What a spectacle. House Republicans embarrassed themselves Wednesday at former special counsel Robert Mueller’s hearings.
"No collusion. No obstruction". Comrade Trump has chanted those words for months now, insisting that is the prime finding of the now completed Russia investigation. He’s bellowed them in speeches, he’s shouted them at reporters, and he’s tweeted them.
But make no mistake, Trump’s claim is not true. It is a lie.
During the hearing Mueller emphasized Comrade Trump was NOT exonerated of obstruction of justice. He also said that a president can be charged with obstruction after leaving office.
Despite the "witch hunt" rhetoric, the Mueller report did find that Trump's team had lots of contact with Russia.
If you take one thing away from the extraordinary congressional testimony of Robert Mueller, the man whose team wrote the report, it should be that simple truth: Trump Has Not Been Exonerated.
To the contrary, Mueller’s report found that Team Trump had a lot of contact with Russians who wanted Comrade Trump to win the 2016 election. The report showed that Trump’s insiders, while never entering an actual conspiracy to promote Russian efforts to help, nonetheless welcomed them.
And when the investigation was launched, President Trump repeatedly discouraged cooperation and refused to be interviewed, even as people with ties to his team misled and lied to the special counsel. These are facts.
So why wasn’t Trump charged with obstruction of justice when almost any other American likely would have been? Mueller says that option was never on the table, no matter what the facts might show, because the Department of Justice long ago concluded it would be unconstitutional to indict a sitting president.
To be clear, Mueller is not saying Trump should be indicted or impeached. He’s simply saying that choice was not in play and it is not his call to make now.
All this devastating testimony produced no visible effect on the Republicans questioning Mueller. One after another they tried to impugn the special counsel’s motives, echoed the call of “witch hunt,” steered away from any discussion of the troubling evidence, and played the role of a faithful choir in the Church of Trump.
And of course, they came out of the hearing calling Mueller and his report hopelessly compromised by alleged and unproven Democratic influence. There's nothing wrong with defending the president during a scandal, but denying reality helps no one.
Mueller confirmed that Comrade Trump was lying, getting support from a hostile foreign government, knew about it, was happy with that support, and then tried to obstruct the investigation into that support. And all you hear from the MAGA fan boys is Hannity talking points about a “Russia hoax” and Democrats conspiracy theories.
But even in Washington, facts still matter. And the facts in the Mueller report, and now in his congressional testimony, as stumbling, even bumbling, as it seemed at times, paint a damning picture of a president neck-deep in highly questionable behavior … no matter what Trump and his minions claim.
Mueller’s answers during his testimony show that the president lies, asks others to lie, and then lies about the lies.
"It's unpatriotic to accept foreign help during an election" said Mueller.
What is it about Mueller's testimony confirming that trump was lying, obstructing and could go to jail for his criminal actions that you do not understand? 
Oh boy, fresh fact filled.
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she aint bitin.