Well, the day has come. The Mueller report has been released and guess what; Attorney General William Barr’s summary was accurate. There was no collusion. There was no conspiracy. On the obstruction charges, there wasn’t enough evidence to bring forward formal charges. Here is where Democrats will make their last stand. Obstruction junction is ahead. It’s the only thing the Left can keep going from this clown show. I’m all for it. The longer the liberal media looks like idiots, the better it is for us. And if the Russian collusion myth was bad, the obstruction nonsense will be a whole other level. And yes, former Young Turks reporter Michael Tracey was there to provide brutal analysis on the report. Tracey is a progressive. He does not hide that fact, but he’s also an original Trump-Russia collusion skeptic. Line-by-line Tracey guts every linchpin of this whole myth that was peddled for two years by the Democrat-media complex.
He also poked fun of those who continue to think that this Russian collusion nonsense is…real. One New York Times columnist compared Barr’s presser today to something akin to what we seem from authoritarian dictatorships. He understands that after two years of pushing this garbage, the Left is hooked on Russian collusion, though he urged his colleagues to get off the crack pipe and get on the road to recovery. Why? Well, because this report definitively kills the Trump-Russia collusion story for all time.
Remember when there was huge speculation about whether Mueller would investigate Trump's personal business activities, because if he did not investigate such matters, he would fail to uncover collusion? Turns out he DID investigate the Trump Org, dating back to at least 2013 pic.twitter.com/NP6COZ2kxu
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Remember when there was massive speculation about Alfa-Bank being a key pillar of the Trump/Russia conspiracy? Yes, Mueller did investigate activity related to Alfa-Bank and found no conspiracy pic.twitter.com/tmqbaL33bR
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Remember when Manafort sharing polling data with Kilimnik was supposed to be the lynchpin of the Trump/Russia conspiracy? Mueller says this event had zero bearing on any broader "collusion" scheme pic.twitter.com/2yBHUIfVtu
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Wait, there are collusion truthers running around proclaiming they were right all along, when Mueller -- in plain, universally-accessible, English text -- has definitively announced that he concluded there was no collusion? Am I dreaming?
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Mueller debunks one of the foundational myths of Trump/Russia, which is that the effort to change the GOP platform in 2016 was somehow part of a grand collusion plot pic.twitter.com/VU3eVAUvoj
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
I'm reading the Report just like everyone. But we already know with absolute certainty that Bill Barr did not misrepresent Mueller's finding on collusion, which is what has driven weeks of conspiracy theorizing since the Report was submitted.
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Top-line conclusion of the Mueller Report does not detract one iota from the most important, principal finding, to which everything else is subordinate: "The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government" pic.twitter.com/ZvH2APZjYN
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
The logical conclusion of the current "coverup" conspiracy theory is that Robert Mueller is locked in a dungeon somewhere -- maybe in the basement of Trump Tower, or Siberia -- watching helplessly as Bill Barr maliciously lies about every major aspect of his 2-year investigation
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Message to Bill Barr truthers: the key difference between Iran/Contra and Trump/Russia is that former stemmed from actual criminal wrongdoing, whereas the latter was based on a fiction
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
The US government is a military dictatorship because my conspiracy theory has been disproven https://t.co/5SmAaAByVl
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Barr also essentially exonerated WikiLeaks of any criminal wrongdoing in the publication of the DNC/Podesta emails. When it rains, it pours! ??
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Unless Bill Barr -- a former Attorney General under George H. W. Bush and a widely esteemed member of the DC legal establishment -- is one of the most blatantly sociopathic liars on the face of Earth, the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory is officially dead
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Barr could not have been more definitive and emphatic that there was no evidence to establish any conspiracy, coordination, or collusion. Unless he's egregiously misrepresenting the Report -- and we'll see momentarily -- he just stuck a stake through the heart of this theory.
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Time for the conspiracy fanatics to take one last hit from the collusion crackpipe. Suck in deeply and let the anticipatory euphoria wash over you. Addiction is difficult to treat but this is your first step on the road to recovery.
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
The move to proclaim that the Mueller investigation was somehow always about "obstruction," rather than collusion, is as cynical as it is desperate. We all remember why this investigation was launched. Obstruction, whatever its merits, is a totally ancillary matter. Stop lying
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
Read this tweet several times. Barr is exercising substantially more transparency than is required by DOJ regulations. Doesn't mean Barr is virtuous or infallible, but it cuts against the people already losing their minds screaming "coverup" https://t.co/Qm8VOkyKGk
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 18, 2019
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