NY Times: Trump And Republicans Pounce In Post-Mueller Washington!

March 26, 2019 – 7:26 am

Interestingly, many in the media had Democrats pouncing yesterday, which is usually only a Republican thing. And the NY Times did have a very funny headline

But, back to Republicans pouncing/seizing

Trump and Republicans Seek to Turn the Tables in Post-Mueller Washington

President Trump and his Republican allies went on the offensive on Monday, vowing to pursue and even punish those responsible for the Russia investigation now that the special counsel has wrapped up without implicating him or his campaign in a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election.

Mr. Trump, grim faced and simmering with anger, denounced adversaries who have pounded him for two years over Russian election interference, calling them “treasonous” people who are guilty of “evil” deeds and should be investigated themselves. “Those people will certainly be looked at,” he said.

On Capitol Hill, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced he would do just that while also calling for a new special counsel to look at the origins of the last one. White House officials and Republican lawmakers demanded the resignation of a Democratic committee chairman investigating the Russia matter (that would be Adam Schiff), and Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign lobbied television networks to blackball Democrats who advanced the collusion theory.

And why shouldn’t they? This whole thing was based on a manufactured document from sore losers upset that 2016 didn’t go they way they wanted. From the minute Hillary lost Democrats have been manufacturing ways to get rid of Trump, the Constitutionally elected President. Schiff and so many other Democrats have stated there is evidence ad nauseum, but have yet to show it, and the Mueller investigation stated there wasn’t any. So, let’s see all the documents and FISA warrants which enabled the federal government the ability to investigate a presidential candidate. Let’s see the email and other document trails. Let’s see where this leads.

The approach, if it lasts, contrasts with those of other presidents who survived major scandals. After the Iran-contra affair, President Ronald Reagan happily dropped the subject and focused on arms control talks with the Soviet Union and other issues. After being acquitted at his Senate impeachment trial, President Bill Clinton was just as eager to move on to Social Security and other initiatives.

But Mr. Trump and his allies on Monday sought to put his adversaries on the defensive and cement the view that Mr. Mueller’s report represents complete vindication. Mr. Mueller found no conspiracy between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia, but he pointedly declined to exonerate the president on obstruction of justice, according to a Justice Department letter to lawmakers on Sunday.

Yeah, but, let’s face it, Iran-Contra did contravene the law, and Bill Clinton did actually commit crimes. Trump and his campaign didn’t commit crimes, nor conspire with Russia. And I don’t see the NY Times telling the Democrats to just stop, to quite while their behind, to stop being sore losers.

Mr. Schiff, for his part, said he “would not be intimidated” by the Republicans and stood by his comments about public evidence of collusion. He did concede that after reading Mr. Mueller’s full report he would probably need to reorient the Intelligence Committee’s inquiry into possible foreign influence over the president.

“We have a constitutional obligation to make sure that the president and the people are not compromised by a foreign power, and that’s what we intend to do,” he said.

Those are the last two paragraphs of the article (which is dangerously close to an opinion piece): where was the notion of Democrats just moving on and trying to heal the national divides?

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