{"id":36491,"date":"2019-04-08T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36491"},"modified":"2019-04-08T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:02:15","slug":"if-theres-nothing-there-release-the-report-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36491","title":{"rendered":"If there&#8217;s nothing there, release the report . . . now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=collusion%20%23RobertMueller%20%23WilliamBarr%20%23collusion%20%23MAGA%20%23Russiaprobe&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/barr-mueller.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36285\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/barr-mueller-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/barr-mueller-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/barr-mueller.png 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s no evidence of &#8220;collusion&#8221; or &#8220;obstruction of justice&#8221; in that well-chronicled &#8212; but still-unknown &#8212; report from special counsel Robert Mueller, then why is Attorney General William Barr dragging his feet in releasing it to the public?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I have to ask, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Mueller finished his exhaustive probe into whether the Russians colluded with Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign in 2016. Barr said Mueller came up empty. No collusion. Got it! Check!<\/p>\n<p>Obstruction is another matter. Barr said Mueller did not &#8220;exonerate&#8221; Trump, but found nothing on which to file a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it &#8212; according to the attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in Congress want the full report released. Barr said he intends to block some of it. Maybe much of it. The public won&#8217;t see the whole thing, if Barr gets his way.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump keeps swaying in the breeze. He says &#8220;release it.&#8221; Then he waffles. Back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to presume the president doesn&#8217;t know what Mueller found per the obstruction matter. I also am being forced to presume &#8212; at least until it&#8217;s proven otherwise &#8212; that Barr has concluded there may be more than meets the naked eye in that Mueller report.<\/p>\n<p>Trump trumpets &#8220;no collusion, total exoneration, witch hunt!&#8221; If so, then what in the world is the holdup here?<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, I&#8217;m inclined to believe that New York Times report that some of Mueller&#8217;s legal eagles are unhappy with the way Barr presented their findings, which likely might explain a whole lot about the delay in getting this report released to the public that deserves to see it <em>in its entirety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They told the NY Times that Barr soft-pedaled the findings in his four-page summary and that there&#8217;s more in there that implicates Donald Trump in <em>something<\/em> not yet explained.<\/p>\n<p>Can we get it explained? Immediately?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=collusion%20%23RobertMueller%20%23WilliamBarr%20%23collusion%20%23MAGA%20%23Russiaprobe&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s no evidence of &#8220;collusion&#8221; or &#8220;obstruction of justice&#8221; in that well-chronicled &#8212; but still-unknown &#8212; report from special counsel Robert Mueller, then why is Attorney General William Barr dragging his feet in releasing it to the public? Hey, I have to ask, you know? Mueller finished his exhaustive probe into whether the Russians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If there&#8217;s nothing there, release the report . . . now!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7131,1424,3983,7093,8203],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-william-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36493,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions\/36493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}