Reading For Understanding

YOU ARE, with advice and consent, most cordially invited to read the Mueller report, all 448 pages of it. That failing, you are summarily instructed, to put it pleasantly, to read the Ess Oh Bee. It is of the highest importance that all literate Americans do so, then find someone who can't read, which should be easy, and explain it to him or her. Go thy way among the illiterate, and explain. It is your civic and patriotic duty. It is as important, if not more so, than reciting the "pledge of allegiance" each and every day with a group of Americans, say, before tai chi class. The ordeal is not as great as it might at first seem. The prose is surprisingly accessible, the legalize, perhaps surprisingly, kept to a minimum. I did it by pulling an "all nighter", as we used to say and I think they still say in college, then going to my volunteer gig at the senior center. If I can do it... It is as if Mueller wanted to spare no effort, take no chances, incur no risk that his findings might get lost among a mountain of mumble jumble. Mueller plainly wanted plain folks to read his report, and to understand it. He wanted, and wants, the world to do so. Then, he wants us to draw our own conclusions as to his conclusions, which he with great confidence assumes we cannot mistake. In a nutshell, Robert Mueller proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Donald J.Trump is a criminal, who should be incarcerated, or, if not that, removed from the highest office in the land. Mueller's conclusion is perfectly obvious, although he never says so directly, because he lays out, step by step, point by point, in unmistakable, specific detail, the process and facts by which Trump and his presidential campaign coordinated with the Russians to win the election, and then systematically obstructed justice by engaging in a sustained effort to cover the collusion up. Again, just read it, all of it. It is absolutely astonishing. Throughout the entire campaign, Trump knew about, welcomed, and accepted Russian interference in the election on his behalf, and lied about it. He has lied about it ever since. To this day, he lies about it. His attempt to stop Mueller's investigation, to obstruct justice, was extensive, and included issuing orders to his subordinates which were so insanely illegal that his subordinates refused and failed to execute them, knowing full well that had they obeyed, they and their fuhrer would be executed, figuratively, if not literally. Mueller proves, point by factual point, that Trump tacitly colluded with the Russians, obstructed justice, and then Mueller says that the investigation did not establish that Trump colluded with the Russians, and that the investigation did not exonerate Trump from obstruction of justice. Mueller proves the crimes, then passes on indicting and prosecuting. Again, read it for yourself. Mueller knew that there is nothing about indicting a president in the constitution, and that Trump supporters all insist it cannot be done, even though they insisted that it could be done to Clinton and Obama, and that if he indicted Trump, it would end up in the court system for decades. So, he did not indict. He knew that the only remedy was for Congress to impeach Trump, or for the voters to vote him out of office. Mueller thinks Trump should be impeached and removed from office, clearly, and after you read the report, you will agree with him, unless you are a Trump supporter, or a far right conservative extremest fundamentalist evangelical Christian, or both. Most folks, if they are one, they are the other, they are both, and, in essence, crazy. Recent scientific studies indicate that extremely religious and extremely conservative people have brain damage, damage to the frontal cortex which is responsible for open minded, flexible thinking and acquiring new knowledge, but that is beside the point here. The point here is that Robert J. Mueller clearly proves that Donald J. Trump is a criminal, and a traitor, and should and must be removed from office and thrown into the clink, and that little four page summary by Attorney General Barr is a completely misleading pile of bullshit, to use the term Trump used yesterday when he finally realized what is in the Mueller report.