‘I Feel Compelled To Respond’: Robert Mueller Hits Back After Stone Commutation
By Robert S. Mueller III, as originally published by The Washington Post
The work of the special counsel’s office – its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions – should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he comm
Another whose words must be said, as the others who have felt compelled to comment on their time near this administration. Sad,very sad.
Does it feel like we have lost our way to such a extent that hypocrisy shoved right in our collective faces has taken the rule of law that defines us away. Anyone who is “normal” should see how truly fu*ked up every system we cherish that is manipulated and cheated so that we (as in most of us) are left stunned by the shear depth of our loss. This republican and democratic incompetence will and has killed many who didn’t have to die. Trump is a true expression of all that is dishonest about where we are as a country. The timing of his appearance is truly unfortunate. We could use a lot of self examination about now.
The only remedy that remains is a decisive electoral change in November 2020. The current president and the current leadership in the Senate have no interest in ensuring the rule of law. This is a demonstrable fact. While there is plenty of room to criticize Democrats as well, it is clear that the immediate need is to remove Republicans from power. Mitt Romney appears to be the only prominent Republican who is willing to stand up for principles at this point.
Well said!
There are many prominent Republicans out of office who are vocally castigating their own party.
Whether they can sway Republican electorate is another matter. However if they significantly sway Independents that may be enough at this time.
A start to that self-examination has been undertaken. However, tearing down our history and scrapping some statues is not the answer. What is needed is to stand up and embrace our history. From the first permanent settlement in 1620 until today, that’s 400 years, Americans, using any excuse they could come up with, have profited from the work of millions of kidnapped slaves and committed genocide on millions of indigenous people whose land and property we craved and didn’t wish to pay for. This week even the SCOTUS said, enough is enough and declared that half of OK is still actually “Indian” land. The people involved there have actually been robbed three times, first in Fla, then in OK and finally when they were denied the billions of trust funds the government has held from them for decades after we stole their resources. Settlers have lived here continuously for 400 years but women have only been permitted to vote for a quarter of that time. Authorities claiming certain rights have practiced forced sterilization of women and persons of color for more than a century. Even after the slaves were freed American terror organizations such as the KKK have threatened and murdered free citizens, and do so even today. American has notably created much economic wealth for some, is a rich country, blah, blah. But at what cost in human lives and misery? America may be better that Saudi Arabia as an ethical bastion for human rights, but to complain about China’s treatment of their citizens, while justified, still represents utter hypocrisy coming from us. America has in the past and continues today to extract a steep human toll to accumulate the wealth it has amassed. It’s time to really become the place we claim to be. What we are doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
With Trump having a 96% approval within the GOP, it seems clear that the party is now the party of Trump. Those in the GOP who oppose him are a tiny, inconsequential group, who aside from Mitt R, are mostly found on cable news bashing him, and have no power within the party. If Trump is dumped and there is a Blue Wave it will be interesting to see what emerges from the ashes. For an outside observer, at least in terms of entertainment value, re-electing Trump would be fun to watch, at least from a perspective of how a post-election America would process that given what would have transpired in the 4 months ahead of the election to make that happen. In short, what set of facts would cause the country to move away from DEMs to the GOP? It is not so much a skepticism about the Blue Wave as much as wanting to see what would happen if DEMs were frustrated again and had to live with Trump for another 4 years.
Vlad is Mad – indeed. What a shocking message he writes. Oh the “entertainment” he looks forward to having! Does he have any idea how perilous is the current state of affairs in the USA already? To make such a shallow response is unworthy of this otherwise almost always serious and thoughtful site. Shame on Vlad.
Trump’s presidency campaign was such a farse. It is amazing (I do not live in the US nor am I from there) that the citizenry believed that an “outsider” could “solve all the problems”. It is baffling how citizens elected a person who had never managed public funds before, let alone hold any form of public office or even remotely work within a public officer’s mandate. The chaos that unfolded in the first year, with the massive staff turnover, was enough to any observer to realize what a disaster it is to elect an ‘outsider’ with 0 public office experience. Managing a government requires experience in government! And so, obviously, without any experience whatsoever, this person would break all the rules and laws, since, of course, they do not know them