On June 14, 2017, the media reported that the Special Counsel's Office was investigating
whether the President had obstructed justice. Press reports called this "a major turning point" in
the investigation: while Corney had told the President he was not under investigation, following
Corney's firing, the President now was under investigation. The President reacted to this news
with a series of tweets criticizing the Department of Justice and the Special Counsel's
investigation. On June 17, 2017, the President called McGahn at home and directed him to call
the Acting Attorney General and say that the Special Counsel had conflicts of interest and must be
removed. McGahn did not carry out the direction, however, deciding that he would resign rather
than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre.
Actions of a guilty man. Trump was railing against everyone. It is not possible to have everyone as a conspirator of the Deep State. There men have dignity, status, esteem among peers and all of a sudden Trump is right and they are wrong. There is no Deep State, there is only fear mongering.
Efforts to curtail the Special Counsel's investigation.
Efforts to curtail the Special Counsel's investigation.
That is the title to this section of the Executive Summary. It is unlawful to do this. This is the title the Special Counsel decided best described the INFORMATION below.
Two days after directing McGahn
to have the Special Counsel removed, the President made another attempt to affect the course of
the Russia investigation. On June 19, 2017, the President met one-on-one in the Oval Office with
his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a trusted advisor outside the government, and
dictated a message for Lewandowski to deliver to Sessions.
Excuse me? Corey Lewandowski was Trump's stenographer to deliver a message to Jeff Session. Sessions. The man that was on his cabinet. Trump is a coward. He enlists others to do his bidding. Amazing. And they do it. What is it with Trump that people engage in such behavior. Lewandowski should have told Trump to make a phone call.
The message said that Sessions should
publicly announce that, notwithstanding his recusal from the Russia investigation, the investigation
was "very unfair" to the President, the President had done nothing wrong, and Sessions planned to
meet with the Special Counsel and "let [him] move forward with investigating election meddling
for future elections."
Ah, let's have a pity party for Donald. We can have Lewandowski jump out of the cake and report it on FOX News.
Lewandowski said he understood what the President wanted Sessions to do.
One month later, in another private meeting with Lewandowski on July 19, 2017, the
President asked about the status of his message for Sessions to limit the Special Counsel
investigation to future election interference. Lewandowski told the President that the message
would be delivered soon.
One month later, the message is not delivered and Lewandowski has the nerve to say so, BUT, it will be delivered soon. It must have come by camel via Saudi Arabia. Camels can't swim across oceans, so I am sure the message never made it.
Hours after that meeting, the President publicly criticized Sessions in an
interview with the New York Times, and then issued a series of tweets making it clear that
Sessions's job was in jeopardy. Lewandowski did not want to deliver the President's message
personally, so he asked senior White House official Rick Dearborn to deliver it to Sessions.
Dearborn was uncomfortable with the task and did not follow through.
So, Trump lost his temper over Lewendowski's inability or unwillingness to carry out his ORDER, he turned to the New York Times in an interview to deliver the message to Session. This is all passive - aggressive stuff. The firing of Comey was via Twitter. The message is delivered via newspaper. Trump is not a leader, he is a scared man. Trump is an absent president. There is no leadership.
What is it with these guys that they can't stand up to a man that has no backbone to begin with?
People need to tell Trump, "No." Just that simple, including the newspapers and unfriend from his Twitter feed. This is ridiculous. Newspapers allow themselves to be used in this way? This is not high level negotiations of a peace treaty. Stop it. The press has the right to report on their president. There should be daily briefings and regular interviews AND press conferences IN THE USA, not just abroad.
Try these headlines, "There is nothing to report about the country from the federal government because they are censoring the press."
"There was a press briefing from the Joint Chiefs" and they reported that...
"There was a press briefing from the State Department" and they report that...
It would be so refreshing to have news from real FUNCTIONAL people that have the facts about the USA's interaction with the world.
Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence.
Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence. This is unlawful.
In the summer of 2017, the President
learned that media outlets were asking questions about the June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower
between senior campaign officials, including Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian lawyer who was
said to be offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton as "part of Russia and its
government's support for Mr. Trump." On several occasions, the President directed aides not to
publicly disclose the emails setting up the June 9 meeting,...
Trump successfully enlisted others in his crimes of cover up, hence, obstruction. How does this man do this? How does he successfully enlist others into his unlawfulness? This is incredible. He must be some kind of web builder to beat any spider in nature, because, none of this makes sense. Everyone involved with Trump should have a lawyer. Maybe that way this will stop and people will see what they were doing and why it is so very, very wrong. I honestly don't believe there are that many gullible people that work with him. They must consciously decide, "Trump is right and I will do this because he won't abandon me." Really? I think Manafort is expecting the same thing, while he suffers behind bars.
...suggesting that the emails would not
leak and that the number of lawyers with access to them should be limited. Before the emails
became public, the President edited a press statement for Trump Jr. by deleting a line that
acknowledged that the meeting was with "an individual who [Trump Jr.] was told might have
information helpful to the campaign" and instead said only that the meeting was about adoptions
of Russian children. When the press asked questions about the President's involvement in Trump
Jr.' s statement, the President's personal lawyer repeatedly denied the President had played any
role.
Lies. Manufactured and premeditated lies.
Further efforts to have the Attorney General take control of the investigation. In early
summer 2017, the President called Sessions at home (Amazing, he finally picked up a phone to call someone and actually speak in person) and again asked him to reverse his recusal
from the Russia investigation. Sessions did not reverse his recusal. In October 2017, the President
met privately with Sessions in the Oval Office (He wasn't getting what he wanted. So, he was going to try a different approach to take attention off him and place it somewhere political points could be garnered. We already know the name Hillary Clinton among right wing voters is a motivator. But, Sessions is not a political employee, he was the Attorney General at the time.) and asked him to "take [a] look" at investigating
Clinton. In December 2017, shortly after Flynn pleaded guilty pursuant to a cooperation
agreement, the President met with Sessions in the Oval Office and suggested, according to notes
taken by a senior advisor, that if Sessions unrecused and took back supervision of the Russia
investigation, he would be a "hero." The President told Sessions, "I'm not going to do anything
or direct you to do anything. I just want to be treated fairly." Bill Barr is falling for the part where Poor, poor president only wants to be treated fairly. So, it requires fraud. At least the poor, poor billionaire will have some restful sleep. In response, Sessions volunteered
that he had never seen anything " improper" on the campaign and told the President there was a
"whole new leadership team" in place. He did not unrecuse. Go, Jeff Sessions. No one took example from the then Attorney General who's resignation was not accepted for some time after it was written? No one else had the guts to tell Trump, "No?"
Now I am going to lecture.
FOX News managed to enter into a propaganda campaign to minimize the report's findings and make it go away. How could anyone let this happen? It is unethical and unscrupulous. Neither of those characteristics are part of professional journalism. Where was everyone else demanding more to be done and more actions regarding the fraud of Bill Barr? That should be relentless headlines in the face of censorship.
Tomorrow's headlines across this country should read,
"The White House is Censoring the News Media"
I have never been more serious. It would begin to clear up the propaganda and the one sided reporting that is only FOX News. When Barr was in Guatemala where was ALL the press? I only saw Bill Hammer. What the heck is wrong with media these days? There is no risk in this. A headline caused by blatant anti-American directives would result in astonishment by the people of the USA, but, they would pause and that pause would be enough to begin the doubt that is needed to counter the FOX propaganda.
I have to say this?
Writing books isn't going to do it. The American people need to be rudely awakened to the fact this president is not interested in the Rule of Law or justice of any kind. They need to understand they have a problem and that problem is Donald J. Trump. He is conspiring with others to maintain the propaganda and destroy this democracy. Worse of all he panders to Russia for his own purposes AT THE COST of this democracy. Their votes were toyed with for the purpose of placing a malleable president in the White House so Putin had control, not the American people. Worse than that Trump isn't interested in THAT TRUTH. He wants to assist Russia in destroying this democracy. When does the media get to that part?
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