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The Mueller Report
The Mueller Report - As released to the public by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019
593 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 5, 2019
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July 1, 2019
Just plain bonkers that the people outlined in this report are running the United States.
June 27, 2019
This is not the version I read but that one does not appear. I decided to read it because of all the talk on all sides about it and I wanted to judge it for myself. It is not a quick or easy read. I highly recommend referring to the notes in the back while reading which slows it down even more. I’m glad I trudged through it though. I understand a few things. First I understand why Mueller did not pursue more indictments. Secondly I understand the media approach to it. From what I read many of the media accounts that were judged fake were in fact true and collaborated in the report. From this also strengthens a firm belief I’ve known for a long time that our democracy is not as airtight as i thought. In my many years caring about our government I now realize that many of our leaders have exercised discretionary judgments that they didn’t necessarily need to and that there’s a lot of opportunities to not exercise discretion. I encourage reading it. There’s lots to unpack.
July 1, 2019
I wanted to read it for myself, and honestly, it's mostly approachable. There were only a few times I got lost (or bored) in the legalese. Three pressing insights come from the whole thing: 1. Trump didn't conspire with Russia. 2. But Russia did hack our election. 3. And Trump tried to obstruct the investigation. It's not a good report for American democracy. The real question is if we'll do anything about it.
August 5, 2019
Your country does not ask a lot: occasional jury duty, vote, pay some taxes. It's been a while since the country asked people to strap on rifles and fight in the trenches against Nazis. For the good of your country, though, read the Mueller Report. The first volume chronicles the astonishing efforts the Russians use to meddle into our elections, and how receptive the Republican party was, and continues to be, of that assistance. Volume 2 details the efforts the Republican president took to thwart a full investigation of his lies, chicanery, and insolence of American justice.
If you cannot read anything else, read the the Appendix C, where you can read the Republican president's answers/non-answers of questions from the Special Counsel. In detail you can read the lies and the deliberate omissions of answers that document the president's insolence, corruption, arrogance, and disregard of the laws that are purported to serve us all.
Don't take Fox, CNN's, or my view on this report: Read it for yourself and decide for yourself.
If you cannot read anything else, read the the Appendix C, where you can read the Republican president's answers/non-answers of questions from the Special Counsel. In detail you can read the lies and the deliberate omissions of answers that document the president's insolence, corruption, arrogance, and disregard of the laws that are purported to serve us all.
Don't take Fox, CNN's, or my view on this report: Read it for yourself and decide for yourself.
December 5, 2019
278/ 347 pages without appendices Robert Mueller didn’t get this job because of his prose stylings; this is a slog. And ‘the good parts’ I already knew. When told that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.” (258) I gave up when another set of investigations started. I couldn't read this and listen to that. Bought at B & N $6.49 8/31/19.
July 23, 2019
Whew! Finished just before Mueller’s testimony to Congress. This is not exactly a page turner, however, it is impossible to ignore/overlook the multiple instances of Trump attempting to and actually obstructing the progress of the investigation into the role Russia played in Trump’s electoral victory.
July 24, 2019
Reading this was dry as a bone, but I wanted to see the details for myself. Clearly, there were multiple instances of obstruction of justice by Trump. Are there no consequences for breaking the law so blatantly?
August 3, 2019
Listened to the free audio version at mueller.report@libsyn.com. Google podcast. 12 hours of audio. Great narrator. Very easy to listen to. No legalese. Direct quotes, some containing vulgar language, redactions, etc. Highly recommend.
July 1, 2019
Humph
July 19, 2019
Read the report, don't rely on AG William Barr's summary of it. They are vastly different.
August 1, 2019
That was nuts. Actually scared me about how deep the Russian interference goes. Though, it does seem Trump did not do anything with Russia. But, it does seem he tried very hard to cover it up.
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September 10, 2019Essential reading. Clear and obvious evidence of wrong-doing and obstruction of justice. If everybody in America read this report then Trump would be gone.
December 12, 2020
I wanted it to be an interesting explanation. The introduction was good.... I never finished it. I will keep it and try again another time
July 23, 2019
This is not identical to 8 .5 x 11 paperback I read, but it's as close as I could come to the format. News people keep telling you it's too hard to read, but I managed to read it in it's entirety over a two week period. The first half is about links between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and a partial investigation of how Russia intervened in the 2016 election in a limited scope. The second part is about instances of obstruction of justice by many members of the Trump administration, some of whom have been convicted, mostly for lies to the FBI and the White House staff. The report is vaunted as being 400 pages long, which is less than the novels I tend to run through. About 1/10th has been redacted in big black boxes, so you are then at 390. It has about seven pages of table of contents, so if you are following one thread, you can find it. The electronic version where you can seek out a name might be helpful if you want a very pinpointed reading, but I did not go that far. It also has an appendix of the cast of characters involved, for which I was very grateful. I did not find the appendix of Trumps replies to written questions very illuminating. A tip for reading documents like this is to take it in segments, the logical segments outlined in the TOC. Another tip is to read the summaries of both volumes before embarking on the heavy lifting. Ditto the conclusions. Some of the investigation left me bored to sleepy. Some of it read like a spy novel. And actually if you read this outside a historical crisis it would make a great basis for a spy novel because indeed there are many spies within it. It totally lacks sex interest because Mueller kept away from salacious things, concentrating on threats to Democracy and Justice. Unfortunately there is a lot of sexual misconduct to overlook and it is connected to some of the financial mysteries. While volume I does not prove collusion with Russia, (or Turkey) it does indicate a great deal of contact, some of which is far from appropriate. But don't stop with volume I because it makes so much more sense if you read volume two, wherein the hotspots are illuminated by the attempts to divert investigation. Not to mention the story keeps growing on a daily basis with more and more people exposed for misdeeds, corruption and connection.
I hate the phrase "witch hunt" (which doesn't appear in the document to my knowledge). Early colonists of America died because people were frustrated, angry and decided they were witches. In Europe, perhaps millions died under torture because people determined they were witches, or were paid witch hunters. A hundred would be enough to justify refraining co-opting this phrase, in the same way it is disrespectful to use "Holocaust" loosely. And spies were found, and when I use the terms spies, I mean people in the employ of foreign governments who did not disclose these ties and lied about them. It's okay to talk about that, because some of them have been convicted of FARA irregularity.
The phrase "I do not recall..." is overused, and the words "misleading" and "lie" appear altogether too often. Read the large footnotes because often the most interesting things are hidden in them, like the light sentences give to those who aided the investigation. If necessary, keep bloodpressure and anti anxiety medication close at hand, next to the antacids, aspirin, etc. I worked in law offices for many years, and have only a cursory knowledge of the law, so I will make few legal or political conclusions. But the ethics of using stolen emails to one's advantage is dishonest, sort of like eating stolen food while knowing it was stolen, but on an enormously different scale. Watching someone steal a car and not calling the cops is morally corrupt, no matter how you feel about the neighbor. These are the kind of moral decisions you wrestle with at age 8, and perhaps beyond, but you know the right answer. And the more powerful you become the more of these decisions you have to make.
I also watch the news to keep up with new developments on our electoral integrity. Thre has been a lot of talk about the expense of preparing the report, and I enjoyed Rachel Maddow crowing over the Trump Tower Residence that had been ceased as paying a huge part of the bill. a 4.6 million dollar fine of a law firm isn't anything to sneeze at either. Undoubtably other income will be generated from this investigation, including billions of dollars in legal transactions, real estate transactions from seizures, etc. I wish the media would stop framing it as impossible to read. You can do it, really. You don't need complete comprehension, just attempt it. And there are places you can listen to it, or hear it dramatized, such as in the testimony of it's author.
I hate the phrase "witch hunt" (which doesn't appear in the document to my knowledge). Early colonists of America died because people were frustrated, angry and decided they were witches. In Europe, perhaps millions died under torture because people determined they were witches, or were paid witch hunters. A hundred would be enough to justify refraining co-opting this phrase, in the same way it is disrespectful to use "Holocaust" loosely. And spies were found, and when I use the terms spies, I mean people in the employ of foreign governments who did not disclose these ties and lied about them. It's okay to talk about that, because some of them have been convicted of FARA irregularity.
The phrase "I do not recall..." is overused, and the words "misleading" and "lie" appear altogether too often. Read the large footnotes because often the most interesting things are hidden in them, like the light sentences give to those who aided the investigation. If necessary, keep bloodpressure and anti anxiety medication close at hand, next to the antacids, aspirin, etc. I worked in law offices for many years, and have only a cursory knowledge of the law, so I will make few legal or political conclusions. But the ethics of using stolen emails to one's advantage is dishonest, sort of like eating stolen food while knowing it was stolen, but on an enormously different scale. Watching someone steal a car and not calling the cops is morally corrupt, no matter how you feel about the neighbor. These are the kind of moral decisions you wrestle with at age 8, and perhaps beyond, but you know the right answer. And the more powerful you become the more of these decisions you have to make.
I also watch the news to keep up with new developments on our electoral integrity. Thre has been a lot of talk about the expense of preparing the report, and I enjoyed Rachel Maddow crowing over the Trump Tower Residence that had been ceased as paying a huge part of the bill. a 4.6 million dollar fine of a law firm isn't anything to sneeze at either. Undoubtably other income will be generated from this investigation, including billions of dollars in legal transactions, real estate transactions from seizures, etc. I wish the media would stop framing it as impossible to read. You can do it, really. You don't need complete comprehension, just attempt it. And there are places you can listen to it, or hear it dramatized, such as in the testimony of it's author.
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