President Trump Calls It Right Again : "An Illegal Takedown That Failed"

THE WAIT IS OVER -- BUT THE MEMORIES LINGER ON. Special counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday. Muller also said there will be no more indictments. But, the bitter taste of the entire Mueller fiasco clings to our tongues. • • • MUELLER PROBE ENDS QUIETLY. On Saturday, DC Alert said, "Leaked Document & Mueller Probe Ends with a Whimper." DC Alert reminded us : "Internal Justice Department guidelines state that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and senior DOJ officials, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, have indicated that the department would not disclose damaging information about individuals who are not indicted. But Democrats have argued that Congress is entitled to such information as part of its own sweeping investigations into obstruction of justice and abuse of power on the part of President Donald Trump." • One piece of good news for the Republic is that there were no mobs, no street riots, no storming of the DOJ. The delivery of the report went down without street noise. • AG Barr told both House and Senate Judiciary Committee leadership that Mueller’s report on any possible collusion of Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump had been submitted to him : "The Special Counsel has submitted to me today a ‘confidential report explaining prosecution or declination decisions’ he has reached.” • The President Trump-labeled “witch hunt” went on for almost two years and the Democrats in the Obama Deep State who started it have "almost nothing to show for it," says DC Alert -- by all accounts, that is, because leaking is the name of the game in the Swamp and we have no idea what the lead leakers for the Democrat Swamp will produce in the coming days. Barr also wrote that all that is left is “to determine what other information from the report can be released to Congress and the public consistent with the law.” • • • WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP ACCUSED BUT UNINDICTED OR EXONERATED? We don't know yet, and may never know if DOJ guidelines are followed, but It is a huge relief for the Republican Party to finally put these allegations of Russian "collusion" behind. Of course, Democrats, now without both Fake claims to hurl against the President and the hope that Mueller will come through for them, will certainly not let peace descend between them and the President they despise -- for them, President Trump is as guilty of 'collusion' as if Mueller had actually found collusion and charged him. That is a prima facie case of an entire political party so far out of touch with reality that it doesn't matter what the facts are. • Fox News told the world on Saturday : "Mueller is not recommending any further indictments as part of his inquiry, which effectively ended Friday, according to a senior Justice Department official. Barr notified key congressional leaders in a letter Friday evening that Mueller finished his investigation, adding that a summary of the probe’s findings may be provided to lawmakers as soon as this weekend. It will likely take longer for the facts supporting the conclusions to come out, Fox News is told, because there may be materials that are either classified, or subject to executive privilege in the factual material. Fox News is told that Barr may run the conclusions past White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Emmett Flood, who are currently in Mar-a-Lago, before they are released -- but that Trump's personal attorneys are unlikely to be notified." • Fox News also confirmed that : "House Democrats, meanwhile, will conduct a conference call at 3 p.m. ET Saturday with “chairs of relevant committees” to discuss next steps regarding the Mueller report and messaging. New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries will host as Caucus Chair, and attendees will include Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff, as well as Committee on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters. Delaware Democrat Senator Chris Coons, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Saturday : 'It’s the end of the beginning. But it’s not the beginning of the end. We’re spending the weekend in anticipation of what Attorney General Barr may share with Congress' and cautioned that Democrats were 'concerned executive privilege could be asserted broadly here' to hide the report's key findings. Some advocacy groups have made clear they aren't keen on waiting. A nonprofit organization on Friday night filed the first known Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking the immediate and total public disclosure of Mueller's completed report and all related documents, echoing bipartisan calls for transparency following his nearly two-year probe into whether the Trump campaign illegally colluded with Russia. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) wrote in an emergency complaint filed in a Washington, DC, federal district court that the 'public has a right to know the full scope of Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election and whether the President of the United States played any role in such interference.' " • We poor mortals who harbor no death-wish against our President know that the Mueller probe was formed to determine exactly that -- and we now know that Mueller found no indictable "collusion" -- or, to call it by its legal name, "conspiracy." BUT, the radically Insane Democrat Swamp just cannot accept the truth when it is shoved down their throats by their own carefully-plotted-and-chosen special counsel. • Fox News acknowledges this as the reason for the Democrat pursuit of Trump post-Mueller : "The delivery of the Mueller report, which a DOJ official called 'comprehensive,' does mean the investigation has concluded without any public charges of a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia or of obstruction by the President. That's good news for a handful of Trump associates and family members dogged by speculation of possible wrongdoing. They include Donald Trump Jr., who had a role in arranging a Trump Tower meeting at the height of the 2016 election campaign with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was interviewed at least twice by Mueller's prosecutors. Still, some key details remain unanswered, EPIC said, prompting its litigation." • House Judiciary Committee chairman, New York Democrat Jerry Nadler said in a statement : “If the Justice Department doesn't release the whole report or tries to keep parts of it secret, we will certainly subpoena the parts of the report and we will reserve the right to call Mueller to testify before the committee or to subpoena him.” • Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who also calls for the release of the Mueller report, emphasized in Friday tweets the lack of any finding of conspiracy with Russia in the Mueller investigation. Greenwald condemned pundits for hyping the Mueller report irresponsibly for nearly two years : "It's truly fascinating to watch Dems grapple with the fact that Mueller finished his work without indicting a single American for conspiring with Russia over the election: everything from "nobody has read his report!" (irrelevant to that fact) to 'sealed indictments!' (unhinged)." In another tweet, Greenwald criticized media for promoting the anti-Trump rhetoric of partisan commentators like ex-CIA Director John Brennan -- an Obama appointee whose security clearance was revoked last year because, the Trump administration said, he was using it to lend credence to political attacks. Greenwald tweeted : "You can't blame MSNBC viewers for being confused. They largely kept dissenters from their Trump/Russia spy tale off the air for 2 years. As recently as 2 weeks ago, they had @JohnBrennan strongly suggesting Mueller would indict Trump family members on collusion as his last act....Oh gosh - turns out that if you hire ex-CIA Directors to be 'news analysts,' they'll abuse our airwaves to disseminate self-serving disinformation....How - if you're an MSNBC viewer (or consumer of similar online content) - can you not be angry & disoriented having been fed utter [bulls--t] like this for 2 straight years with basically no dissent allowed? Just listen to what they were telling you to believe & how false it was." • So, there is only one thing to do -- for the Swamp Democrats, if Mueller could not "find" conspiracy, the House Judiciary Committee will scour the Mueller report, perhaps call Mueller as an adverse witness, and do a better job than he did -- creating conspiracy out of thin air in their effort to destroy the President who is preventing them from finishing the job Barack Obama started -- transforming America into a socialist state governed by elites who are not subject constitutional checks and balances. • Fox News noted that : "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declared it 'imperative' to make the full report public, a call echoed by several Democrats vying to challenge Trump in 2020. 'The American people have a right to the truth,' Schumer and Pelosi said in a joint statement. Democrats also expressed concern that Trump would try to get a 'sneak preview' [spare us the histrionics !] of the findings. 'The White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public,' they said in a joint statement. • It is not clear, says Fox News, "whether Trump would have early access to Mueller's findings. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders suggested the White House would not interfere, saying, 'We look forward to the process taking its course.' But Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, told The Associated Press Friday that the legal team would seek to get 'an early look' before they were made public. Giuliani said it was 'appropriate' for the White House to be able 'to review matters of executive privilege.' He said he had received no assurances from the Department of Justice on that front. He later softened his stance, saying the decision was 'up to DOJ and we are confident it will be handled properly.' The White House did receive a brief heads-up on the report's arrival Friday. Barr's chief of staff called White House Counsel Emmet Flood Friday about 20 minutes before sending the letter went to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary committees." • • • THE MUELLER PROBE TIMELINE AND RESULTS. The President has repeatedly decried Mueller’s probe as a “witch hunt,” emphatically denying he or his campaign colluded with Russia to undermine Democrat Hillary Clinton’s chances in the 2016 race. The President has alleged that many internal “conflicts of interest” exist in Mueller’s team and has said his legal team is drafting a “major counter report” in response to its findings. Fox News stated : "Mueller’s investigation, which was initially ordered to look into the 2016 election in May of 2017, has gone on for almost two years. It has expanded to probe financial crimes of Trump associates before the election, conversations Trump’s national security advisor had with the Russians during the transition and whether Trump obstructed justice with his comments and actions related to the probe. Mueller, the former director of the FBI under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, was appointed special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May of 2017. In his order, Rosenstein directed Mueller to investigate any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign, as well any other matters that arose from the investigation. 'If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters,' Rosenstein wrote to Mueller. Since then, Mueller’s team has indicted, convicted, or won guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies as part of an investigation that has also probed issues unrelated to the 2016 campaign. Twenty six Russian nationals and three Russian companies have been charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election. But none of the Trump associates connected to Trump have been charged with crimes related to collusion, though Mueller’s team charged former Trump associate Roger Stone in January with lying about his communications with WikiLeaks, which published hacked Democratic emails during the election. Other convictions include : former national security advisor Michael Flynn and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who both pleaded guilty to making false statements in 2017. Former campaign adviser Rick Gates in 2018 pleaded guilty and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted and later pleaded guilty in a separate financial crimes case dating back before the 2016 election. Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements in a case brought by Mueller in November. Alex van der Zwaan, a London-based lawyer, pleaded guilty to making false statements this year, and Richard Pinedo, a California man, pleaded guilty to identity fraud in 2018. Mueller has also looked at actions taken by Trump after sworn in as President, like his firing of FBI director James Comey and his ousting of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions, once one of President Trump’s most loyal and trusted advisors infuriated Trump over his recusal from the Russia investigation. In March 2017, Sessions announced his plans to recuse himself after reports surfaced detailing undisclosed conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the campaign. At the time of his recusal, Sessions said he met with the 'relevant senior career department officials' to discuss the issue. 'Having concluded those meetings today, I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States,' Sessions said. Rosenstein, Sessions’ number two at the Justice Department, then took control of the investigation and decided to appoint Mueller to take over the probe -- an investigation Trump has repeatedly lambasted as a 'phony witch hunt.' Rosenstein said at the time, 'What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.' Mueller said in a statement, upon his appointment : 'I accept this responsibility and will discharge it to the best of my ability.’ " • Newsmax reported last week that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote to then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley last year that gave some clues into the Russia probe : "Punishing wrongdoers through judicial proceedings is only one part of the Department's mission. We also have a duty to prevent the disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnish people who are not charged with crimes. In fact, disclosing uncharged allegations against American citizens without a law-enforcement need is considered to be a violation of a prosecutor's trust." Rosenstein added later, "No matter who an investigation involves -- an ordinary citizen, a local or state politician, a campaign official, a foreign agent, an officer of the federal legislative, executive, or judicial branch -- agents and prosecutors are obligated to protect its confidentiality." • • • ALL THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE DEMOCRATS. TheHill reports : "Senator Christopher Coons (D-Del.) said Saturday that President Trump could have a 'good day' once the principal findings from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe are handed over but warned against jumping to conclusions. Coons, asked if it should be assumed that there are no further indictments coming for Trump or his team, outlined a number of potential outcomes, including that Mueller's report could be positive news for the president and his allies. 'I think there is more here for us to unpack here in Congress and there is more work to be done in terms of accountability and transparency, but, you know, once we get the principal conclusions of the report, I think it's entirely possible that [it] will be a good day for the President and his core supporters,' Coons told reporters during a conference call. Coons added that lawmakers 'should be cautious' about drawing conclusions, adding that the Justice Department has a well-known, decades-old policy that a sitting President cannot be indicted. 'It's possible that Mueller concluded there was no evidence to justify any legal action against the President...or he could have concluded that there was nothing there that was strong enough to challenge that policy,' Coons continued....Coons...said he was waiting 'in anticipation' to learn more about Mueller's report and that he didn't yet know 'what may be coming' to lawmakers about the probe. 'It's been a significant investigation so far and one whose ultimate conclusions none of us know, so we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves,' he added. Democrats are demanding that Barr release Mueller's report publicly, something he stopped short of pledging to do during his confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee. Coons also said it would be 'appropriate' for Mueller and Barr to testify publicly. • Will this be another fiasco for the Democrats? Will they refuse to fall on their anti-Trump swords and brandish them into the 2020 election, where they may be severely chastised at the polls for their intransigent hatred of Donald Trump? • • • WILL THE GOP BECOME MORE ASSERTIVE? BizPac Review reported on Saturday about the Friday Palm Beach County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner held at Mar-a-Lago. BizPac Review reported a very happy mood at the dinner, bolstered by the Mueller report being turned in to AG Barr, with no new indictments. The President and First Lady attended the fundraiser and Trump spoke briefly, though he did not mention the Mueller report. Among his comments, he marveled at the First Lady’s poll numbers. Then, President Trump introduced Senator Lindsey Graham as the keynote speaker. During Senator Graham’s speech, BizPac Review reported "he called for an investigation into Clinton and the origins of the infamous and debunked Dossier. He hit the right chord with attendees, as a spirited 'lock her up' chant broke out. Reportedly, Trey Gowdy was leading the chant from the head table. Now that the President has been vindicated there is a growing sentiment on the right that there should be some kind of accountability for the witch hunt that has produced so much waste and created so much divisiveness in the country." One commenter to the BizPac article wrote : "The bias and corruption is never going to stop until someone like HRC is finally held accountable! The longer they get away with their bull?? the more emboldened they become! Someone has to do the right thing and soon!" And James Woods tweeted : "And now that the decks are cleared… #TheRealWitchHuntBegins pic.twitter.com/Mh9IHAII25— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 23, 2019." • Reuters reported that : "Trump had no public events scheduled on Saturday and played golf, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said. “He’s fine,” Gidley said, when asked by reporters how Trump was feeling. “He’s good, he’s good.” Gidley declined to say whether Trump had talked about the Mueller report while golfing." Reuters noted that : "A large pro-Trump float behind a flatbed truck pulled up to the golf course about an hour after he arrived, adorned with American flags and 'Trump 2020' signs.' " • Political analysts expect the Mueller report to have a significant impact on the 2020 presidential campaign -- how Democrats might be able to use it stop Trump being reelected and how Trump could use it if he is cleared of wrongdoing. The big question is whether the report contains allegations of wrongdoing by Trump or exonerates him. Mueller investigated whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow to try to influence the election and whether the Republican President later unlawfully tried to obstruct his investigation. BizPac Review said : "Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, the two top Democrats in Congress, said the investigation focused on questions that 'go to the integrity of our democracy itself: whether foreign powers corruptly interfered in our elections, and whether unlawful means were used to hinder that investigation.' US intelligence agencies have concluded that Moscow meddled in the election with a campaign of email hacking and online propaganda aimed at sowing discord in the United States, hurting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and helping Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, said, 'The attorney general has said he intends to provide as much information as possible. As I have said previously, I sincerely hope he will do so as soon as he can, and with as much openness and transparency as possible.' Even if the Mueller report exonerates Trump, that may not spell the end to his legal troubles. Cohen pleaded guilty in August to campaign finance violations in a case overseen by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who said in court filings that Cohen carried out the crimes at the direction of Trump." • • • IS MUELLER A BESMERCHED BUT GOOD COP??? Media reports have gone to great lengths NOT to congratulate the President or to note that he was not indicted, preferring to say that DOJ policy is not to indict sitting Presidents. • But, American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson took the rational approach : "Now that the news is out that there will be no indictments at all related to the actual mission of the Mueller special counsel appointment, those of us who criticized him (including President Trump) are being told we should suddenly reverse ourselves and praise him as a man of integrity. Some even ask whether we owe him an apology. Jonah Goldberg, one of the smartest NeverTrumps, tweeted out, even before the Mueller Report was delivered, an ironic speculation that the Left would turn on Mueller, while the right would suddenly discover his many virtues : 'So, if Mueller in effect clears Trump, I expect to see a lot of folks who insisted Mueller was a dirty cop, Deep State, witch hunter to suddenly discover Mueller’s integrity. And a lot of folks who insisted Mueller was the Last Honest Man to vilify him as a cover up artist.' I don't think so. The Left will not turn on him because he has made criminal referrals to the Southern District of New York, upon which the Left now pins its hopes. They also hope for the report to indicate some dirt on Trump for which he cannot be indicted while in office, but which he may have to face after he leaves the presidency." • Lifson then says : "And as for conservative critics of Mueller, I will speak for myself. First of all, he should never have hired Andrew Weissmann to be his lead investigator, who, it has been suggested by many, was the actual boss of the investigation, as Mueller withdrew from active, day-to-day management. Weissmann had disgraced himself in the prosecution of Arthur Anderson's work for Enron, where the guilty verdicts were thrown out by the Supreme Court, after that firm had been utterly destroyed, costing thousands of people their jobs and the partners their fortunes. Second, the prosecutors included no Republican donors but many Hillary donors, and the team initially included Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, whose fanatic hatred for Trump, disdain for his supporters, and determination to act as an 'insurance policy' in case he was elected, should have disqualified them. A prosecutor interested in the truth should not assemble such a lopsided crew of fanatics. Third, once it became clear that the Steele Dossier -- the very basis for the appointment of Mueller -- was a Hillary-generated oppo research fantasy, Mueller should have announced that he would not pursue what the law calls the 'fruit of a poisonous tree,' resigned, and disbanded his investigation. Fourth, so far as we know, though I would be delighted to learn otherwise when the Report is released, Mueller pursued no investigation of Democrats and Hillary for colluding with Russia. We know that after laundering their money through the law firm of Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS, a foreign intelligence agent named Christopher Steele was employed by the Hillary campaign and DNC to collude with Russian intelligence sources and influence our election. So far as we know, Mueller was not told to investigate only Republicans. Fifth, the aggressive prosecutors ruined many innocent lives with the costs of lawyers, including the destruction of professional careers." • Lifson uses the Jerome Corsi case as his example : "We now know that an abusive threat to prosecute him was made against author Jerome Corsi unless he signed a 'confession' he claims was untrue. Special counsel Robert Mueller's team offered Corsi a proposed plea agreement, which would have required him to admit to one criminal charge with two components: lying to investigators and obstruction of justice before congressional or grand jury proceedings. 'Corsi refused to sign the plea deal. He then released drafts of his plea agreement and indictment, went on a media tour slamming Mueller's team, and published a book detailing his experiences with the special counsel. In the end, Mueller concluded his investigation without ever bringing charges against Corsi. On Friday, Corsi accused Mueller's team of trying to push him to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit. 'I went in there to cooperate with them. They treated me as a criminal,' Corsi said. 'I consider this entire investigation to be fraudulent,' he said. 'I'm glad it's over.' Because Corsi was never prosecuted, we know that this was a false threat, that there was no substantial case. Had Dr. Corsi (he is a Harvard Ph.D. in history) possessed fewer resources (including especially guts), he might well have lied and given the false evidence demanded in order to spare himself the ordeal of prosecution before a District of Columbia jury composed overwhelmingly of Hillary voters, cognizant that federal prosecutors obtain guilty verdicts about 98% of the time." • • • DEAR READERS, what can any honest evaluation of Robert Mueller as special counsel produce? He put another notch in his Democrat pistol handle. He destroyed General Michael Flynn for his failure to resister as a lobbyist for a foreign entity -- a matter normally settled with completing the registration and paying a fine -- and he did ti be entrapping Flynn in the White House when he had his agents tell Flynn he did not need WH counsel for the meeting he set up to trap the General. He wrecked the life of Paul Manafort and his family forever -- Mueller's decision to prosecute for financial rimes that ended in about 2014 was earlier refused by the DOJ for lack of evidence. He ran roughshod over most DOJ rules concerning treatment of witnesses whose memories were faulty. He used strongarm tactics to extract plea bargains form people he then tried to muscle into lying about what President Trump had done, knowing they would buckle under the enormous pressure of the federal criminal investigation apparatus. He used tactics reserved for terrorists to raid Roger Stone's home at 6 AM instead of just asking him to come into the federal court to be charged. • Nice guy, Robert Mueller. • So, when we heard a Swamp Creature scum like Representative Adam Schiff, California Democrat chairman of the House Intelligence Committee say about a month ago the "evidence" of Trump collusion with Russia was "in plain sight," we know what his level of honor and integrity are -- ZERO. Politico reported after the State of the Union address in January about Schiff's comment : " 'Chairman Burr must have a different word for it,' Schiff told host Dana Bash...pointing to communications between Russia and Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump aides George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn. 'You can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion, pretty compelling evidence,' Schiff said, adding, 'There is a difference between seeing evidence of collusion and being able to prove a criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.' " American Thinker's Rick Moran had the right answer for Schiff : " 'If there's "evidence in plain sight' for Russian collusion, then Mueller is either blind or in cahoots with Trump, because the special counsel isn't indicting anyone else. But Schiff is nothing if not tenacious. He is vowing to continue the investigation. 'We will find the truth,' he told Wolf Blitzer of CNN. Today, Schiff and numerous other politicians, pundits, and various left-wing loons are still digging through that manure pile looking for the pony they are certain is there. It's sort of like Bullwinkle pulling a rabbit out of his hat ('Nuthin up my sleeve...presto!') 'Wrong hat,' Adam." • The New York Sun's Editorial on Saturday asked a question nobody else in the media is considering : "For Whom Is Mr. Mueller Speaking?" The NY Sun Editorial is clear : "While America is waiting to see what Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller reported, here is a question: Whom does Robert Mueller represent? On whose behalf is he speaking in the document just handed to the Attorney General? Is he speaking for a grand jury? Or the Executive branch? Or for Congress? Or the 'United States,' as he suggests in documents he’s filed in court? We raise these questions because Mr. Mueller’s appointment as special prosecutor was opposed by the only officer the Constitution empowers to commission him in the first place. That situation, in our opinion (a minority one, we comprehend), lies at the heart of all the sturm and drang of the 675 days Mr. Mueller worked on his report. The only one who seems to appreciate the point is Mr. Trump. It has infuriated him. We know that because the President has been railing about it from the get-go, most recently in one of his patented tirades to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo : 'A deputy [Rosenstein], that didn't get any votes, appoints a man that didn't get any votes, he's going to write a report on me. I had one of the greatest election victories in history....and now I have a man...'....because we have an attorney general who -- nobody can even believe he didn't tell me, but he recused himself -- so I have a man who is a deputy who I don't know, who I didn't know at all, and he appoints a man who had just left my office, I didn't give him the job at the FBI, [James] Comey's his best friend, but listen...I have a deputy, appoints a man to write a report on me, to make a determination on my presidency? People will not stand for it.' " The Sun editorial says President Trump is being "widely mocked" for this kind of tirade. BUT, the Sun states : "George Washington, though, or Thos. Jefferson would have grasped his point exactly. Washington presided at the convention that wrote the Constitution that vests solely in the President the power to commission 'all' -- not 'some of,' not 'many of,' not 'most of,' but 'all' the officers of the United States. Jefferson was out of town when the Constitution was written, but he later warned against permitting a President to be dragged through the courts. Quoth Jefferson : 'Would the executive be independent of the judiciary, if he were subject to the commands of the latter, & to imprisonment for disobedience; if the several courts could bandy him from pillar to post, keep him constantly trudging from north to south & east to west, and withdraw him entirely from his constitutional duties?' ” The NY Sun Editorial goes on : "No doubt Mr. Mueller is a fine person, but in this case, an argument can be made that he’s a constitutional imposter. The President was considering Mr. Mueller for director of the FBI when a deputy in the Justice Department, without informing the President, commissioned him as special counsel to investigate the very officer in whom is vested the executive power to commission 'all' officers. Mr. Mueller said nothing to the President about that. So whom does Mr. Mueller represent when he goes into court signing documents on behalf of the United States? Thirty of the 50 states elevated Mr. Trump to the presidency. The 116th United States House has had from the get-go all the power it needs to launch an impeachment inquiry. It still hasn’t done that in a proper way. We’re not such a purist in respect of the Constitution that we fail to see that the arguments we adduce here -- and that Mr. Trump has been making -- are not prospering. We understand the Supreme Court has taken a different view. We, though, share the concerns of Justice Antonin Scalia, who warned that unleashing this kind of prosecutor risks affecting the 'boldness of the President.' Just for the record, we made these arguments when special prosecutors were being sicced on both Republicans and Democrats, most notably, President Clinton, when we first started writing about Jefferson’s warning. At this juncture, we know no more about what Mr. Mueller’s report says than any other newspaper. Whatever he turns out to have reported, though, it’s hard to see for whom, in the constitutional sense, he’s speaking." • At 3:46 PM ET on Sunday, CNBC reported in true Fake news propagandist fashion : "Attorney General William Barr said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation did not find sufficient evidence that President Donald Trump obstructed justice, or that the president's campaign coordinated with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election." No direct quotes were included. • Fox News reporter Gregg Re gave real information : "Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released the 'principal conclusions' of special counsel Robert Mueller's completed Russia probe in a bombshell four-page letter to Capitol Hill lawmakers, which stated definitively that Mueller did not establish evidence that President Trump's team or any associates of the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia -- 'despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.' Mueller's team specifically looked into two Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election -- first, the work by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to 'conduct disinformation and social media operations' designed to 'sow discord' in the U.S.' According to Barr's letter, 'The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its effort' to interfere with the 2016 presidential election in that manner. Next, Mueller investigated whether the Trump team was involved in the hacking of emails, many of which were released publicly, that belonged to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). 'The Special Counsel did not find that any US person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated' with Russians who worked on those hacking efforts, according to Barr's letter, 'despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.' Mueller's report did not reach a conclusion on whether the Trump campaign obstructed justice, and left that decision to Barr and officials at the DOJ. But Mueller 'recognized,' according to Barr's letter, that the lack of evidence that Trump was involved in collusion would undercut any obstruction case -- which would depend on showing a corrupt intent by the President. Barr'rs letter concluded : 'After reviewing the special counsel’s final report on these issues… Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.' Barr added, 'the special counsel states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.' " • In plain English, the President and his campaign team did nothing wrong. End of story -- but we will still have to suffer through the radical Democrats and their twisted and outrageous "Get Trump" fantasy. • As he always does, President Trump got it exactly right when he told reporters Sunday that the release of a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe findings represented a "complete and total exoneration," calling it "an illegal takedown that failed."