WHAT DO WE KNOW?

 

In a recent televised town hall meeting Senator Elizabeth Warren excellently summarized the Mueller Report (highlights are mine)–

“Part one, a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 elections for the purpose of getting Donald Trump elected. 

Part two, then-candidate Donald Trump welcomed that help.

And part three, when the federal government tried to investigate part one and part two, Donald Trump as president delayed, deflected, moved, fired, and did everything he could to obstruct justice.”

It is clear that Russia wanted Trump in the White House, and worked long and hard in a "sweeping and systematic fashion”.  Why?  Putin is smart.  He recognized the obvious fact that Trump is the ultimate textbook narcissist and, as such, could be, and has been, easily played.  We do not know if Putin was aware of Trump’s admiration for and envy of dictators and authoritative leaders, like Putin himself, but that certainly would benefit, and has benefited, Russia.

Trump did NOT win the 2016 Presidential Election.  He lost by about 3 Million votes.  He was put in the White House by the Electoral College and NOT the American people.  If Russia had not interfered so actively and aggressively in the election Trump would have lost by a greater margin and very likely would not be in the White House today. 

Ironically, one of the main reasons for the creation of the Electoral College was to keep a dangerous and unqualified demagogue like Trump from being elected.  The College was created to ensure, as Alexander Hamilton put it, “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”  HISTORY CENTRAL explains that the founding fathers “feared a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power”. 

Trump has once again lied – to nobody’s surprise.  He repeated his claim that the Mueller Report found “no collusion” and “no obstruction” and “totally exonerated” him.  Mueller clearly testified under oath that the investigation did NOT find, and the report did NOT state, that there was no collusion and no obstruction and that it did NOT totally exonerate Trump.

In answering a direct question Mueller stated under oath “The president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed".  Exculpate is defined as “show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing”.

It is obvious that Trump and his 2016 Presidential Campaign did indeed “collude” with Russia and Trump aggressively acted to terminate, delay, belittle, and obstruct Mueller’s Russia investigation.

No President in our history has been more guilty of a multitude of offences – legally, ethically and morally - than Trump.

TRUMP MUST GO!