Friday, May 10, 2019

Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape

Victor Davis Hanson
There will be no indictments of Trump for either collusion or the obstruction of justice during the investigation of that non-crime. So now what?



"Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr’s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump–Russia collusion narrative.
"Barr recently released a brief summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusions that Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians to warp the 2016 election. Barr added that Mueller had not found enough evidence to recommend that Trump be indicted for obstruction of justice for the non-crime of collusion.
"Progressives, who for 22 months had insisted that Trump was a Russian asset, were stunned. But only for a few hours.
"Almost immediately, they redirected their fury toward Barr’s summation of the Mueller report. Yet few rational people contested Barr’s synopses about collusion and obstruction.
"Both the Mueller report and Barr’s summation can be found on the Internet. Anyone can read them to see whether Barr misrepresented Mueller’s conclusions.
"Again, there have been few criticisms that Barr was wrong on his interpretation that there was no collusion and not enough evidence to indict on obstruction of justice." . . .

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