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mia

(8,361 posts)
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 10:01 AM Jul 2019

Mueller didn't fail. The country did.

Being thousands of miles away from home, in a country that 45 years ago was in the grasp of a brutal dictatorship, gives me an interesting perspective on former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Wednesday testimony and on the now nearly forgotten — was it only a week ago? — racist call for four nonwhite congresswomen to “go back” to where they came from.

I worry that we — the media, voters, Congress — are dangerously unserious when it comes to preservation of our democracy. To spend hours of airtime and write hundreds of print and online reports pontificating about the “optics” of Mueller’s performance — when he confirmed that President Trump accepted help from a hostile foreign power and lied about it, that he lied when he claimed exoneration, that he was not completely truthful in written answers, that he could be prosecuted after leaving office and that he misled Americans by calling the investigation a hoax — tells me that we have become untrustworthy guardians of democracy.

The “failure” is not of a prosecutor who found the facts but might be ill equipped to make the political case, but instead, of a country that won’t read his report and a media obsessed with scoring contests rather than focusing on the damning facts at issue.

Many well-meaning figures continue to beat the drums of impeachment rather than demand that Trump be voted out of office for betraying his country and lying to voters to conceal his crew’s unpatriotic sellout to Russian actors....


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/25/mueller-didnt-fail-country-did/?utm_term=.32e02f8add4d

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Mueller didn't fail. The country did. (Original Post) mia Jul 2019 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Firestorm49 Jul 2019 #1
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I do not want Trump voted our of office, as i do not want him given the chance to run. I want c-rational Jul 2019 #3

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c-rational

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3. I do not want Trump voted our of office, as i do not want him given the chance to run. I want
Thu Jul 25, 2019, 10:33 AM
Jul 2019

him impeached and imprisoned. Also, I find the failure to be first with the corporate media.

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