FLASH ! … From the ‘ If Pigs Had Wings ‘ Committee …

By Daniel Hemel

Daniel Hemel is an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago.

March 26

It took special counsel Robert S. Mueller III nearly two years to conclude that President Trump may have — but may not have — obstructed justice. It took Attorney General William P. Barr and his deputy , Rod J. Rosenstein , only two days to decide that Trump should not be charged with obstruction. How did Barr and Rosenstein make up their minds so quickly on a question that the special counsel struggled with for so long ?…

By reading the summary ( Albeit NOT sufficiently orgnised by Mueller , s asked ! ) and understanding the Special Investigator’s ‘ non-decision ‘and consequent referral to Barr’s discretion …

Barr sent a letter to Congress on Sunday that offers little explanation for the decision not to prosecute the president. The letter correctly states the elements of obstruction of justice — corrupt intent , obstructive conduct and a sufficient nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding — and then states that Mueller’s report “ identifies no actions that , in our judgment ” satisfy all three criteria … The letter says nothing more about the last two elements of obstruction , but it does offer this about corrupt intent :

“ While not determinative , the absence of … evidence [ of collusion ] bears upon the President’s intent with respect to obstruction.”

I’ll bring up the argument that reinforces that statement further along …

That conclusion is questionable for reasons beyond its haste. It’s black letter law that a defendant can satisfy the corrupt intent criterion for obstruction even if the defendant himself committed no underlying crime. For example , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit recently ruled that a defendant could be convicted of obstruction “ even if his primary motivation was to extricate the sister of his childhood friend from a troubled situation.”

A court in Utah held in 2013 that a defendant could be liable for obstruction where his only apparent motive was to protect a friend from a criminal charge.

By these standards , it’s easy to see what possible motives Trump may have had to obstruct justice , even if no collusion with Russia was involved.

The writer now indulges us with his demonstration of the wonderful ‘ imagination ‘ he possesses …

He ‘ may have ‘ wanted , for example , to shield Michael T. Flynn , his first national security adviser , from criminal liability. In February 2017 , the president told FBI Director James B. Comey that Flynn “ is a good guy ” according to Comey … And Trump implored Comey to drop the FBI’s investigation of Flynn. Flynn later pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Trump fired Comey in May 2017.

Funny how Comey managed to disregard a far greater amount of PROVEN evidence in order to not indict Von Pantsuit and Danny boy here can’t understand why Trump’s sticking up for a distinguished military figure whom he felt got tripped up by the over zealous investigators …

Or perhaps the president suspected — correctly — that the investigation of his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen would churn up evidence that Trump paid adult-film actress Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged sexual encounter the two had just months after Trump’s wife , Melania , gave birth to Trump’s youngest child , Barron. Trump may have feared the political fallout from revelations that he lied to the American people about his business dealings with Russia , and then instructed his eldest son , Donald Trump Jr. , to lie about conversations with Russian representatives during the 2016 presidential campaign.

As stated in previous posts , the Cohen inctment has never had anything to do with the election , nor the dreampt up ‘ conspiracy ‘ with Russia … And the lone connection with Russia of any sort was discovered though means of acquired by falsified information to obtain a bogus FISA court ruling …

That’s TWO people’s careers ruined by the quest of the Left to ‘ delegitimize ‘ a duly elected individual to the office of President simply because they despise the man … He ponders on …

Or maybe Trump simply wanted to cover up the fact that the Russian government intervened on his behalf during the race — even if that intervention occurred independently of Trump’s campaign. Trump has only begrudgingly acknowledged that the intelligence community agrees that Russia wanted him to win; ever sensitive about his loss to Democrat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote, perhaps he worried that evidence of Russian meddling would cast further doubt on the legitimacy of his presidency.

One possibility is that Mueller’s report contains additional evidence and possibly encouraged Cohen …

Danny boy’s entire article , titled ” Barr Is Wrong ” , no less ! , is nothing more than a collection of ” What ifs ” …” or perhaps ” …” Or maybe’s ” …

William Barr doesn’t need to proofread 448 pages of documentation to understand fully that you can’t indict , never mind convict ! , an individual on ” may have or may not have’s ” …

There’s even a glimmer of a hope for wee minded Danny here where he actually points out …

” Of course , the fact that Trump would have had many motives to obstruct justice doesn’t mean that he actually did so “…

That is the MAIN point , as well as the ONLY point found in his article …

Any this guy’s a ‘ lawyer ‘…

Source: Barr is wrong: Obstruction of justice doesn’t require another underlying crime – The Washington Post

Moron amazes us with stunning display of sentence structure !!! …

As I was clicking to this story , I KNEW what type of individual was involved …

SEPTEMBER 7–A Minnesota man is facing several criminal charges after admitting that he rearranged the letters on a sign board outside an Arby’s restaurant to spell out an offensive message.

According to police , Usindini Christopher Colling-Harper , 19 , said that he was waiting for a bus when he decided to alter the sign outside the eatery in Brooklyn Center , a Minneapolis suburb.

Colling-Harper , who told cops he was “ bored ” at the time, gathered letters from both sides of the sign board to create the message “ NOW HIRING NIGGERS AND WHORES ”…

Cops investigating the defacement turned to Facebook, where the image was first posted by Colling-Harper’s girlfriend. The woman identified Colling-Harper as the perpetrator, adding that he thought the racist message was “ funny ” …

And , again … I didn’t even need to see this picture know what type of a person I would be lookin’ at …

In a series of Facebook updates, Colling-Harper ( pictured ) has posted photos of the defaced sign and replied to a friend’s question about what the Arby’s sign read prior to his handiwork.

“ Idk it some like now hiring managers and sum else ” he wrote … ( He can write ?! ) … “ I got letters from the other side of the sign ”…

How’s that education system workin’ out for ya folks ?1 …

 

Source: Moron , 19 , Charged…

Ya gotta chuckle …

Just to slip a break in from the overflowing political nonsense … Here’s Woodster !!! …

Libturd Meme Dump Day

Source: Woodsterman

Jerry ‘ All In ‘ Nadler ladies and gentlemen …

 

Jerrold ‘ somewhat less rotund in his old age ‘  Nadler , the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee , said in a statement on Monday :

” Congress must see the full report and underlying evidence to determine how to best move forward with oversight , legislation , and other constitutional responsibilities.”

” The Attorney General’s failure to comply with our subpoena , after extensive accommodation efforts , leaves us no choice but to initiate contempt proceedings.”

A contempt vote alone may serve merely as a symbolic rebuke of the attorney general.

For Mr Barr to actually face criminal charges , the entire House – including Republicans – would first have to approve it.

Such a move against an attorney general is not unprecedented, however …

Now this where the Democrap’s hypocricy reaches mind boggling heights …

Eric Holder , who served under President Barack Obama , was held in contempt by the then-Republican-controlled House for a botched attempt to track illegal guns.

Mr Holder became the first sitting attorney general held in contempt of Congress after he failed to hand over files related to the operation.

But as expected, the justice department did not pursue charges against Mr Holder …

Combine that with their lack of concern over Comey ‘ exonerating ‘ Von Pantsuit of any criminal behaviour of mishandling classified material and and one can only avoid a severe migraine by havin’ a good chuckle over it …

Source: BBC News

Democrats fear Attorney General William Barr … You can smell it …

With well-choreographed leaks and hyped headlines , the Democrats and their allies in the media want to create a feud between special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr. The goal: Suggest that the attorney general acted inappropriately and obscured the real conclusions of the the special counsel’s report. But after hours of stagecraft and stump speeches in the form of questions from both sides of the aisle , two real questions remain : Is there any daylight between the attorney general and the special counsel ? And is the basis for the hearing , as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham , R-S.C. , told reporters , now “ over ” ?…

‘ Course , one of the closin’ in on two dozen Presidential wannabees ,Sen. Kamala D. Harris , D-Calif. , offered a different view , tweeting, “ What I just saw from the Attorney General is unacceptable … ( Becuase we didn’t get to hear what we so desperately need to hear !!! ) …  Barr must resign now “…

Does anyone think her tweet wasn’t written before the hearing even began ? Anyway , based on their interventions , the Democrats saw Wednesday’s encounter with Barr as their chance to poke holes carry on with more of their bullshit in over the Justice Department’s conclusions about the Mueller report.

For his part , Barr kept his cool and tried to stay out of the political fray , mostly answering questions with a simple yes or no. When there was an actual legal question , he expanded on his reasoning. He was by far the most adult character in the room.

Make no mistake : What happened on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee was not a hearing … It was two separate show trials in the same room. The drama setting the stage for today’s hearing was the leak of Mueller’s March 27 letter to Barr. That letter’s most critical line suggested Barr’s conclusions on the report “ did not fully capture the context , nature , and substance of [ the special counsel’s ] work and conclusions ” and went on to urge that Barr release more information …

Well , two weeks later , Barr did just that by releasing the full report , minus redactions. No one could reasonably expect Barr’s original four-page letter to capture the full essence of a two-year investigation that cost tens of millions of dollars and dominated news cycles since mid-2017.

Barr explained his understanding that Mueller was frustrated with how the media reacted to his March 24 letter to Congress , and he also referenced a phone conversation the two had after Barr received Mueller’s March 27 letter. That , in a nutshell , is the answer to Wednesday morning’s headlines. The rest was recycled Washington swamp talk of the kind that those who aren’t political junkies have learned to tune out  …

I can tell ya , belonging to ‘ Political Junkie ‘ club … We’re lovin’ this shit !!! …

The three Democratic presidential candidates on the committee did their best not to appear wild-eyed , rehearsed or pandering – but each fell short. …

Sen. Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn. , began by saying she was “ gonna take us out of the weeds ”, then proceeded to take us even further into the weeds after instructing Barr which legislation he should support ( hers ) …

Sen. Cory Booker , D-N.J. , said he wanted to “ take a step back ” – immediately after his colleague Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii , viciously maligned Barr , calling him a liar and demanding that he step down – and made airy remarks about this “ sobering moment in American history ” And predictably , Harris played prosecutor and spent her questioning trying to indict Barr as being somehow too conflicted to do his job … ( Again , simply because she didn’t hear the result turn out to be what all Democraps have a daily wet dream of hearing !!! ) …

Meanwhile , almost all Republicans drew attention to the sketchy beginnings of the Russia investigation – the discredited Steele dossier , a couple freelancing FBI agents and a relentless campaign to feed the media with innuendo and conspiracy theories …

The truth is out there , and Barr is threatening to reveal it …

As Sen. Charles Grassley , R-Iowa , put it to reporters during the break , “ everybody was sold a bunch of snake oil , and now , the jig is up “…

The media may need to think again about their ‘ immunity ‘ from prosecution …

As the weeks have gone by , there seems to be some very interesting ‘ movement ‘ on this whole ‘ collusion / conspiracy ‘ quagmire goin’ on down south … Things are going to get real interesting very quickly it appears ! … I discuss this with a few people , but they just don’t take into account the huge volume of information you have to digest and sort out … The ones that work are too busy , understandably so … But the others , retired , or with time on their hands have very strong opinions , yet very little substance to their point of view … Which is why that viewpoint is flawed … Difficult to get thru to them that way !!! …

I however have always loved this ‘ sport of politics ‘ , and the one advantage of my current dilemma is that I do indeed have the time to follow this very closely … 

In the same vein as the current Canadian political , government threatening  , controversy , the SNC-Lavalin mess … The fallout from the Mueller report will be taking up much of the near future postings in my southern neighbour’s ‘ Appall-I-Tics ‘ category …

This is a perfect entry for the newly created ‘ The Thot Plickens ‘ …

( I’m sure you can work the play on words out there folks ! )…

It is beyond dispute that officials in the Obama administration , and others , can be prosecuted for crimes committed in carrying out the conspiracy to take down President Trump. Indeed , to borrow from the ” climate change  ” gang , there is a consensus — 99% of serious past and former prosecutors agree on that point.

What has drawn no attention whatsoever is the question of whether members of the media , who either knowingly or unwittingly assisted Deep State types to perpetrate the Russiagate witch hunt hoax , can hide behind the First Amendment to protect themselves from prosecution for involvement in the conspiracy. Under an apparently little understood legal doctrine , recognized in existing precedent by the Supreme Court , the media are not in the clear.

There is ensconced in well established case authority what is typically known as the ” state actor ” doctrine. In cases brought primarily under federal civil rights law , private — i.e. non-governmental — parties , including members of the media , have been held to be , in essence , extensions of the state — i.e. , agents of the state officials who carried out civil rights violations — and thus subject to suit in their own right , as so-called state actors ( Berger v. Hanlon 188 F.3d 1155 [ 9th Cir. 1999 ] , on remand from Hanlon v. Berger 119 S. Ct. 1706 [1999 ] ). It should be remembered that those civil rights statutes include provisions making certain civil rights violations crimes.

And , indeed , although there are instances in which state officials involved in such violations have been held to be immune from suit for their violations , again , under longstanding legal precedent , the Supreme Court ruled in Richardson v. McKnight ( 521 U.S. 399 [ 1997 ] ) that ” state actors ” as private parties may not take advantage of the immunity of the officials whose violations they helped advance. Interestingly , in the foregoing decision , the vote was 5-4 to deny ” state actors ” immunity.  The five voting against were the five liberals then sitting on the Court.

Now , if that doesn’t send a ” tingle up the leg ” of some media types out there who helped advance the Russiagate plot — as extensions of the state officials involved — then they’re not paying attention to what may be headed their way.

I got a kick outta the way the writer closed it out usin’ the term ‘ tingle up the leg ‘ ! … Nice touch indeed …

But let that swirl around in the old noggin for a little while … The  MEDIA may actually face consequences … Hmmmm … Velly Intelesting …

Source: If media think they are in the clear on the Russia hoax, they need to think again

I love this one from Stilton’s Place !!! …

We believe that those on the Left are about to get one heck of a wake-up call courtesy of Attorney General Barr , and the soon-to-be-released report detailing DOJ Inspector Michael Horowitz’s investigation of the unethical and illegal tactics used to spy on , and frame , Donald Trump. Legally speaking , we could be looking at a tsunami which will sweep away the biggest political players on the Left.

But the mainstream media is doing very little to cushion the coming blow for their gullible audience members. As a case in point, we were stopped dead in our tracks upon encountering this headline from the Associated Press : ” Fines, jail time ? Trump team resists oversight , Dems dig in.”

Okay , first things first – the Trump team isn’t resisting oversight , it’s resisting overthrow. But back to the ludicrous article which is a not-so-funhouse mirror version of what’s really going on …

WASHINGTON , AP – They’re talking at the Capitol about jailing people. Imposing steep fines. All sorts of extraordinary , if long-shot measures to force the White House to comply with Democratic lawmakers’ request for information about President Donald Trump stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation.

” When the president denies the Congress documents and access to key witnesses , basically what they’re doing is saying , Congress you don’t count ” according to Rep. Elijah Cummings. ” We simply cannot have a presidency that is run as if it were a king or a dictator in charge.”

The article then details the draconian measures Democrats are planning to further obstruct justice by filing contempt of Congress motions against Barr , and threatening to lock Trump staffers up in a super-secret ” Capitol Prison “, despite repeated denials from the House and Senate that such a spiderweb-filled , subterranean dungeon actually exists. Because that’s the level of insanity currently in play.

And so we come back to the red pill and the blue pill that those on the Left will soon have to choose from. They may find the red one hard to swallow … But it’s going to be a lot easier on them than the alternative.

Source: Stilton’s Place

I also caution against getting TOO carried away … We haven’t quite got there yet … It’s still a long established machination … Trump and his true allies are doing quite well … But …

What a complete bonehead !!! …

The Washington Post is discounting America’s win in World War Two because American forces were all “ racists ”.

I guess that we now have to delete America’s part in World War Two from the history books to suit liberal sensibilities just like we are erasing statues to military people all across the nation.

The nonsensical attack on the Allied Forces in WWII came in an idiotic liberal article with the unwieldy title of “ Allied leaders were anti-Nazi , but not anti-racist … We’re now paying the price for their failure ”…

The article by a foaming-at-the-mouth lib named John Broich — who claims to be a teacher at Case Western Reserve University — noted that the Allied Forces were responsible for attacking Nazism , but added that the Allies were really “ just like ” the Nazis.

“ Because while Allied countries opposed the Nazis and Allied troops defeated them , the leaders of the United States and Britain rarely attacked the core tenet of Nazism: the belief in a master race ” this ahistorical “ teacher ” wrote.

Broich added :

In my World War II class recently , I had my students pore through the speeches and letters of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the years around the war’s start in 1939, searching for his basis for opposing the Nazis. They found Churchill wanted to stand up to the Nazis’ expansionism , fight their anti-democracy posture and resist what he called ( but largely left undefined ) their anti-Christianity. What he did not do, however , was call for the destruction of the essence of Nazism: race supremacy.

Basically , Broich says that despite defeating the Third Reich — the evilest regime in human history — that tremendous moral success doesn’t matter because the Allies were all still racists.

Because the world wasn’t as “ woke ” in 1945 as it is now , the great victory over Hitler is meaningless.

This is the moral vacancy of liberalism.

If you can’t see that the defeat of Nazism isn’t a good thing for mankind merely because the world also had some few failings over 60 years ago , then you really are an immoral person. This was truly the greatest generation that saved the world.

Sadly , morality and truth are not liberal values.

Where do these people come from ?! … And why the Hell do we let them ‘ teach ‘ our future generations ?!!! …

Source: Washington Post: U.S. WWII Heroes Were Evil Because They Were ‘Racists’ – The Lid

Memo to Buffett :You’re 88 buddy !!! … Retire already !!! …

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s annual shareholder meeting often features questions about the challenges and strategies of whoever succeeds Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffett. This year , investors got to see the likely candidates in action.

When confronted on a question about succession , Buffett pointed out that deputies Greg Abel and Ajit Jain were there and available to take questions. The pair ended up fielding multiple queries on energy investments and insurance.

Buffett , 88 , and vice chairman Charlie Munger , 95, still grabbed the vast majority of the speaking time during the more than five hours of question and answers , and both gave no sense of wanting to step back from their roles in the sprawling conglomerate they’ve built. But the appearances offered shareholders a bit more familiarity with two executives that took direct oversight of the company’s primary operating units last year.

“ The truth is Charlie and I are afraid of looking bad, those guys are better than we are ” Buffett told shareholders. “ They know the businesses better , they work harder by far , and you are absolutely invited to ask questions to be directed over to them at this meeting. ”

For crissakes Warren !!! … RETIRE !!! … Enjoy your twilight years !!! … No point in gettin’ buried in a platinum and gold shrine with a pisspot full of dough stashed in there with ya !!! …

You’ve got about 90 BILLION bucks !!! … Ya ‘ won ‘ the game decades ago … It’s long past the time to pop the bubbly !!! …

Check out his ‘ beach house !!! … This is just ONE of his houses of course !!! …

Source: Berkshire meeting offers glimpse of post-Buffett leadership  | Financial Post

The Lefties and GOPers just don’t ‘ get ‘ Trump …

Seems we live in a country where people can’t take a joke … President Trump keeps finding that out , which is that wisecracking is now a lost art and a no-go zone.

If you don’t know New York … If you don’t know Catskills shpritzing … If you know Yiddish deadpan … If you don’t know Lenny Bruce … You don’t know Donald Trump.

He’s a New Yorker , for crissakes ! , where when we say , go out there and hurt them , we mean get them so they will beg for mercy from laughing so hard.

Without humor , we are zombies. Do Liberals ever laugh , smile , lighten up ? Zero , if you watched them at the Senate hearings where they kept trying to pester Attorney General William Barr through four hours of root canal. You watched. You saw. Such grumpy faces , no signs of humanity , as likewise they were for Kavanaugh through Inquisition-style life or death nitpicking. Get it wrong and you get the gallows.

That is not Trump’s world.

Trump is a funny guy , if only they would give him the chance , which they won’t , their loss , and our loss. These years could have been fun. Instead , we are a nation in the dumps , thanks to their gloomy politics , there is darkness in every room , as it was for the White House Correspondents Dinner , a flop for being so joyless , without Trump to liven it up. Have we become Germans ? Germany has never been a funny country , as Robin Williams reminded them for “ killing all the funny people ”.

For his MAGA people , Trump is Trump … But for the rest , he’s had to curb his light side.

He learned his lesson from that time when he made that joke about Kim Jong Un , North Korea’s strongman and leader for life.

Yes , leader for life , and so Trump , with a smile , picked up on that , and cracked – “ Wish I had it so good ”…

That was a JOKE !

The humorless Left missed it by a mile , accused him of trying to usurp the Constitution , and demanded that he be impeached.

Lighten up , people . Politics is long , but life is short.

Source: Trump’s homage to Lenny Bruce – Israel National News