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It is clear Congress and the American people must hear from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in person to better understand his findings. We are now requesting Mueller to appear before @HouseJudiciary as soon as possible.

I'm not an expert on this stuff, but this seems like an interesting part on page 18 of the PDF that I haven't seen other people point out, where Mueller says his conclusions could conceivably be different if not for witnesses lying, invoking privilege, etc.

Barr totally lied about why Mueller didn't decide whether Trump obstructed. justice.gov/storage/report…

The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation. After a two year investigation, the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin.

You know how Barr kept saying that Mueller's decision "not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment" had "nothing" to do with DOJ's policy against indicting a sitting president. That. Was. A. Flat-out. Lie. Here's what Mueller said:

We believe the only way to begin restoring public trust in the handling of the Special Counsel’s investigation is for Special Counsel Mueller himself to provide public testimony in the House and Senate as soon as possible. The American people deserve to hear the truth.

Mueller: “The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."

Jesus! Mueller: "Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota" were discussed between Manafort and GRU operative Kilimnik.

This is a disgrace. The American people deserve answers—and Special Counsel Robert Mueller should testify publicly before Congress. #ReleaseTheFullReport

There it is. Schumer and pelosi call for mueller to testify publicly.

@maddow @RepJerryNadler Explosive! Barr's staff secretly disclosed Mueller's findings to the WH & helped them prepare a deceptive campaign for the release of Barr's redacted Mueller report. The Corrupt Intent: Foment hostility against legitimate congressional investigations. Read nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/…

BREAKING: The Mueller report is LIVE. The document is 448 pages. You can read it here: justice.gov/storage/report… STORY: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

This entire section of the Mueller report directly contradicts what Barr said this morning about Congress not having the authority to determine whether Trump obstructed justice: "Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the president."

President Trump called the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, at home and ordered him to fire Robert Mueller. McGahn refused. nyti.ms/2ZlzEMI

#BREAKING: Attorney General Barr has released a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report summarizing his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read it here: n.pr/2DlwcZn

Yup: Mueller decided Don Jr was too stupid to conspire. Told ya.

MUELLER LEAVES OBSTRUCTION Q TO CONGRESS: “The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”

Mueller: After telling McGahn to get the special counsel fired, Trump told McGahn to deny reports that he had done so. McGahn also told Mueller that Trump scolded him for taking notes, saying, "Lawyers don't take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes."

Mueller report confirms Russia got into the voter file in Illinois and extracted data. Says Russia also targeted private companies that help run elections, FBI believes gained access to network of at least one Florida county govt. (pp. 50-51)

@nycsouthpaw Reading these together, Mueller is effectively saying "we concluded the President intentionally obstructed justice, but, because we can't indict him, we also can't say that explicitly in this report, and so we instead urge Congress to impeach him for it."

@maddow @RepJerryNadler Secretly disclose Mueller's findings to the WH to help prepare a deceptive campaign for the release of Barr's redacted Mueller report. Why? Foment public hostility against congressional investigations. He may have engaged in an effort to obstruct congressional proceedings.

Again, READ. This is not AG Barr today. This is Bill Barr last summer - June 2018 - making clear that he does not believe in Mueller’s obstruction investigation. Today’s press conference simply affirms what Barr already made clear was his view even before seeing the evidence.

See our statement regarding the public release of the Mueller Report #mapoli

PETER SMITH was contacted by Michael Flynn to find the deleted Clinton emails, at Trump's request, per Mueller.

This section of Mueller report reviews former White House counsel's testimony on moving to resign because president was telling him to “do crazy s***" and "he did not want to participate in events that he described as akin to the Saturday Night Massacre." nbcnews.to/2Guq8Qc

Trump tried to fire Mueller and obstruct justice - and that's an impeachable offense. It's clear as day. Send a list of Trump's impeachable offenses to your members of Congress here: bit.ly/2roqU7H #MuellerReport

Page 288: Press Sec. Sanders told the press after Comey's firing that the White House heard from "countless" FBI agents who said they had lost confidence in Comey. "Sanders acknowledged to investigators that her comments were not founded on anything," the Mueller report states.

This is exactly why we need to hear directly from Special Counsel Mueller and receive the full, unredacted report with the underlying evidence.

Read the full report from special counsel Robert Mueller's team. abcn.ws/2XovjXf

143/ We always knew Trump aides and allies amplified Russian propaganda, but Mueller confirms it in writing with just a few examples:

While we don't know the whole scope of influence from the IRA's Facebook work, Mueller Report estimates they were able to organize multiple rallies IRL. That's huge. A foreign power was able to physically mobilize hundreds of American citizens at a time via Facebook.

In his conclusion to Volume I (coordination), Mueller says that the Trump campaign was "in some instances" receptive to Russian offers to coordinate. That's something Barr left out of his letter, which mentioned the offers but not the campaign's receptiveness.

We ████ the whole Mueller report. What does it ████ like? More than a third of it is ████████. latimes.com/projects/la-na…

Schiff calls on Mueller to testify before the House Intelligence Committee.

Sen. Ed Markey says Mueller report “paints a picture of deeply disturbing conduct of the president that warrants Congressional action.” Points out Mueller did not clear Trump of obstruction. @WBUR

Trump asked White House Counsel Don McGahn to lie to the American people about Trump's attempts to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. This, alone, is an impeachable offense. #MuellerReport viewfromll2.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/muelle…

Key lines right here on page 1. Mueller includes that a president can be charged after leaving office and that he didn’t not want to interfere with Congress.

"We believe the only way to begin restoring public trust in the handling of the Special Counsel’s investigation is for Special Counsel Mueller himself to provide public testimony in the House and Senate as soon as possible," says @SpeakerPelosi and @SenSchumer in statement.

Pelosi, Schumer Call For Special Counsel Mueller to Provide Public Testimony In House And Senate speaker.gov/newsroom/41819/

And there it is: 1. Confirmation that Barr has been briefing the White House on the contents of the Mueller report while withholding it from the public 2. Confirmation that the delay was necessary so Trump’s lawyers could strategize and prepare the rebuttal

Meanwhile, the less redacted Mueller report will clearly be shown to some members of Congress only in a SCIF - indicating its seriousness for national security matters and ongoing prosecutions

Barnes & Noble has modernized their online presence with clever tactics. They are jumping on the trends, taking ...pre-orders of the free upcoming Mueller Report :)

Special Counsel Robert Mueller last testified in public at House hearing in June 2013 as FBI Director on FBI operations and NSA surveillance programs before House Judiciary Committee, now chaired by Rep. Nadler (D-NY). c-span.org/video/?313323-…

JUST IN: Attorney says Michael Cohen can "fill in the bulk" of Mueller report redactions hill.cm/BOB1qig

Don't be conned again, America. Opinion | Trump and Giuliani prep for the release of the Mueller report washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

#MuellerReport #TrumpColluded Mueller Day

Dem House committee chairs demand Barr cancel press conference on Mueller report hill.cm/KIVE4eN

How am I just now learning that Robert Mueller and John Kerry played on the same prep school hockey team

Live on WBZ-TV and streaming: Attorney General Barr holds news conference before releasing redacted version of Mueller report boston.cbslocal.com/live/cbsn/

This is a sham! Why the hell is Attorney General William Barr telling us about the Mueller Report that he still hasn’t released to anyone? We can read it ourselves. We don’t need his pro-Trump CliffsNotes. This insults our intelligence.

SUBPOENA MUELLER NOW ITS A COVER UP #ObstructionOfJustice #BarrCoverUp #ImpeachTrump #ObstructionOfJustice

Two versions of the redacted Mueller report will be released, with one going to the public and one that will eventually go to a limited number of members of Congress with fewer redactions, the Justice Dept. said cnn.it/2XnJZWC

@JimSwiftDC Mueller_Report_ExecSummary.pdf

@JakeSherman .#SubpoenaMueller NOW while he's still a "Government attorney." Under FRCrimP Rule 6(e)(3)(D) Mueller "may disclose any grand-jury matter involving foreign intelligence, counterintel...or foreign intel..information” to Congress' intelligence committees. law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/r…

Mueller is going to testify.

Robert Mueller examined 10 instances of potential obstruction of justice, according to AG William Barr, but says that he & Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did not find the evidence to be sufficient to establish Pres. Trump Trump obstructed justice cbsn.ws/2PeGMWy

NEW: Speaker Nancy Pelosi responds to AG Barr: “AG Barr has confirmed the staggering partisan effort by the Trump Admin to spin public’s view of the Mueller Report – complete with acknowledgment that the Trump team received a sneak preview.” abcn.ws/2XrlQP7

I'm finna bust this out when I read the Mueller report later #MuellerReport #TrumpColluded

Title page of the Mueller report. abcn.ws/2GtTqhN

After a 15-month FOI battle with DFAT, a senior foreign official wrote to the Australian Information Commissioner saying the government was now willing to confirm the meeting because the Mueller investigation had finished. buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/…

Mueller specifically says in the conclusion, “We are unable to reach that judgement (that the president did not obstruct justice). Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” #MuellerReport #7News

Mueller Report states that Don Jr knew the Trump Tower meeting with Kremlin linked associates was to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton

Mueller report concludes the Trump Tower meeting was awfully collusion-y in intent: "The Campaign anticipated receiving information from Russia that could assist candidate Trump's electoral prospects, but the Russian lawyer's presentation did not provide such information."

➡️THE MUELLER REPORT #MuellersReport #MuellerReportFindsNoCollusion 👇👇👇👇 justice.gov/storage/report… #TrumpColluded #Witchunt IS OVER 👉NO COLLUSION 👈 @POTUS @GenFlynn #QAnon #MuellerThursday #MuellerReport #Rosenstein Barr Rod Rosenstein #Barr

@IngrahamAngle Why did Barr take the unusual step of repeatedly characterizing the Mueller Report BEFORE anyone (except the White House) had a chance to read it? Why didn’t Mueller appear alongside him? This AG has thrown norms out the window to please Swampy Don

BREAKING: Donald Trump Jr completely exonerated over Trump Tower Meeting by Special Counsel Mueller

From page 4 of the Obstruction section (page 216 of the PDF): Trump's response to Mueller's appointment: telling advisers it was "the end of his presidency" and demanding Jeff Sessions resign for allowing it to happen. justice.gov/storage/report…

Once Mueller was appointed to investigate obstruction of justice, Trump moved into a "second phase" of attacks, including "efforts in bot public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation." (Page 7 of the obstruction section, page 2019 of the PDF)

Mueller's conclusion

MUELLER: Donald Trump repeatedly asked Michael Flynn to get Clinton's missing emails. The Peter Smith effort to get Clinton's emails was requested by Flynn.

Mueller conclusion on President Trump and Obstruction of Justice

Whoa! Mueller report sides with Comey's account of the demand for "loyalty" dinner, saying there's "substantial evidence" that his account was correct, and that Trump's denials were lies:

.@GOPChairwoman on the release of the full Mueller report ⬇️

Mueller: Don Jr.'s draft statement about the Tower meeting was more honest, but then, after his dad got involved to "direct" the response, it became a dishonest assertion that the meeting was about adoption; Trump Jr. then added a word, "primarily," to soften his dad's claim.

Remember Michael Flynn, Trump's ex-national security adviser? The #MuellerReport states that when Flynn began cooperating with Mueller’s team, Trump’s personal lawyer contacted Flynn’s lawyers asking for a "heads up" if Flynn knew “information that implicates the president.”

Fav for Robert Mueller RT for Mark Rothko

Mueller report says investigation could not conclude that Trump obstructed justice but that Congress still has the ability to do so. Follow live updates: cnn.it/2DoQ7Xb

Now that Mueller confirmed Russia interfered in our election, what does this photo mean to you? #TrumpColluded

Barr in his press conference: "The White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel's investigation" Redacted Mueller report: "After more than a year of discussion, the President declined to be interviewed... He did not [] agree to provide written answers on obstruction..."

Mueller: Trump administration showed interest in Wikileaks emails!! Anon notable!! @realDonaldTrump

This is an impeachment referral. Mueller is saying that it wasn't up to him to make a prosecutorial decision and is following Jaworski's example in Watergate. This is not for the AG to decide it is for Congress.

Want to read the full Mueller report? Now you can: cbsn.ws/2vcHyu6

Mueller describes previously unknown effort by President Trump to get former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to curtail investigation cnn.it/2ZgVh0V

NEW: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer call for special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before both the Senate and the House. "The American people deserve to hear the truth," they said in a joint statement. abcn.ws/2ZjM0Ff

🔥Mueller "identified numerous links between the #Russian🇷🇺gov't & the Trump Campaign...the #Russian🇷🇺gov't perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency & worked to secure that...and the Campaign expected it would BENEFIT ELECTORALLY from info stolen/released (by #Russia)."

Trump ordered McGahn to deny Trump tried to fire Mueller. McGahn wouldn’t.

MUELLER (p. 370): "The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."

125/ Bookmark the *hell* out of this statement by Mueller (pg. 10), as given all the different ways that Mueller was stymied, and his statement that he simply couldn't establish certain things *beyond a reasonable doubt*, this paragraph should be stapled on the doors of Congress:

Mueller: Manafort told Gates that Trump's personal lawyer told him that "we'll be taken care of," though the lawyer didn't specifically use the word pardon, and that it'd therefore be stupid to plead guilty.

Looks like Mueller was not satisfied with Carter Page's claim that not much happened during his trip to Moscow in July 2016.

The Senate Judiciary Cmte has received the redacted Mueller Report:

Mueller's team didn't conclude that the president did not obstruct justice. it concluded that they couldn't clear him of obstruction charges. That's bad. Vey bad

Contrary to Barr's "summary" this makes clear that Mueller's team took into account - and made their determinations - based on the fact that a sitting president cannot be indicted

Hey, @DonaldJTrumpJr refused to talk to Mueller's investigators.

Unlike Barr, Mueller says Congress has the right to review the evidence on obstruction.

True Justice is back due to law and order!! The truth is finally getting told. The swamp just keeps draining more and MORE!! Even Bob Mueller can’t save the MUCK anymore!! 🙏🇺🇸⚖️⚖️⚖️🇺🇸🙏

#MuellerReport says @realDonaldTrump had been agitated at the #SpecialCounsel probe from its earliest days, reacting to Mueller’s appointment by saying it was the “end of his presidency.”

👀 This statement--that efforts by Russia (apparently directed by Putin, presumably) to establish close ties w/Trump's people--only says Mueller did not establish that these contacts amounted to coordination ON ELECTION INTERFERENCE EFFORTS, not generally.

The most amazing thing is that, as a Trump/Russia skeptic from the start, even I thought they would end up nabbing at least one American, like Carter Page, for conspiring with Russia. They didn't even get Carter Page! I *overestimated* what Mueller would find:

Mueller holds press conference to confirm this is true

In the report, Mueller says President Trump's public comments can be considered as obstruction efforts because of his position of power: cnn.it/2XmU9qD

Why Barr specified no *illegal* coordination: Because, as we've noted, Mueller did find that not just "Campaign advisors" but also Trump himself "privately sought information about any further planned WikiLeaks releases." (Page 227 in PDF) justice.gov/storage/report…

Barr using “no collusion” 4x in his remarks is significant — and more evidence of him adopting Trump talking points. Mueller report specifically says it didn’t use “collusion” as a concept. So that was just Barr using words Trump likes. bit.ly/2Diy2di

The Mueller report says there is “substantial evidence” that President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director for refusing to clear his name nyti.ms/2ZlVaRG

From the Mueller report: President Trump “slumped back in his chair and said, ‘Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm f---ed.’” cnn.it/2XnkDbq

💥 Very bad for the president. Here’s why Mueller decided not to make a determination on obstruction

First Page of Mueller report says that Russian government interfered in 2016 presidential election “in sweeping and systematic fashion.” So despite the endless doubts cast by the President, this happened. Case made for my bill for backup paper ballots and post-election audits.

NEW: Russian attackers gained access to the network of at least "one Florida county government" according to Mueller report. No county government has said publicly that Russia gained access leading up to 2016.

Page 62. Lots of people are talking about this one. Mueller reveals that Trump directly asked campaign associates "to find the deleted Clinton emails." Flynn then asked several people for help, including Peter Smith (wsj.com/articles/gop-o…).

BREAKING: Mueller remembered to capitalize the F in BuzzFeed News

Trump Jr. told Veselnitskaya at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that a Trump administration could revisit the Magnitsky Act issue if and when they were in government, per Mueller.

The Mueller Report* is out, and as Barr said, there was no collusion wi- OK THEN WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS? justice.gov/storage/report…

Congress Had To Scramble To Find Old Computers Because AG Barr Sent The Mueller Report On A CD-ROM barstoolsports.com/barstoolu/cong…

132/ Mueller is leaving a *lot* of daylight for other entities (including committees in Congress) to investigate Trump-Russia and to do so while saying, quite truthfully, that the SCO did *not* conduct certain investigations. It's almost an *invitation* that Mueller gives, here:

Sarah Sanders Told Mueller Investigators She Lied to Press About James Comey’s Unpopularity Within FBI Ranks mediaite.com/a/trifq

133/ And did I say that Mueller's work wouldn't "end, but merely transform"? Yes—and I was correct. Mueller has confirmed it:

Sarah Sanders told Mueller team she lied from the WH podium. I did not see that coming. #MuellerReport

Mueller report says dozens of political rallies were surreptitiously organized by Russia's Internet Research Agency and sometimes drew hundreds of attendees. "The reach and success of these rallies was closely monitored [REDACTED]"

The Mueller report shows that huge sections are redacted related to @wikileaks for "ongoing matter" and "grand jury."

Mueller says the sponsor of the platform resolution re Russia said Trump advisor Gordon told her he was on the phone with Trump at the time Gordon requested that the resolution be weakened -- but the investigation "did not establish" that Gordon spoke to or was directed by Trump.

3) This May 2017 @nytmike story about Trump asking Comey to end the Flynn investigation. The president tweeted this was “fake news,” but Mueller again found “substantial evidence” to support Comey. nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/…

The only thing I have brain space for today is looking at the Mueller report as a conceptual art piece, so shout out to @gaufre latimes.com/projects/la-na…

Mueller: "several" people connected to the campaign made "false statements" about contacts with Russia-affiliated individuals and "took steps" to obstruct investigations, but only "some" were charged with lying and obstructing justice.

Mueller established motive for Trump to obstruct justice

Giuliani reacts to details emerging from Mueller report!! youtu.be/xOOXZMrd8Rk Anon notable!! @realDonaldTrump

The Mueller report corroborates many stories that were dismissed by Trump as “fake news” — and also identifies multiple times when Trump and his allies misled or actively lied to the press.

Mueller confirms that George Papadopoulos was investigated for being an unregistered agent not of Russia, but Israel

Pg. 39 of Mueller report references the IRA efforts to organize rallies in 2016 promoting Trump's campaign, including Oct. 2 events in Pittsburgh and Philly. A poster advertising the event features a image of a coal miner.

134/ And *this* is an absolute must-read, and underscores that we are just at the beginning of looking at collusive activities that were outside Mueller's narrowly drawn (narrowly self-drawn) scope:

4) These January 2018 @nytmike-@maggieNYT and @PostRoz-@jdawsey1 stories on Trump seeking to fire Mueller. Trump claimed it was “fake news,” but the White House counsel told Trump the articles were accurate.

It's right there on PAGE ONE. Robert Mueller wrote it crystal clear. Barr ought to be removed from office for his willful attempt to mislead the American people.

First, we look at a passage in Mueller's report on the destruction of evidence in the course of the investigation. n.pr/2DloK0h

Mueller's report suggests that Trump's desire to improve U.S.-Russia relations was potential evidence of obstruction of justice, in case you were still on the fence about whether unelected officials waged a coup attempt against the president b/c of his foreign policy views.

The Mueller report, by the pages on.wsj.com/2ZkphsM

Trump ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. McGahn planned to resign rather than carry out what he felt to be an inappropriate order. McGahn decided not to quit and not to follow Trump's order. #MuellerReport justice.gov/storage/report…

Big deal. Mueller seems to say here that @realDonaldTrump directed Roger Stone to get information from WikiLeaks about the Russian-stolen material it was posting.

The Mueller report explicitly states that the investigation did not clear President Trump nyti.ms/2XnKxMi

Same with Pdop. The Mueller Report claims Pdop made false statements. (Again, not buying this explanation. Pdop was also set up.)

Mueller found "corrupt intent" repeatedly in Donald Trump's actions toward the Russia investigation motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201… via @MotherJones

@GOP @HouseGOP @GOPLeader @GOPChairwoman @SenateGOP @senatemajldr @JohnCornyn @PressSec @WhiteHouse @FBI @realDonaldTrump @VP So @realDonaldTrump utterances in his WRITTEN answers states: I don’t recall My recollection Independent recollection ps AG BARR aka Roy Cohn 2.0 FLAT OUT LIED to US Mueller explicitly stated Congress can pursue obstruction...

In the “charging decisions” section after acknowledging key witnesses lied to investigators, Mueller concluded “the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.”

The Mueller Report, Page 290

JUST IN: Trump campaign associates "materially impaired" investigation by lying, Mueller says hill.cm/NpVJHhA

Barr totally lied about why Mueller didn't decide whether Trump obstructed. justice.gov/storage/report…

The #MuellerReport on the question of obstruction of justice:

MUELLER LEAVES OBSTRUCTION Q TO CONGRESS: “The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”

This entire section of the Mueller report directly contradicts what Barr said this morning about Congress not having the authority to determine whether Trump obstructed justice: "Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the president."

@nycsouthpaw Reading these together, Mueller is effectively saying "we concluded the President intentionally obstructed justice, but, because we can't indict him, we also can't say that explicitly in this report, and so we instead urge Congress to impeach him for it."

@maddow @RepJerryNadler Secretly disclose Mueller's findings to the WH to help prepare a deceptive campaign for the release of Barr's redacted Mueller report. Why? Foment public hostility against congressional investigations. He may have engaged in an effort to obstruct congressional proceedings.

Again, READ. This is not AG Barr today. This is Bill Barr last summer - June 2018 - making clear that he does not believe in Mueller’s obstruction investigation. Today’s press conference simply affirms what Barr already made clear was his view even before seeing the evidence.

Robert Mueller examined 10 instances of potential obstruction of justice, according to AG William Barr, but says that he & Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did not find the evidence to be sufficient to establish Pres. Trump Trump obstructed justice cbsn.ws/2PeGMWy

The final paragraph related to the obstruction portion of the #MuellerInvestigation :

Mueller's team didn't conclude that the president did not obstruct justice. it concluded that they couldn't clear him of obstruction charges. That's bad. Vey bad

Trump tried to fire Mueller and obstruct justice - and that's an impeachable offense. It's clear as day. Send a list of Trump's impeachable offenses to your members of Congress here: bit.ly/2roqU7H #MuellerReport

Mueller: "several" people connected to the campaign made "false statements" about contacts with Russia-affiliated individuals and "took steps" to obstruct investigations, but only "some" were charged with lying and obstructing justice.

Sen. Ed Markey says Mueller report “paints a picture of deeply disturbing conduct of the president that warrants Congressional action.” Points out Mueller did not clear Trump of obstruction. @WBUR

Mueller specifically says in the conclusion, “We are unable to reach that judgement (that the president did not obstruct justice). Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” #MuellerReport #7News

From page 4 of the Obstruction section (page 216 of the PDF): Trump's response to Mueller's appointment: telling advisers it was "the end of his presidency" and demanding Jeff Sessions resign for allowing it to happen. justice.gov/storage/report…

Once Mueller was appointed to investigate obstruction of justice, Trump moved into a "second phase" of attacks, including "efforts in bot public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation." (Page 7 of the obstruction section, page 2019 of the PDF)

NOW: @POTUS speaking at a Wounded Warriors Project event. First public comments since release of #MuellerReport saying “No collusion, no obstruction, never was, never will be.” Says this should never happen to another president again. Calls investigation a hoax. #7news

Mueller conclusion on President Trump and Obstruction of Justice

Mueller report says investigation could not conclude that Trump obstructed justice but that Congress still has the ability to do so. Follow live updates: cnn.it/2DoQ7Xb

Barr in his press conference: "The White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel's investigation" Redacted Mueller report: "After more than a year of discussion, the President declined to be interviewed... He did not [] agree to provide written answers on obstruction..."

Unlike Barr, Mueller says Congress has the right to review the evidence on obstruction.

In the report, Mueller says President Trump's public comments can be considered as obstruction efforts because of his position of power: cnn.it/2XmU9qD

"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests. " ... not because he didn't try to obstruct justice. Amazing passage >>>

💥 Very bad for the president. Here’s why Mueller decided not to make a determination on obstruction

Hey Fake, Garbage News @CNN you have been exposed as Liars, Phonies and Frauds! NO Collusion NO OBSTRUCTION It’s actually funny watching you squirm and try to insanely spin your CRAZY lies! But I guess that’s what happens when you have NO CHARACTER

Obstruction is an important charge for this reason: “Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference” pg 9 That is a major statement. #MuellerReport

Mueller established motive for Trump to obstruct justice

Mueller's report suggests that Trump's desire to improve U.S.-Russia relations was potential evidence of obstruction of justice, in case you were still on the fence about whether unelected officials waged a coup attempt against the president b/c of his foreign policy views.

@GOP @HouseGOP @GOPLeader @GOPChairwoman @SenateGOP @senatemajldr @JohnCornyn @PressSec @WhiteHouse @FBI @realDonaldTrump @VP So @realDonaldTrump utterances in his WRITTEN answers states: I don’t recall My recollection Independent recollection ps AG BARR aka Roy Cohn 2.0 FLAT OUT LIED to US Mueller explicitly stated Congress can pursue obstruction...

The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation. After a two year investigation, the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin.

#BREAKING: Attorney General Barr has released a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report summarizing his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read it here: n.pr/2DlwcZn

WATCH: Fox's Chris Wallace says Barr is acting more like "counselor for the president" than attorney general hill.cm/OLI75ez

JUST IN: Attorney says Michael Cohen can "fill in the bulk" of Mueller report redactions hill.cm/BOB1qig

Live on WBZ-TV and streaming: Attorney General Barr holds news conference before releasing redacted version of Mueller report boston.cbslocal.com/live/cbsn/

This is a sham! Why the hell is Attorney General William Barr telling us about the Mueller Report that he still hasn’t released to anyone? We can read it ourselves. We don’t need his pro-Trump CliffsNotes. This insults our intelligence.

@JakeSherman .#SubpoenaMueller NOW while he's still a "Government attorney." Under FRCrimP Rule 6(e)(3)(D) Mueller "may disclose any grand-jury matter involving foreign intelligence, counterintel...or foreign intel..information” to Congress' intelligence committees. law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/r…

Robert Mueller examined 10 instances of potential obstruction of justice, according to AG William Barr, but says that he & Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did not find the evidence to be sufficient to establish Pres. Trump Trump obstructed justice cbsn.ws/2PeGMWy

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Mueller describes previously unknown effort by President Trump to get former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to curtail investigation cnn.it/2ZgVh0V

JUST CALL HIM CONSIGLIERE BARR. He disgraced the office of Attorney General. He must resign.

This is what we mean by "no collusion"? Um...

Embedded in Barr remarks is an important qualifier: Trump campaign collusion with WikiLeaks could not be an illegal conspiracy because WL publication of the emails was not a crime since WL didn't help hack them.

This looks like an effort at collusion, too:

Although we've heard the "no collusion" conclusion, this from #MuellerReport p. 62 is damning. Mike Flynn contacted associates who were already trying to find Clinton's emails. Their plan included contacting foreign intelligence services to see if anyone had hacked HRC's server.

Mueller report concludes the Trump Tower meeting was awfully collusion-y in intent: "The Campaign anticipated receiving information from Russia that could assist candidate Trump's electoral prospects, but the Russian lawyer's presentation did not provide such information."

➡️THE MUELLER REPORT #MuellersReport #MuellerReportFindsNoCollusion 👇👇👇👇 justice.gov/storage/report… #TrumpColluded #Witchunt IS OVER 👉NO COLLUSION 👈 @POTUS @GenFlynn #QAnon #MuellerThursday #MuellerReport #Rosenstein Barr Rod Rosenstein #Barr

Trump's efforts to derail the probe were *not* just about frustration over the "collusion" storyline, as Barr said. They were *also* about scuttling a full accounting of Russian sabotage of our democracy, *separate and apart* from the collusion question: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

NOW: @POTUS speaking at a Wounded Warriors Project event. First public comments since release of #MuellerReport saying “No collusion, no obstruction, never was, never will be.” Says this should never happen to another president again. Calls investigation a hoax. #7news

No collusion?

Remember how Barr said the report found no collusion no collusion no collusion?

Trump literally received a phone call and then specifically told Rick Gates that "more releases of damaging information would be coming." Maybe not proof beyond a reasonable doubt of collusion, but certainly damning evidence of collusion! Definitely NOT EXONERATION!

Former FBI agent @AshaRangappa_ says she has seen a "linguistic sleight of hand" take place over the last two years with regard to "collusion."

@realDonaldTrump Even after no Collusion was found after this fraud of an investigation, this is going to be the media for the next 2 years 😂 #GameOver

Barr using “no collusion” 4x in his remarks is significant — and more evidence of him adopting Trump talking points. Mueller report specifically says it didn’t use “collusion” as a concept. So that was just Barr using words Trump likes. bit.ly/2Diy2di

This is evidence of campaign collusion. #ManafortColluded #TrumpColluded #TrumpIsIllegitimate

REAL COLLUSION! If the left is gonna blame #Russia for paying Facebook to run Ads which turned out to be against BOTH Killary and @realDonaldTrump to interfere in our elections, shouldn’t we also blame the #MSM? Here’s the kicker..SHE STILL LOST! 😂 #Bribery #MAGA #KAG #TWGRP

The Mueller Report* is out, and as Barr said, there was no collusion wi- OK THEN WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS? justice.gov/storage/report…

And yet an enormous deal has been made of this platform episode, always cited in the litany supposedly demonstrating collusion

Hey Fake, Garbage News @CNN you have been exposed as Liars, Phonies and Frauds! NO Collusion NO OBSTRUCTION It’s actually funny watching you squirm and try to insanely spin your CRAZY lies! But I guess that’s what happens when you have NO CHARACTER

Just a harmless meeting between a campaign chair and a Russian intelligence asset to discuss campaign strategy and Russia’s aspiration to take over part of a foreign country.

#BREAKING: Attorney General Barr has released a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report summarizing his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read it here: n.pr/2DlwcZn

This sure looks like the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was colluding. He continued to provide internal polling data to a Russian national tied to Russian intelligence:

Sessions meets with the Russian ambassador in September 2016--while Russia is attacking the US election—and he says...nothing about the attack.

143/ We always knew Trump aides and allies amplified Russian propaganda, but Mueller confirms it in writing with just a few examples:

In his conclusion to Volume I (coordination), Mueller says that the Trump campaign was "in some instances" receptive to Russian offers to coordinate. That's something Barr left out of his letter, which mentioned the offers but not the campaign's receptiveness.

Here's the sentence that Barr sliced in half in his letter. The Trump campaign calculated it would benefit from the Russian attack--even though it claimed that there was no attack.

@zengreen This is outright false: Trump's campaign manager pled guilty to two conspiracies involving a Russian suspected of ties to GRU, both through 2016 and starting in 2018.

@zengreen Special Counsel's investigation found that Trump encouraged Russians, leading immediately to further hacking attempts.

Mueller report concludes the Trump Tower meeting was awfully collusion-y in intent: "The Campaign anticipated receiving information from Russia that could assist candidate Trump's electoral prospects, but the Russian lawyer's presentation did not provide such information."

Trump's efforts to derail the probe were *not* just about frustration over the "collusion" storyline, as Barr said. They were *also* about scuttling a full accounting of Russian sabotage of our democracy, *separate and apart* from the collusion question: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

This footnote is quite a blockbuster - the Trump camp appeared to believe that the Russians had "tapes" of Trump in Moscow

First Page of Mueller report says that Russian government interfered in 2016 presidential election “in sweeping and systematic fashion.” So despite the endless doubts cast by the President, this happened. Case made for my bill for backup paper ballots and post-election audits.

NEW: Russian attackers gained access to the network of at least "one Florida county government" according to Mueller report. No county government has said publicly that Russia gained access leading up to 2016.

I know no one cares about Part I (about the Russian campaign), but: "The IRA also... recruited individuals to perform political acts (such as walking around New York City dressed up as Santa Claus with a Trump mask)"

Russian state actors were coordinating with the Trump campaign to help the campaign with rallies, but the Trump campaign didn't realize that they were working with Russian state actors.

Obstruction is an important charge for this reason: “Those lies materially impaired the investigation of Russian election interference” pg 9 That is a major statement. #MuellerReport

Big deal. Mueller seems to say here that @realDonaldTrump directed Roger Stone to get information from WikiLeaks about the Russian-stolen material it was posting.

Important. Hope Hicks wanted to disclose that Russians had offered Don Jr. information helpful to the campaign. But the President nixed that, explicitly ordering Hicks to issue a statement that falsified the true purpose of the Trump Tower meeting:

It is clear Congress and the American people must hear from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in person to better understand his findings. We are now requesting Mueller to appear before @HouseJudiciary as soon as possible.

The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation. After a two year investigation, the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin.

We believe the only way to begin restoring public trust in the handling of the Special Counsel’s investigation is for Special Counsel Mueller himself to provide public testimony in the House and Senate as soon as possible. The American people deserve to hear the truth.

This is a disgrace. The American people deserve answers—and Special Counsel Robert Mueller should testify publicly before Congress. #ReleaseTheFullReport

President Trump called the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, at home and ordered him to fire Robert Mueller. McGahn refused. nyti.ms/2ZlzEMI

#BREAKING: Attorney General Barr has released a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report summarizing his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Read it here: n.pr/2DlwcZn

Mueller: After telling McGahn to get the special counsel fired, Trump told McGahn to deny reports that he had done so. McGahn also told Mueller that Trump scolded him for taking notes, saying, "Lawyers don't take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes."

This section of Mueller report reviews former White House counsel's testimony on moving to resign because president was telling him to “do crazy s***" and "he did not want to participate in events that he described as akin to the Saturday Night Massacre." nbcnews.to/2Guq8Qc