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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
How did I give the benefit of anything to Yglesias? Are you dense? I said he was only partly right, but I think the actual way that the government gave money to people had more to do with whether they thought they were getting more or less money than anything that anyone said. Either way, Yglesias is not a progressive activist. He wasn't saying that he lied about anything, anymore than this was an admission. Jeebus.
That's not quite what Barr said. (E.g., see this.) Obviously, his effort to create a narrative worked, because you have swallowed it, hook, line and sinker, and are now regularly regurgitating it. |
I’m citing Barr’s words. If you’d like to put his exact words here, do so.
If you’d like me to reread a Rube Goldberg analysis (you previously cited this article... or someone else did), I’d say: You’ve already cost me those precious minutes. Give me them back first.
ETA: Fuck it. Here are Barr’s words:
The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As the report states: “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
Are you suggesting that Trump conspired with non-govt actors but, despite charging for every other incidental crime he found, Mueller gave Trump a pass because he was only looking for conspiracies with the Russian “Government”?
If that’s the argument, put on the Tin Foil Mitre.
ETA2: Or are you saying Mueller simply didn’t have enough to prove a conspiracy? Better part of 2 years, thousands of subpoenas, numerous cooperating witnesses, and hundreds of hours of interviews and god only knows how much intel from domestic and foreign sources, but still that mastermind, that cunning genius with so many years of political experience, Donald Trump, was just too damn clever for Mueller to catch?
Fashion yourself some tin foil pajamas.
