growth in family purchasing power, evaporating "red lines" in foreign policy, approval of Iranian and North Korean development of nuclear weapons with which to blackmail America and, in Iran's case, threaten to exterminate Israel, and generally to blame white male Americans for every evil under heaven.

Apologies to President Trump. With the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe now known to a significant degree, it seems apologies are in order. However, judging by the recent past, apologies are not likely forthcoming from the responsible parties. In this context, it matters not whether one is a supporter or a critic of President Trump. Whatever his supposed flaws, the rampant accusations and speculation that shrouded Trump's presidency, even before it began, ultimately have proven unfounded. Just as Trump said all along.

Devin Nunes: hero of the republic. Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller concluded his investigation by exonerating President Trump of collusion with Russian forces during the 2016 election. Investigating that supposed collusion is the reason he was appointed and his final report declared that he and his team could find no evidence to support the allegation. But for more than two years, the nation has been torn apart by the claims made Democrats and their operatives in the media. They were sure — sure! — that President Trump would be forced from office in disgrace. The conspiracy theorists seethed with fundamentalist conviction, confident that Robert Mueller would lead them to the promised land. Nonetheless, many are sticking to their story. There may be no evidence, but they just know it in their bones!

Celebrities Lose Their Minds After Mueller Exonerates Trump. Limousine liberals, many of whom are in the advanced stages of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), have suddenly forgotten that they once loved Robert Mueller. The special counsel, they hoped, would once and for all find evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election his way. But after two years on inquiry and tens of millions of dollars, Mueller didn't find diddly, and said so, at least according to a summary of the report's findings. That set off the glitterati, who went bonkers after the findings were released Sunday.

Kellyanne Conway Calls on Liberal Hack Adam Schiff to Resign "Immediately". White House counselor Kellyanne Conway went on FOX and Friends on Monday to gloat following the exoneration of President Donald Trump, his campaign and family in the corrupt Mueller witch hunt. During the conversation Kellyanne WENT OFF on liberal hack Adam Schiff who insisted he had proof of Trump collusion with Russia. Schiff was lying and continued to spread this lie for two years.

Media pulled off big con with Russia collusion story. The whole thing was one giant lie. And everybody peddling it — from House Democratic leaders, to Senate Democrats running for president, to the Senate Republican who reported the whole thing in the first place, to the roaring lions of the Great White Media — knew it was a lie.

It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD. Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media. As has long been rumored, the former FBI chief's independent probe will result in multiple indictments and convictions, but no "presidency-wrecking" conspiracy charges, or anything that would meet the layman's definition of "collusion" with Russia.

Obstruction of Justice. Just as it is obvious that there was no Trump collusion with Russia and that I never was involved in a bank hold up, so it is obvious that President Trump did not "obstruct justice" during the Mueller Investigation into the Collusion That Never Happened. Why, then, did Mueller end up with an enigmatic conundrum as to whether there was obstruction of justice — not enough to charge, but not sure whether to exonerate?

Jesse Watters: 'There are a Lot of Potential Felonies' from the Obama Administration. Fox News host Jesse Watters lamented that a lot of "potential felonies" can be linked to the Obama administration but they just might get away with it. Watters remarks came during a Watters' World panel discussion on Robert Mueller handing over his report to Attorney General William Barr. According to Watters, the fact that there is "no collusion" is bad for Democrats and the media and good for President Donald Trump. "I feel like this delivers a knock-out blow to the press and Democrats who have been saying collusion collusion collusion the last two years. When you couple that with a hot economy and the decimation of the ISIS caliphate, this is a two-term presidency," Watters opined. "So the Democrats will have to start working with this president and not working against him. But I'm pretty angry. The people that set this up, what's going to happen to them? Are they going to be accountable or not?"

The Next Shoes to Drop After the Mueller Report. The Democrats and their media allies have made "Russia Collusion" their top story line for two years. If they persist on that course instead of focusing on health care, income inequality, and foreign enemies, they look like Inspector Javert, or, worse, Inspector Clouseau. The mainstream media are already badly damaged. They followed the same path and, in the process, obliterated the once-sacred line between reporting and opinion.

The Trump-Russia conspiracy was one of the worst shaggy dog stories in American history. I derive no pleasure from the news that the summary of Robert Mueller's interminable special counsel investigation sent to the House and Senate judiciary committees by Attorney General William Barr confirms my views. I say this not least because even the word of Mueller himself, whom liberal activists have spent the last two years turning into a kind of cartoon hero, complete with merchandise, is not enough to convince those who dislike Trump and would like to undermine his administration to change their minds. It was always resentment in search of a conspiracy, which anti-Trump enthusiasts attempted to will into existence by games of connect-the-dots, exercises that could just as easily have been brought to bear upon any prominent politician or businessman in the post-Soviet era.

Rand Paul: Investigate Obama officials who 'concocted Russian conspiracy hoax'. The backlash has begun on top Democrats who pushed the claims of Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign. Sen. Rand Paul today [3/25/2019] called on Justice to investigate the Obama aides who forced the false claims into public. "Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!" he tweeted.

Will There Be an Accounting? There is much to investigate: the fraudulently obtained FISA warrants; the hundreds of incidents of unmasking of innocent American citizens; the attempt by the FBI's top leadership to swing the election to Hillary Clinton or, failing that, to derail the newly-elected Trump administration; the CIA's role in leaking the fake "dossier" to the press while purporting to "brief" President Trump on its contents, thereby giving the Democratic Party news media permission, with a wink and a nod, to report on the Clinton campaign's fake "dossier" in the guise of a news story. And, of course, the over-arching question: what did Barack Obama know, and when did he know it? That is only a partial list.

Rep. Maxine Waters: 'We cannot allow them to get away with this'. Rep. Maxine Waters showed no sign of slowing her calls to impeach President Trump after special counsel Robert Mueller's report found no evidence of Russian collusion. [...] "He's been saying 'no collusion, 'no collusion,' 'no collusion' over and over again for a long time now, and he's going try to conclude that this report is proof that there is no collusion," she said. "And you have a lot of his sycophants who will take the nod from him, and they'll say the same thing. But we cannot allow them to get away with this."

NBC 'Today' host Savannah Guthrie asks Sarah Sanders if Trump owes Mueller an apology. Sometimes it's almost too much to take. This morning [3/25/2019] Savannah Guthrie of NBC asked the White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders if President Trump owed Special Counsel Robert Mueller an apology. Sanders deftly parried the ridiculous notion with the statement that "Democrats and the liberal media owe the president and they owe the American people an apology."

Mueller Madness: The media pundits who got it most wrong. Special counsel Robert Mueller has definitively put to rest the collusion theory of President Trump's election. That's not a little embarrassing for the many journalists, talking heads, celebrities and instant experts who spent more than two years furiously speculating about Moscow "pee-pee" tapes, treasonous rendezvous and the president's imminent arrest. The president's haters no doubt wish to memory-hole collusion and move on to the next anti-Trump theory. But not so fast: We want to laurel the punditry "champion" — the one who peddled the most nonsensical nonsense, the wildest inanities, the weirdest theories and unsubstantiated stories.

He probably watches CNN too much.

Ex-CIA head Brennan on Trump attacks: I may have relied on 'bad information'. Former head of the CIA John Brennan admitted on Monday [3/25/2019] that he may have relied on "bad information" for his relentless attacks on President Trump. Brennan — who once warned that "our Nation's future is at stake" — told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he may have been misled on the extent of Trump's connections to Russia. "Well, I don't know if I received bad information but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was," Brennan said. "I am relieved that it's been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election."

Russia to Judgment: On the Origin of Conspiracy Theories and the Fake News Trifecta. The headline in The Washington Post on Monday morning [3/25/2019] read: "Mueller finds no conspiracy." To say that many leading Democrats are now down in the dumps is an under-statement; their hope that the legal process would solve the challenge of the 2020 presidential election has now been obliterated. Yet dinged as the Democrats might be, the Main Stream Media has suffered more enduring damage.

Disappointed Fans of Mueller Rethink the Pedestal They Built for Him. Over the nearly two years of the Mueller investigation, a segment of liberals and activists built up fervent hopes that it would bring Mr. Trump down. They elevated Mr. Mueller, a former F.B.I. director, into an anti-Trump cultural icon, complete with T-shirts, scented candles and holiday-themed songs like "We Wish You a Mueller Christmas." For some of them, the report felt like a betrayal. To many others, it was a disappointment.

Make them pay for their failed coup. Last night was like election night 2016, with on-air news personality Rachel Maddow breaking down and crying because Bungling Bob Mueller's witch hunt is over. Donald John Trump is still president. The media coup failed because no matter how many times you say "Russian Collusion" in a candle-lit room, it will not appear.

Does The Left WANT Civil War? [Scroll down] There is in fact plenty of evidence that officials in the FBI were the ones who interfered in an American Presidential election. If that proves up and is not punished it's well beyond the boundaries of the insults from the British Crown that led to the American Revolution. Russians spent $4,700 on Google ads before the 2016 election. May I ask how much did the United States spend to interfere in the Ukraine and their election? Millions. Number of people who have gone to prison for doing that? Zero. [...] When the Democrats lost the election they then decided to commit to spending $30 milllion of taxpayer's dollars looking for something they knew didn't exist. They knew it didn't exist because they invented it out of whole cloth as part of a campaign strategy intended to win the White House and when that failed they tried to turn a document full of knowing lies into a weapon and use it to destroy the results of an election through an armed branch of the United States Government.

A Review of the Barr "Principal Conclusion" Notification, Overlaying Three Years of Background Research. CTH is going to break down the AG Barr Principal Conclusion notification letter against more than three years of background research. Yes, more than "three years", is the correct time-frame here. The origin of the DOJ/FBI operation against Donald Trump goes back to 2015; the Mueller probe was a 2017 concluding chapter in the seditious conspiracy effort. I'm going to cite as much background as possible; however, this review encompasses so much granular history that some parts might be too complex for a person who only recently jumped into the story. Disclaimer: this outline does not fit the narrative from those who claim Mueller and Rosenstein are honorable men. They ain't.

Alan Dershowitz Discusses the Conniving Political Duplicity of Team Mueller. Alan Dershowitz is exactly correct on the point; but he's incorrect on the Mueller team's motive. Team Mueller didn't punt the Obstruction issue to the Attorney General because Mueller's a coward. Team Mueller punted the Obstruction issue because they specifically wanted to create room for The House to work an impeachment angle. It was a political decision. [Video clip]

The Hunt for the Red Nothing Burger. Mueller made a considerable effort: employing 19 lawyers and 40 FBI agents, issuing 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 230 communications orders, 50 orders for pen registers, 13 requests to foreign governments for evincing, and interviewing 500 witnesses — yet ultimately finding n0 collusion. Mueller assiduously prosecuted what was presented as a definite contact. Yet after the equivalent of a destroyer captain carrying out numerous active sonar searches, MAD detection sweeps, and a bottom search he found nothing. But a negative result isn't a total waste. It shows what is not there. While Mueller brought indictments for the ordinary kind of Washington crime against several persons, he found no collusion. Like a patient who after a battery of tests finds he has acid reflux and ulcers but no stomach cancer, a negative result is full of information.

This Is The GOP's Message For Dems. The Russia probe has plagued Americans' lives for the last 22 months. Democrats have ran with the idea that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia. Now that Attorney General William Barr has vindicated Trump, Republicans have a clear message for Democrats: it's time to move on. It's time for our country to heal from this disaster.

The Editor says...

No, it's not time to heal, it's time to let the pendulum swing in the other direction. It's time to have a two-year Mueller-style inquisition into Hillary Clinton's business. At long last, let's have a look at the Clintons' baggage, all the way back to Arkansas. It took a while to catch up with Bill Cosby, but eventually he went to prison.

Trump, falsely accused of collusion, faces new onslaught of obstruction accusations. A reasonable reading of Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's findings is that President Trump was falsely accused of conspiring or coordinating with Russia to fix the 2016 election. The same goes for people around Trump who were also falsely accused. "The Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election," attorney general William Barr wrote in a letter to Congress Sunday [3/24/2019]. "As the report states: '[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.'"

The Mueller Dud. The release on Sunday afternoon of Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of the Mueller report confirmed what everyone with a few brain cells and common sense knew two years ago: there was no collusion between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. While the charge was ludicrous on its face, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report has now removed all doubt surrounding it. The shame of it is that the Mueller investigation — driven by hyperpartisanship and using the power of the legal and justice system to litigate political and policy differences by those who refused to accept the 2016 election results — spent $35 million, employed 19 attorneys, 40 FBI agents and staff, issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed more than 500 search warrants, got 230 orders for communications records, and made 13 requests to foreign governments, and interviewed roughly 500 witnesses to prove there was no collusion.

NeverTrump's Complicity in Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. For nearly three years, these Trump-hating propagandists on the Right have aided the most mendacious forces on the Left in a grievous attempt to take down the Republican president of the United States. While they preened, prattled, and proselytized about how much better they are than deplorable Trumpists, NeverTrumpers en masse abandoned their so-called traditional conservative principles in order to aid a Hillary Clinton-DNC-Obama Administration scheme to destroy the political pariah who won the presidency over their collective objection.

Trump-haters horrified that Mueller found no evidence the president is a traitor. The left predictably melted down in shocked and sensational fashion when the summary of the Mueller report written by AG Barr and Deputy AG Rosenstein was released and read on Sunday, and it was announced that there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Despite the abundance of facts that have long proved the Trump-Russia collusion meme was a hoax devised by the Clintons, approved by Obama and orchestrated by the corrupt overlords at the DOJ and FBI, our pathetic media, even Fox News, called the news of Mueller's exoneration a bombshell.

Nota Bene: No One in America Gets Exonerated. "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," Attorney General Barr quotes Mr. Mueller as writing. This is being met with excitement among the Democrats. Speaker Pelosi suggests that Congress needs urgently to look at the full Mueller report because "on a charge as serious as obstruction" the report fails to exonerate the president. Yet of course Mr. Mueller failed to exonerate the president. No one can exonerate him. Nor would anyone, in a normal — or abnormal — criminal case, ever be expected to exonerate a person who has been accused or is merely suspected. Neither, though, is it necessary for President Trump, or anyone else in this case, to be "exonerated." That's because, in America, the burden is solely on the prosecution. It is our principle that no man, no woman, no child, no matter their circumstances, no person suspected, or accused, of a crime can be required to prove his innocence. No matter the crime, no one needs to prove his innocence. He is presumed innocent. The burden of proof is solely, one hundred percent, completely, entirely — and without exception, even if the president is involved — on the accuser.

The Most Epic Media Failure in U.S. History. It's like election night, November 2016, all over again. Once again, leftist delusions have been shattered, this time by a putative ally — special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller turned over every rock, looked in every nook and cranny of the Trump campaign and concluded that no member of that organization — including candidate Trump — worked with the Russians to influence the 2016 race for president. Thus, the 675 days spent investigating dubious scenario is over. What does Mueller have to show for it? He got various Trump aides on lying to the FBI and sleazeball Paul Manafort on some other crimes unrelated to collusion. But, like any good little bureaucrat, he carefully documented all the work he did: 2800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, more than 230 orders for communication records, 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and 500 witnesses interviews.

Zero, zilch, nada: That's the bottom line on 'collusion'. Attorney General William Barr's Sunday letter to Congress leaves no doubt: Three years of investigation, including two years under special counsel Robert Mueller, found no evidence of Team Trump "collusion" with Russia. Yes, the news is a bit less definitive on the "obstruction" front: Barr says Mueller's findings were "not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense," but that basically boils down to the Washington establishment's distaste for the way President Trump fired FBI chief Jim Comey, and raged against the Mueller probe as a "witch hunt." Crucially, Barr says that the president's questionable actions "were not done with corrupt intent." That is: Trump knew he hadn't colluded, and acted accordingly toward those who seemed bent on suggesting otherwise to the American public.

The Public Reckoning Over Russiagate Will Not Be Televised. Amidst the misty-eyed cable news anchors and the hastily arranged panels of pundits carrying out a series of televised group therapy sessions, a theme began to take shape — a soothing, healing crystal in the form of an incantation of hope and deliverance: This can't be the end. There's got to be more. This isn't the end. There's going to be more. Say it with me: This can't be the end. [...] There will be no public mea culpa from the media for two years of feverishly biased hyping of unfounded allegations that the president of the United States is engaged in treason and actively operating as an agent of the Russian Federation. Nor will we hear any indications of regret from the current and former Democratic politicians and intelligence community officials who initiated, distributed, and sustained those allegations through leaks, on-air commentary, or both.

RussiaGate was a hoax perpetrated against the American people. One of the most shameful chapters of American political history ended Sunday [3/24/2019] — not with a bang, but with stunned silence over the realization that Americans have been fed an utter lie for nearly two years. A letter to members of Congress by Attorney General William Barr summarizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report is out. It shows not a scintilla of evidence for the Trump-Russia "collusion" hoax that biased journalists and sore-loser politicians have spent countless hours and reams of print and TV time promoting. In fact, it reveals quite the opposite.

Trump-Russia 'collusion' was always a hoax — and dirtiest political trick in modern US history. There was never any evidence that Donald Trump "colluded" with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election from Hillary Clinton. It was all a hoax. It constituted what is surely the dirtiest political trick in modern American history. The hoax was based largely on an anti-Trump "dossier" conjured from the fertile imaginations of two nefarious characters: ex-British spy Christopher Steele; and Fusion GPS Founder, Glenn Simpson. It was commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democrats, then peddled all over Washington to journalists, the FBI, the State Department and the Department of Justice.

Trump is vindicated on collusion, Mueller punts on obstruction, and the rule of law triumphs. For the second time in 48 hours, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated he is determined to go by the law, not bend to the winds of politics. This is exactly what the nation's top law enforcement officer should do. Barr's letter to members of Congress Sunday [3/24/2019] summarizing the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller — clearing President Trump, his campaign and associates of allegations that they colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election — follows perfectly the letter of the governing regulations under which Mueller was appointed.

No Collusion: 10 anonymously sourced Trump-Russia bombshells that look like busts. Attorney General William Barr told Congress on Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no criminal collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government. Over the course of the years-long Mueller investigation, some of the media's biggest stories resulted in retractions, apologies, and even departures. Some reports, many of which relied on unnamed sources and remain uncorroborated, have never been retracted or corrected. One such story was even refuted by the Special Counsel's Office in a rare public rebuke.

We should all be celebrating the collapse of Hillary's big lie. The results of the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller are a tremendous vindication for President Trump and the many millions of Americans who never doubted his innocence. The findings prove, once and for all time, that he won the 2016 election fair and square. [...] We now know that Hillary Clinton and her supporters misled the country in claiming that the White House was stolen from her. She started the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and her claims, aided by the Obama White House and magnified by a thoroughly partisan media, set in motion a wild-goose chase. The chase undermined a duly elected president and cost taxpayers more than $30 million for an investigation that proved the accusations were flat-out false.

Democrats Guaranteed Trump-Russia Collusion. Mueller Couldn't Find It. High-profile Democrats repeatedly promised the public they would see evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. But special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia's 2016 election meddling, according to a four-page letter that Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress on Sunday [3/24/2019]. "The Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election," Barr's letter states.

Trump team turns tables after Mueller report, calls for investigation into probe's origin. President Trump and his legal team declared total victory Sunday following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's key findings — including no evidence of collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign — but sought to turn the tables by renewing calls to investigate the investigators. Trump himself slammed the probe as an "illegal takedown," as he called Mueller's report a "complete exoneration" and said it was a "shame" his presidency had to deal with the investigation for two years. "Hopefully somebody is going to look at the other side," Trump said. "This was an illegal takedown that failed and hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side."

Nadler: We Can't 'Rely on' Barr's Possibly 'Hasty, Partisan Interpretation' of Mueller Report. While speaking to reporters on Sunday [3/24/2019], House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that Attorney General William Barr's conclusions on the Mueller report "raise more questions than they answer." He also stated that "We cannot simply rely on what may be a hasty, partisan interpretation of the facts."

The Editor says...

In my opinion, Mr. Nadler is in no position to criticize others for "partisan interpretation of the facts."

Top-Ranking Democrat Says Mueller Report Doesn't Matter — 'We Know There Was Collusion'. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler confirmed Sunday [3/24/2019] that Congress will continue to investigate President Donald Trump regardless of the conclusions reached by special counsel Robert Mueller. "We know there was collusion," Nadler insisted several times during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" with guest host Dana Bash. "Why there's been no indictments, we don't know."

The Editor says...

With or without honest investigators, authentic documents, believable witnesses, credible testimony, or admissible evidence, the Democrats instinctively know there's something criminal going on in the White House. They just know it. And if the Democrats are sure, the "news" media will try to convince everybody else.

Trump Celebrates Mueller Findings: 'This Was an Illegal Takedown That Failed'. President Donald Trump's first reaction to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's findings, which were revealed in a summary on Sunday by the attorney general, came via tweet. Moments later, he spoke to cable news outlets from tarmac in Palm Beach, Florida. [...] "It began illegally," Trump said of the investigation. "And hopefully somebody is going to look at the other side, this was an illegal takedown that failed. And hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side. So it's a complete exoneration, no collusion, no obstruction, thank you very much."

MSNBC's Tur on Mueller Report: 'This Vindicates the President on Collusion'. Buckle up, folks. Because the meltdowns we're about to see concerning the principle conclusions of the Mueller Report via a letter from Attorney General Bill Barr will rival or top those seen on election night 2016. Upon being read portions of the Barr letter, MSNBC host and one-time Trump campaign correspondent Katy Tur was forced to painstaking admit that Mueller's findings have "vindicate[d] the President on collusion."

Barr's letter to Congress. [Scroll down] In making this determination, we noted that the Special Counsel recognized that "the evidence does not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference," and that, while not determinative, the absence of such evidence bears upon the President's intent with respect to obstruction. Generally speaking, to obtain and sustain an obstruction conviction, the government would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person, acting with corrupt intent, engaged in obstructive conduct with a sufficient nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding. In cataloguing the President's actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department's principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense.

A Key Voice — John Ratcliffe Discusses Mueller Report. It should always be remembered that Representative John Ratcliffe is one of only a few members of congress who have seen every single document across the entire spectrum of classification. Rep. Ratcliffe appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo for a lengthy discussion on the Mueller probe, report, and the findings. [Video clip]

Mueller report summary released, showing no definitive proof Trump team conspired with Russia. Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released the "principal conclusions" of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's completed Russia probe in a bombshell four-page letter to Capitol Hill lawmakers, which stated definitively that Mueller did not establish evidence that President Trump's team or any associates of the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to sway the 2016 election — "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign." For Trump, who has tweeted more than 230 times that he did not collude with Russians amid a torrent of allegations from media and political figures, the moment amounted to a near-total vindication.

Nadler vows to subpoena, take fight to Supreme Court to get full Mueller report. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., vowed to take the fight over getting special counsel Robert Mueller's full report released to the public all the way to the Supreme Court. In an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, Nadler said House Democrats are poised to issue subpoenas and would "absolutely" take the matter to the high court if necessary. "We'll try to negotiate. We'll try everything else first, but if we have to, yes, we will certainly issue subpoenas to get that information," Nadler said.

Democrats need to change the subject. Fast. Pelosi and the Never Trumpers got exactly what they asked for: a special prosecutor. And then they got exactly what they deserve: humiliation. Barack Hussein Obama failed to give President Donald John Trump the same peaceful transition of power that President George Walker Bush gave Obama. Instead, his appointees tried to sabotage the new president. The insubordination of Sally Q. Yates deserved punishment[.] But now Obama and his acolytes as well as the Never Trumpers look exactly like the fools they are.

The Mueller investigation is complete and not one single American was charged, indicted or convicted for conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Compare what cable hosts (let's leave them unnamed) & Democratic operatives spent two years claiming this would lead to — the imprisonment of Don, Jr., Jared, even Trump on conspiracy-with-Russia charges — to what it actually produced. A huge media reckoning is owed. Don't even try to pretend the point of the Mueller investigation from the start wasn't to obtain prosecutions of Americans guilty of conspiring with Russia to influence the outcome of the election or that Putin controlled Trump through blackmail. Nobody will believe your denials.

Lara Logan's Response To Mueller Report Is An Indictment Of American Media. Journalist Lara Logan said Saturday [3/23/2019] that the response to the Mueller report was striking because of what was not happening: there were no blaring headlines boldly proclaiming the vindication of President Donald Trump. Logan, during an appearance on "Fox & Friends" Saturday, argued that if the Mueller report had resulted in indictments or charges of any kind, that would most certainly be the top story in every paper.

Todd Laments Trump Never Dragged Before a Grand Jury, Frets He'll 'Banana Republic Us'. Well, it's finally here. Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report on the Russia investigation late Friday afternoon [3/22/2019] to Attorney General William Barr and the liberal media began to conflagrate. During the early evening buzz on MSNBC's MTP Daily, host Chuck Todd seemed to express concern over the fact that Mueller allowed President Trump and his legal team to answer written questions, instead of testifying before a grand jury. [...] Of course, Todd's fretting was empty because lying to federal investigators is illegal either way. And despite the fact that he admitted Trump answered written questions, [California Congressman Eric] Swalwell bizarrely insisted Trump's testimony would not be included in the report. "I believe the President will have no credibility to attack the report. Because the state of the evidence will not include his testimony," he lied.

Mueller Delivers Liberals A Giant [Dud]. It's not often I, like most of America, make a point to watch MSNBC or CNN. [...] Everyone on those two channels should have been apologetic, gaslighting the country for 2 years before having the curtain ripped back so thoroughly should have been met with some humility. They should have been begging their audience for forgiveness. They were not. Hilariously, these knuckle-dragging buffoons tried to play the "We have to wait and see what's in the report" card. Suddenly, pragmatism and a desire to avoid speculation became the order of the day. It was as if the people who hear dog whistles in everything a Republican says had been deaf to their own voices for 2 years.

So Much 'Intense Media Speculation' Turned Out to Be Fake News. The entire story isn't told yet. But at this point, the liberal media need an energetic pressure to admit they have wasted hours and hours of "news" time imagining outcomes that don't look like they will materialize. Liberal journalists expected Mueller to build a case for scandalous collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. There was.... "no collusion" — no criminal conspiracy. Instead, the "news" channels merely channeled their wishful thinking.

The Great Gnashing Of Teeth: The Left Reacts To The Mueller Report. Not quite as miraculous as Trump's 2016 triumph over Hillary Clinton, but still a major victory for President Trump. We'll call it the first runner up. The thundercloud which has hung over the Trump administration for over two years has been lifted and the left doesn't like it — at all.

The Mueller Investigation Was A Distraction, The Bigger Story Is Coming. [T]here wasn't anything found that implicated Donald Trump in the Russian Collusion story ginned up by The Left. In case you didn't know this, that entire story was a lie. As a matter of fact, the collusion was pretty much all on the part of the Democrats. Everyone will be finding that out here in the future.

A bad couple of years for anonymous sources. [I]t was a really bad couple of years for those reporters, and their editors, who decided to break stories based on all those "sources familiar with the investigation." I wonder if any will have the character to step up and say "we messed up badly."

Delusional:

Beto O'Rourke: Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt, Trump Sought To Collude With Russia. Is this really from today, not from the campaign trail in Texas last year? I can't believe any Democrat would have the stones to double down on collusion the morning after we find out that not only won't Trump be indicted for conspiring with Russia, none of his inner circle will either.

The man certainly has a propensity for emotional outbursts.

Beto O'Rourke: If Mueller Report Is Held, America May Not See 244th Year. Democrat 2020 candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke warned from the campaign trail in South Carolina Friday night there may not be another year of America if the Mueller report is not made public. "Republicans and Democrats should do whatever they can to make sure their constituents, the American people, can read that report, form their own judgement, make their own decisions, and that the truth comes out," O'Rourke said at a campaign stop in South Carolina Friday [3/22/2019].

Special Counsel Official: "No Further Indictments", "No Sealed Indictments", The Mueller Probe is "Done". With the Mueller Report completed; and with massive 'splodey heads (beyond election night level) happening throughout leftist punditry and political analysts; there has been some last-gasp desperate clinging-to-hope speculation of looming "sealed indictments" that might exist in DC. Unfortunately, Laura Jarrett (daughter of Valerie Jarrett) delivered the bad news to her colleagues on CNN. After she spoke directly with a DOJ Official, and asked them if there was any possibility of sealed indictments existing/remaining. Alas, the answer was: "no, it's over; everything is over; it's done."

MSNBC'S Joy Reid on DoJ Handling of Mueller Report: 'It Feels Like the Seeds of a Cover-Up Are Here'. Saturday [3/23/2019] on MSNBC's "AM Joy," host Joy Reid suggested the possibility of a cover-up was underway regarding Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller's report and the any alleged wrongdoing of President Donald Trump or his associates. Reid said that given Attorney General William Barr wasn't recused, unlike his predecessor Jeff Sessions, there could be the "seeds of a cover-up" in place.

Dems' Collective Letter To Barr Is A Sign Of What's To Come. Just from the statement, it's looking as though Democrats are going to insist the Justice Department is covering up wrong doing if Robert Mueller's report indicates there was no collusion between President Donald Trump's team and the Russians.

Imagining Trump's America Without Robert Mueller. For the most fanatical Mueller watchers, the conclusion of the report is almost certain to bring disappointment, because anything but a presidency-ending indictment seems likely to fall short of their expectations.

End of the Mueller Affair. Robert Mueller is closing up shop. He has delivered his report to Attorney General Barr. No more indictments will be secured by his office. [...] No indictment secured by Mueller speaks to "collusion." There is a reason for this. "Collusion" was itself a fabrication of the Clinton presidential campaign courtesy of Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS and its contractors. The Mueller investigation leaves human wreckage in its wake. Whatever the Mueller report says, it will leave the Clinton campaign untouched and unscathed. The Mueller investigation takes its place as an extended episode of the biggest scandal in American political history.

Evidence! How did Schiff, Swalwell, and so many other talking heads lose sight of it? Even though we do not yet know exactly what the Mueller Report says, we do now know that no other indictments are in the works. No collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign was found. So, the self-assured and confident predictions by so many on the left that they had seen "cold, hard evidence," and that Mueller would find copious evidence of "collusion" with Russia, was just wishful thinking alone. They all had to know the infamous "dossier" was faked. The late Senator McCain, driven by his antipathy for Trump, may have believed it for a moment and so shopped it around in hopes it would derail Trump. They all had to know it had been commissioned by Hillary Clinton's campaign. They ignored these inconvenient facts. They leaped to a conclusion they hoped could be sold to the American public.

Mueller Report Fizzles. Prepare For The Reckoning. First of all, of course everyone should wait to see the contents of the actual Mueller report before drawing any specific final conclusions about it. But here are some laws of nature in the modern age: If that report contained a fraction of the damaging material breathlessly awaited in the media culture for two years, there would be some smoke signal of it. Instead, we saw an actual finding from the Justice Department that there would be no further indictments from the probe. No indictment of Trump. No indictment of anyone associated with the campaign or the administration to support the narrative of Russia collusion. Also, timing is everything. Friday's close of business is where stories go to die. As the Mueller report seized the news late in the day, TV viewership was a fraction of what it would have been on a Monday morning or a Wednesday midday.

Robert Mueller submits full report on Russia probe. Special counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his report on Russian meddling in the US election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign to Attorney General William Barr, the Justice Department said Friday [3/21/2019]. Justice notified Congress late Friday that it had received Mueller's report but did not disclose any of its conclusions.

Also posted under Friday night document dumps.

Mueller just filed Russia report. Here's what Barr should do with it. All we know at this point is that Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election to Attorney General William Barr on Friday. What we don't know is how the attorney general will handle the report. Barr has several options. The fairest would be to immediately turn the report over to President Trump's legal team and give them a week to write a response. Barr could then issue both reports simultaneously so that the American public could judge the comparative merits of both sides of this adversarial process. But there may well be pressures on the attorney general to send the report to Congress — thus making it public — as soon as he can vet it for possible national security omissions.

Swalwell: I Don't Think I'll Accept a Report 'Unless Its Veracity Is Testified to' by Mueller. On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "MTP Daily," House Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee member Eric Swalwell (D-CA) stated that he doesn't think he or the majority of his colleagues will accept a report "unless its veracity is testified to by Bob Mueller." Swalwell began by saying, "[T]he American people will see every word, every comma, every period of this report. The president is outnumbered now in a way that he was not before." He added, "Second, I don't think I, and most of my colleagues, will accept a report unless its veracity is testified to by Bob Mueller. [...]"

Adam Schiff Threatens to Subpoena Mueller After Russia Probe Wraps. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that his panel will subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller if more details regarding his report on possible collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia is required. "If necessary, we will call Bob Mueller or others before our committee," Schiff told CNN host Wolf Blitzer, adding that the House Judiciary Committee could request Attorney General Bill Barr testify on the report's findings, as well.

Robert Mueller Not Recommending Any More Indictments in Russia Probe. Special counsel Robert Mueller will not recommend any more indictments as part of his investigation, the Justice Department announced Friday evening [3/22/2019]. A senior Justice Department official announced the development shortly after the special counsel submitted its final report to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. Barr will now review the report and write his own report on Mueller's findings and present them to Congress as soon as this weekend. "

Mueller wraps up — but don't expect the hysteria to end. Special Counsel Bob Mueller has handed in his report, marking the effective end of the three-year Trump-Russia investigation. Hallelujah! This means that Mueller firmly expects to file no more criminal charges, which pretty much confirms that all the media and political hysteria about his investigation was driven more by partisan wishful thinking than by anything resembling hard evidence.

After 675 Days of Witch Hunt: More Than 80% of Mueller Indictments Were of Russian Actors Who Will Never See US Courtroom. The corrupt Mueller team indicted 37 individuals and 3 companies, with more than 4 out of 5 of the indicted individuals related to Russians who may not even be real and probably had nothing to do with our 2016 election. Dirty cop Robert Mueller and his team of conflicted liberal attorneys and investigators saw their unconstitutional witch hunt fall apart. It seems like on a daily basis more and more information becomes available of the entire gang's unlawful acts. In spite of this, they charged forward working with their mainstream media (MSM) to report their unlawful and phony leaks planned to keep their criminal conspiracy alive.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews livid over Mueller report: 'How could they let Trump off the hook?'. MSNBC host Chris Matthews expressed outrage on Friday upon hearing reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had completed his Russia investigation and submitted it to the attorney general — with further indictments not expected. Matthews began his show by summarizing the breaking news, but stressed that Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice "without ever directly interviewing the president of the United States."

Mika Brzezinski Stunned as She Reads Off Teleprompter: 'No More Indictments' by Mueller. MSNBC's Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski was caught off guard Friday morning as she read the latest news on the Mueller investigation off the Teleprompter. Brzezinski could not control her shocked reaction as she read an ABC report that "no more indictments are coming from the special counsel." Brzezinski's eyes narrowed and blinked as a stunned look crossed her face while her voiced strained in pitch as she questioned what she was reading.

Mainstream media, celebrities stunned as Mueller report filed with no new indictments planned. The mainstream media seemed to suffer a collective shock Friday evening after the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller handed its final report of its Russia investigation to the Department of Justice. MSNBC host Chris Matthews seemed livid that neither President Trump, his children, nor his "henchmen" would face any criminal charges from the special counsel. [...] Matthew's primetime colleague, Rachel Maddow, was visibly emotional throughout her show. Maddow kicked off by telling her viewers she was reporting live from Tennessee because she felt she needed to interrupt her vacation to address the breaking news. She appeared to be holding back tears.

Five things that didn't happen in the Mueller investigation.

[#1] Mueller did not indict Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, or other people whose purported legal jeopardy was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

[#2] Mueller did not charge anyone in the Trump campaign or circle with conspiring with Russia to fix the 2016 election, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

[#3] Mueller did not subpoena the president, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

[#4] The president did not fire Mueller, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

[#5] The president did not interfere with the Mueller investigation, as was the subject of intense media speculation in the last year.

CNN Admits No Further Mueller Indictments Is a 'Huge Victory for the President'. Talk about a bad day to be analysts, commentators, hosts, and pundits at CNN who had been wanting the First Family's legal situation to end in criminal charges and for the Trump presidency to end in disgrace. On Friday afternoon [3/22/2019] after the Mueller Report had been handed over to Attorney General Bill Barr, chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz conceded that the lack of further indictments (sealed or unsealed) in relation to the Mueller probe is a "huge victory for the President" and "really good news" for individuals who had been subject to endless media speculation. [Video clip]

Flashback: John Brennan Wrongly Predicts More Mueller Indictments. Appearing March 5th on MSNBC's The Last Word, former CIA Director John Brennan told host Lawrence O'Donnell he "wouldn't be surprised" if special counsel Robert Mueller unveiled additional indictments by Friday, March 8th.

MSNBC's Katy Tur Desperately Moves The Goalposts On Collusion As Her Narrative Collapses. This is predictable and sad. After two years of pushing collusion conspiracy theories non-stop, the media are suddenly getting restless. It's time to shift the goalposts because simply admitting they are wrong would be outside of their purview. Enter Katy Tur, a self-described fire-fighting "journalist" over at MSNBC who's never met a hysterical Trump-Russia story she didn't want to push. Now, after all flailing and gnashing of teeth day after day, she's decided it doesn't matter anymore.

US Attorney John Durham investigates:

Claims That DOJ Prosecutors Don't Normally Resign Are Distortions and Purposefully Dishonest. I noted several examples on Twitter yesterday of the "Greek Chorus" for "Former Federal Prosecutors" banging cymbals like wind-up monkeys and shrieking "