Even though President Donald Trump has been cleared of collusion allegations — the principal justification for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation — he isn’t out of the woods yet.
That’s because Mueller, unable to find evidence of criminal behavior with his high-powered team of Democratic prosecutors, drafted his 448-page report in the style of an op-ed written for the liberal, anti-Trump media. Citing the “constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law,” Mueller unbelievably called upon Congress — the political branch of government — to “apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office.”
Paving the way
Mueller just paved the way to Trump’s impeachment, energizing the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and all but guaranteeing that radical leftists like Democratic-socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) follow through with his directive. With help from his “pit bull prosecutor” Andrew Weissman, Mueller penned his partisan masterpiece for a specific, target audience he hopes will pursue obstruction charges against the president.
After unsuccessfully using intimidation, harassment, and media leaks to create a collusion case against Trump, Mueller was reduced to pursuing a legally flawed obstruction case against the president. But the former FBI director is shrewd enough to understand that there was no legal basis for pursuing these charges.
Therefore, he did what any corrupt federal prosecutor would do when the evidence gets in the way of a conviction. Some analysts have said that Mueller “punted” by refusing to apply “traditional prosecutorial judgment” to the obstruction case, but the correct analogy would be that he “handed off” the obstruction case to a political branch of government, guaranteeing that partisanship — rather than a preponderance of evidence — would determine Trump’s fate.
Radical left responds
It didn’t take long for House Democrats to capitalize on Mueller’s transparent orders. They plan to initiate proceedings at once to begin exploring impeachment. Just ask Islamist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who promised to “impeach the motherf——-“ on her first day in office:
Everything outlined in the #MuellerReport is further proof of what I’ve been saying for a long time: it’s #TimetoImpeach. The first step? The House Judiciary Committee launching an investigation into whether Trump committed impeachable offenses.
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) April 18, 2019
Tlaib introduced a resolution in March calling on her fellow lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether President Trump committed impeachable offenses. However, few establishment Democrats were willing to subscribe to the freshman congresswoman’s scheme without a proverbial head nod from Mueller.
Democrats received just what they were looking for with Mueller’s de facto “roadmap to obstruction,” and hardline progressives who have been chomping at the bit to oust the Republican president have become even more brazen. “Let’s get the show on the road,” said liberal billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer in a Friday interview. “The Mueller report very clearly outlined obstruction by the president and basically said, I can’t do anything about it, it’s up to Congress to hold the president accountable.”
Mueller “can’t do anything about it” because he doesn’t have a case. But Democrats are increasingly convinced that they have the political capital to move against Trump. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has traditionally been opposed to impeachment without a public mandate, hinted Friday that she may be willing to consider the path that Mueller set out for her.
“Let me assure you that whatever the issue and challenge we face, the Congress of the United States will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States to protect our democracy,” Pelosi told reporters in Belfast. “We believe that the first article — Article 1, the legislative branch — has the responsibility of oversight of our democracy, and we will exercise that.”
Fighting back
Naturally, Republicans are incensed. Voicing the frustration experienced by conservatives who are watching the left move the goalposts from collusion to fake obstruction case, radio host Mark Levin slammed Mueller’s report. “This is a political document that he should never have written,” he said on Fox News. “[Mueller] knew CNN would be obsessed with it. He knew that MSNBC would be obsessed with it …This is a 200-page op-ed.”
Levin was furious with the second half of the report, or the sections where Mueller brazenly spells out Congress’s path to impeachment proceedings. “This report, Volume II, doesn’t have a syllable of legal significance,” he said. “There’s not a syllable of law in it …None of it’s been tested in a court of law. There’s been no challenge to it. No cross-examination. Nothing.”
Fortunately, many Americans can read between the lines and know a swamp document when they read one. But that is no consolation for President Trump, who will undoubtedly see the rest of his time in office undermined by Democratic grandstanding.
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