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Home Front: Politix
CNN Admits No Further Mueller Indictments Is a ‘Huge Victory for the President’
2019-03-23
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Talk about a bad day to be analysts, commentators, hosts, and pundits at CNN who had been wanting the First Family’s legal situation to end in criminal charges and for the Trump presidency to end in disgrace.

On Friday afternoon after the Mueller Report had been handed over to Attorney General Bill Barr, chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and crime and justice news hound Shimon Prokupecz conceded that the lack of further indictments (sealed or unsealed) in relation to the Mueller probe is a "huge victory for the President" and "really good news" for individuals who had been subject to endless media speculation.

How bad did it get? Two CNN personalities even admitted that Trump "had been vindicated." More on that shortly.

After Laura Jarrett delivered the news that there would be no further indictments (or recommended ones), Prokupecz told host Wolf Blitzer that this was "probably one of the most significant pieces of information of all this because there's been so much speculation from everywhere" that "more is coming."

In the end, he noted "that’s not happening" even though there are other investigations that are Russia-related out there.

"So, the investigation itself in terms of other parts of this is not over. It's very important ‐ it's a very important line and there's a reason why they're saying this. No other indictments from Robert Mueller," he added.

Toobin then interjected and disregarded a setup from Blitzer so he could emphatically assert that everyone should "be specific" about this because "[t]his is really good news for a lot of people around Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...

Posted by:Fred

#14  Oh Russia did try to interfere with the election. It was just as about as successful as I am with attractive, young single women.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-03-23 22:08  

#13  With all this worry about Russia interfering with the election, why isn't everyone excited there wasn't any?

Hey, pull my finger.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-03-23 20:38  

#12  I guess it's now time to investigate Mueller for being a Russian stooge.

No question the Russians are masters of disinformation and pot-stirring. I don't doubt they would have liked to disrupt or impede US govt functions, but likely in their wildest dreams they could not have done as well as Mueller and the rest of the Deep State Coup team.

disclaimer: I was thinking of starting my own Russian troll farm given that what I'd seen of Russian attempts to rile up on-line forums was laughably ineffective - mainly from lack of understanding of American politics and linguistic idioms. Never got around to it, but it did align with my interest in natural language processing and sentiment analysis.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-23 19:15  

#11  They'll just change the story tact.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-03-23 18:41  

#10  Rachael Madcow says the Russians may be controlling our government.I guess it's now time to investigate Mueller for being a Russian stooge. The leftists are bonkers. They drank the koolaide and when the dream ended they just cant accept it was just a dream.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2019-03-23 16:49  

#9  Trump should appoint special counsels to investigate Clinton, Comey, Mueller, and the entire pack of criminals. Immediately seize all computers and records through the use of SWAT teams and make sure to perp walk all of them in front of the cameras.

And in the future, make sure that anyone in the white house press pools badges denote them as "Suspected terrorist and insurrectionist."

Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-03-23 15:03  

#8  Mueller’s job was to tie up the President and associates and keep him ineffectual until the 2020 elections. Well, he ran out of steam. Now turnabout is fair play. Anybody heading for Canada?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-03-23 13:18  

#7  So where's the surge of Talking Head Building Leapers?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-03-23 12:41  

#6  The dims are not that smart.

To be fair, they were promised a pony for Christmas and all they got was a dress shirt and some socks. The grownups knew this, but the kids will be grumpy until the next election when they'll *really* have something to be mad about.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-03-23 11:01  

#5  OK, now turnabout is fair play. Right? Lets start an investigation about Hillary, Bills, Obama's, collusion with the Russians, and the Iranian Mullahs, and the rest of our enemies...

Yeah, and don't forget China.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-23 10:53  

#4  From the NYT article (I figured it'd be the worst-case) -

With department officials emphasizing that Mr. Mueller’s inquiry was over and his office closing, the question for both Mr. Trump’s critics and defenders was whether the prosecutors condemned the president’s behavior in their report, exonerated him — or neither. The president’s lawyers were already girding for a possible fight over whether they could assert executive privilege to keep parts of the report secret.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-03-23 05:37  

#3  Mueller is at least smart enough to know you can beat a dead horse for only so long. The dims are not that smart.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2019-03-23 04:44  

#2  OK, now turnabout is fair play. Right? Lets start an investigation about Hillary, Bills, Obama's, collusion with the Russians, and the Iranian Mullahs, and the rest of our enemies...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-03-23 00:58  

#1  Some in congress have shovels out to dig more.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2019-03-23 00:35  

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