REMEMBERING TRUMPS DISGRACE: ARTICLES AND POSTS FROM HIS IMPEACHMENT. BREAKING DOWN THE MUELLER REPORT: DISHONESTY AND CORRUPTION CAN BE FOUND ANYWHERE.

Sometimes it is amazing to see the degree of desperation that is used to RESCUE OR BAILOUT PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS FROM THE "REALITY" OF A GIVEN SITUATION. It could be creating "FACTS" or "TRUTHS" that can easily be refuted, or ignoring information that contradicts a desired or pre-determined conclusion. 

If you have visited this site on a regular basis, my articles and posts on DONALD TRUMP MAKE CLEAR THAT HE IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF SAYING OR DOING JUST ABOUT ANYTHING TO IGNORE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS, BOTH IN AND OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. In addition, at least in Donald Trumps case, It is beneficial to have Allies who are willing to ignore Logic, Reason, or Duty in order to protect him from the Legal Consequences of his actions. 

What do I mean? Well, the current controversy regarding the MUELLER REPORT is a perfect example. 

When we discuss the Findings and Conclusions in the Special Counsels Report, it is necessary to set up Universal Guidelines that are applicable to all parts, and are not left to the Whims and Prejudices of whoever happens to be the Media Darling of the day, able to blurt out entertaining one-liners that are of little value, unless undermining the strength of our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC is your goal. 


Make sure all Terms are properly defined, especially when it comes to possible allegations of criminal activity or actions that interfered with the LEGAL OPERATION OF THE 2016 ELECTION. There is no way to properly assess conclusions, if one, both, or all sides are playing "SEMANTIC" Games. 

THE SOURCE AND THE QUALITY OF EVIDENCE, EITHER PROVIDED TO, OR UNCOVERED BY, the Office of the Special Counsels Investigation, must be assessed properly and openly. NO INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, CAN BE ALLOWED TO PASS JUDGMENT AND FORM PUBLIC POLICY FROM SUCH JUDGMENTS,WITHOUT PROPER JUSTIFICATION. 
(AND NO...TAKING THE PRESIDENTS OR THE ATTORNEY GENERALS WORD IS NOT PROPER JUSTIFICATION.)

IT'S TIME FOR CONGRESS TO REMEMBER WHERE ITS CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES LIE: ANY AND ALL  COMMITTEES OR AGENCIES, RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING AND SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC INTEREST, MUST MAKE A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION. FURTHER, THIS PROCESS MUST BE FREE OF INTERFERENCE FROM ANY OFFICIAL(S), ELECTED OR APPOINTED.

ALL OFFICIALS; FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL AND ALL RELEVANT INDIVIDUALS OR AGENCIES MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR DECISIONS MADE. NO POLITICAL OFFICE HAS A CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED "GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD," WHERE ANY ACTIONS THEY TAKE ARE BEYOND SCRUTINY OR OVERSIGHT. This seems to be Donald Trumps and William Barrs way of thinking, but I don't buy into it, and hopefully neither will the majority of Americans. 

TO BE CONTINUED...

YOU MEAN THERE IS A LINE THAT SOME PROMINENT GOP POLITICIANS WON'T CROSS, WHEN IT COMES TO DONALD TRUMP?

Trump's QAnon embrace draws GOP backlash

By Ben Kesslen

NBC NEWS.

President Donald Trump’s embrace of QAnon is drawing backlash from some prominent Republicans, who say his comments Wednesday on the group that believes he is saving the world from a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals have "no place" in the party.

Trump declined Wednesday to disavow the QAnon movement, saying that the followers of the extreme conspiracy theory are “people who love our country."

QAnon, once thought of as fringe, has emerged in recent months as a sort of centralized hub for utterly false conspiracy and alternative health communities, researchers and experts say.

The group, linked to several violent, criminal incidents, including a train hijacking, kidnappings, a police chase and a murder, sees Trump as their hero in a secret war against pedophiles. When asked about this part of the theory specifically by an NBC News reporter, Trump said, "Is that supposed to be a bad thing?"

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and primary opponent of the president in 2016, tweeted his displeasure with Trump's remarks on the group, whose conspiracy theories the FBI said in 2019 "very likely motivate some domestic extremists."

“Why in the world would the President not kick Q’anon supporters’ butts? Nut jobs, rascists, haters have no place in either Party,* he wrote, misspelling "racists."

*NUT JOBS, RASCISTS, HATERS- HOW IS THIS NOT A DESCRIPTION OF THE AVERAGE DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER.- David.

Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska told NBC News in a statement, "Q-Anon is nuts — and real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories. Republicans should consider the possible electoral consequences of Trump’s comments, he said.

On a Fox News panel, GOP strategist and former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said Trump “ought to disavow” QAnon, which he called “a group of nuts and kooks.”

“They may like him, but they like him because they think he is fighting an incredible war against forces of ‘pedographic’ evil, and it’s just ridiculous,” Rove said, referring to the group's pedophilia conspiracy theory. “Disavow them, get done with it.”

On Thursday, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican in the House and the highest ranking GOP woman in Washington, added her name to the growing chorus of critics.

“QAnon is dangerous lunacy that should have no place in American politics,” Cheney said in a statement.

Trump's embrace comes as the Republican Party has become further entangled with the group.

Before running for office, Georgia Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote dozens of articles published on a now-defunct website that were favorable to the QAnon conspiracy theory, NBC News has found. In the posts, Greene also suggested Hillary Clinton murdered her political enemies and ruminated on whether mass shootings were orchestrated to dismantle the Second Amendment.

WHAT IS RULE #1? What Donald Trump has Done or Said, or will Do or Say, MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AS LONG AS HE TOES THE EXTREMIST LINE. (Updated).

WHAT IS RULE #1? 

Progressives who continue to think that Donald Trumps Lack of:
-  Maturity.
-  Ability.
-  Integrity.
-  Emotional Stability.
etc...
and Highlighting These Traits to the American Public, are making a Crucial, and possibly Fatal Error, when it comes to preventing any/or all of his Agenda of Hate from becoming part of our legal system. WHY? BECAUSE its misunderstanding the Source of his support, and the extent to which these Individuals and Groups will go to bring about changes in our system of government, with the goal of undermining the very fabric of our Constitutional Republic. To them, ANYTHING THAT ADVANCES THEIR AGENDA IS PERMISSABLE. They may attempt to disguise these tactics by presenting them as "PATRIOTIC," OR "FAITH" BASED NECESSITIES TO "PRESERVE" AND "PROTECT" THE "AMERICAN" WAY OF LIFE, but those terms are just a smokescreen, hiding "THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS" Mentality.

Unfortunately, this appears to be the new "GAME PLAN" OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING, IGNORE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OR CREATE BOGUS ACCUSATIONS, AND COUNT ON THE TIMIDITY OF THE OPPOSITION TO DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. 

HOWEVER, SOMETIMES IT IS A NECESSITY TO HAVE A FOREIGN POWER HELP ASSURE A VICTORY BY ALTERING

VOTER COUNTS IN KEY STATES, AND MAKING SURE YOU APPOINT OFFICIALS WHO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT BROUGHT THEM TO POWER, AND ARE WILLING TO IGNORE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. (SEE ARTICLES ON THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND LEARN HOW TRUMP, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND RUSSIA CONSPIRED TO HAND THE WHITE HOUSE TO A CORRUPT DEMAGOGUE.)

"THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS."


IN THE END, IT IS A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING THAT MAKES THEM SO DANGEROUS.

WHY?

Hard Core Trump Supporters go far beyond the Traditional Elements of the Republican Party Platform. To them, Hate, Prejudice, Xenophobia, Racism, and Religious Zealotry are perfectly valid and justifiable reasons to form Public Policy and Law.

That brings us to Rule #1- What Donald Trump has Done or Said, or will Do or Say, MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AS LONG AS HE TOES THE EXTREMIST LINE.
(Updated).

WHAT IS RULE #2? TO BE CONTINUED...

REMEMBERING TRUMPS DISGRACE: ARTICLES AND POSTS FROM HIS IMPEACHMENT. BREAKING DOWN THE MUELLER REPORT: FOR ANSWERS, LOOK IN THE RIGHT PLACES.

(Any words that are colored RED represent portions
of the Transcript that were BLACKED OUT, 
AND COULD NOT BE READ. WORDS LIKE
"INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE" ARE NOT
MY CREATION, BUT WERE PLACED OVER
BLACKED OUT AREAS)


As you go through the MUELLER REPORT, there is one very important detail that must be acknowledged: IT IS THE STORY OF TWO INVESTIGATIONS. Why do I say this? BECAUSE CONCLUSIONS DRAWN WERE NOT ARRIVED AT BY THE SAME PROCESS, WITH JUST ONE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OR INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLE FOR EVALUATING EACH EVENT, AND THE VALUE OF THE CORRESPONDING EVIDENCE.

WHAT DO I MEAN? CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS, TAKEN 
DIRECTLY FROM THE TEXT. (IN ITALICS)

The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. 

As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel's investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations.

First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 

RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN. 
(HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE BODY OF THE TEXT.)

Internet Research Agency (IRA) carried out the earliest Russian interference operations identified by the investigation. A social media campaign designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States.

- The IRA was based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received funding from Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin and companies he controlled. Prigozhin is widely reported to have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. HARM TO ONGOING MATTER.

- The campaign evolved from a generalized program designed in 2014 and 2015 to undermine the U.S. electoral system, to a targeted operation that by early 2016 favored candidate Trump and disparaged candidate Clinton. 

- The IRA later used social media accounts and interest groups to sow discord in the U.S. political system through what it termed "information warfare." 

 The IRA' s operation also included the purchase of political advertisements on social media in the names of U.S. persons and entities, as well as the staging of political rallies inside the United States. To organize those rallies, IRA employees posed as U.S. grassroots entities and persons and made contact with Trump supporters and Trump Campaign officials in the United States. 
-


Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released the stolen documents. 

RUSSIAN HACKING OPERATIONS. 
(HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE BODY OF THE TEXT.)

At the same time that the IRA operation began to focus ·on supporting candidate Trump in early 2016, the Russian government employed a second form of interference: cyber intrusions (hacking) and releases of hacked materials damaging to the Clinton Campaign. The Russian intelligence service known as the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army (GRU) carried out these operations. In March 2016, the GRU began hacking the email accounts of Clinton Campaign. 


In March 2016, the GRU began hacking the email accounts of Clinton Campaign volunteers and employees....the GRU hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The GRU stole hundreds of thousands of documents from the compromised email accounts and networks. Around the time that the DNC announced in mid-June 2016 the Russian government's role in hacking its network, the GRU began disseminating stolen materials through the fictitious online personas "DCLeaks" and "Guccifer 2.0." The GRU later released additional materials through the organization WikiLeaks. 

The presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump ("Trump Campaign" or "Campaign") showed interest in WikiLeaks' s releases of documents and welcomed their Potential to damage candidate Clinton. Beginning in June 2016, HARM TO ONGOING MATTER forecast to senior Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton. WikiLeaks' s first release came in July 2016. 



Now, the Investigation into the above 2 categories provided enough evidence to the committee that
made them confident in drawing definite conclusions, and in some cases, filing Criminal Charges. I will cover these in more depth at a later time, but there is one more category to cover. What you read below may seem to be a part of the RUSSIAN HACKING OPERATION...

...BUT THERE IS ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE.


EXCERPTS FROM THE BODY OF THE TEXT.

In addition to targeting individuals involved in the Clinton Campaign, GRU officers also targeted individuals and entities involved in the administration of the elections. Victims included U.S. state and local entities, such as state boards of elections (SBOEs), secretaries of state, and county governments, as well as individuals who worked for those entities. 186 The GRU also targeted private technology firms responsible for manufacturing and administering election-related software and hardware, such as voter registration software and electronic polling stations.187 The GRU continued to target these victims through the elections in November 2016. While the investigation identified evidence that the GRU targeted these individuals and entities, the Office did not investigate further. The Office did not, for instance, obtain or examine servers or other relevant items belonging to these victims. The Office understands that the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the states have separately investigated that activity. 

By at least the summer of 2016, GRU officers sought access to state and local computer networks by exploiting known software vulnerabilities on websites of state and local governmental entities. GRU officers, for example, targeted state and local databases of registered voters using a technique known as "SQL injection," by which malicious code was sent to the state or local website in order to run commands (such as exfiltrating the database contents). 188 In one instance in approximately June 2016, the GRU compromised the computer network of the Illinois State Board of Elections by exploiting a vulnerability in the SBOE's website. The GRU then gained access to a database containing information on millions of registered Illinois voters, 189 and extracted data related to thousands of U.S. voters before the malicious activity was identified.

GRU officers INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE scanned state and local websites for vunerabilities. For example, over a two day period in july 2016, GRU OFFICERS INVESTIGATVE TECHNIQUE
for vulnerabilities on websites of two dozen states. INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE.

Unit 74455 also sent spearphishing emails to public officials involved in election
administration and personnel at companies involved in voting technology. In August 2016, GRU officers targeted employees of **** ,a voting technology company that developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls, and installed malware on the company network. Similarly, in November 2016, the GRU sent spearphishing emails to over 120 email accounts used by Florida county officials responsible for administering the 2016 U.S. election. 191 The spearphishing emails contained an attached Word document coded with malicious software (commonly referred to as a Trojan) that permitted the GRU to access the infected computer.192 The FBI was separately responsible for this investigation. We understand the FBI believes that this operation enabled the GRU to gain access to the network of at least one Florida county government. The Office did not independently verify that belief and, as explained above, did not undertake the investigative steps that would have been necessary to do so.



The Hacking operations that included the following:

- Individuals and entities involved in the administration of the elections.

- U.S. state and local entities, such as state boards of elections (SBOEs), secretaries of state, and county governments, as well 
as individuals who worked for those entities.

- Private technology firms responsible for manufacturing and administering election-related software and hardware, such 
as voter registration software and electronic polling stations.

- Employees of **** , a voting technology company that developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls, and installed malware on the company network. 

- Florida county officials responsible for administering the 2016 U.S. election...


WERE NOT EVALUATED, IN TERMS OF THE QUALITY OF THE EVIDENCE, BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL.


FROM THE TEXT:
While the investigation identified evidence that the GRU targeted these individuals and entities, the Office did not investigate further. The Office did not, for instance, obtain or examine servers or other relevant items belonging to these victims. The Office understands that the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the states have separately investigated that activity. 


The Office did not independently verify that belief and, as explained above, did not undertake the investigative steps that would have been necessary to do so.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WHILE THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL IDENTIFIED EVIDENCE THAT THE GRU"TARGETED THESE INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES", NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION WAS DONE.

WHY?

"The Office understands that the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the states have separately investigated that activity."

"The Office did not independently verify that belief and, as explained above, did not undertake the investigative steps that would have been necessary to do so."

Well this answers the question: "Who is exonerated by the Mueller Report?"
ANSWER: NO ONE. The Evaluation of the
most important information regarding fraud in 
the 2016 election was not part of their 
responsibility. They couldn't exonerate anyone
even if they wanted to. 

TO BE CONTINUED...