The Mueller Report thread

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(04-22-2020, 09:06 AM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah, though the second article tries to achieve its goal by leaving factual correctness aside along the line. As for the first sentence, Mueller did not find *sufficient* evidence, not exactly *no* evidence. I know, I know. Petty. But still.


Sure this committee's findings don't seem to matter much to anyone. The same committe did determine that Russia actually targeted election systems in all 50 states. Ever since I saw that I wonder how not every second thread's topic here is "OMG OMG!!!! Russia targets our election systems everyhere! God help us!"

Actually, I don't think that is "petty" at all.

Add to "no evidence" other statements like the claim that a Democratic "theory" that Trump was a "Russian secret agent" had been debunked. I cannot recall anyone who claimed Trump could be anything more than an unwitting tool. There is still plenty of evidence for that, though easily covered by Presidential prerogative. It's as if the Federalist article were specifically targeting confirmation bias. Ignored here was that the Mueller investigation was primarily triggered by the multiple contacts between Russians and Trumpsters and the ongoing Trumpster lying about those contacts. That's not all "debunked" and ok now. 

It's the collective force of all such petty changes that, for the properly receptive audience, enables them to continue believing there was a complete exoneration of wrongdoing in an investigation whose real rationale was simply to take down the voters choice--something these bipartisan reports manifestly do not establish.