TRUMP OR MUELLER. WHICH WOULD YOU WANT IN YOUR FOXHOLE?

America often tries to discredit its true heroes. Because they reveal things about us we don’t want to believe. Telling the truth to power is hard. It takes bravery. Because the telling is going to potentially destroy the teller. That was Robert Mueller. We’ve all read at this point the vile response to his death from our emotionally damaged president. Which was the opposite of heroic. Or brave. It was petty and juvenile. And what we always expect from Donald Trump. Yet he is revered by many. Go figure. Here’s a refresher course in the Mueller report… Thirty-seven indictments including six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, a California man, a London-based lawyer, and three Russian companies. Seven were convicted. Mueller developed compelling evidence that Trump obstructed justice. Repeatedly. Mueller said publicly that the investigation did not exonerate Trump. Among the specifics: Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses. A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that any other person who engaged in the obstructive conduct attributed to Trump would have been indicted. Some of Trump’s most significant obstructive conduct per the Report: Trump asked his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to arrange for Mueller to be fired in June, after he started work. Trump denied he’d done this when a reporter broke the story about the requested firing in 2018. Trump tried to get McGahn to deny reporting about his conduct as it surfaced, and once threatened to fire McGahn if he wouldn’t. McGahn refused. Trump summoned McGahn to the Oval Office and ordered him to create a false record that denied that Trump ordered him to fire Mueller, which would be a federal felony if proven. After AG Jeff Sessions recused from overseeing the investigation, Trump repeatedly tried to compel him to “unrecuse” (no such thing exists) and tried to get Corey Lewandowski to threaten Sessions that he would be fired if he wouldn’t. Trump wanted Sessions to limit the Special Counsel to investigating future elections. That would have meant no investigation into Russian interference in 2016, an information gap that would have left the country vulnerable to future attacks. The president engaged in witness tampering, with one of the worst examples being dangling the prospect of a pardon to keep Paul Manafort from cooperating with the Special Counsel’s investigation. Trump pardoned five of the Americans Mueller convicted: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and Alex van der Zwaan. Manafort and Stone were convicted by juries. Flynn, Papadopoulos, and van der Zwaan pled guilty in court, each acknowledging under oath—Flynn twice that they were pleading guilty because they were guilty, and for no other reason. “Mueller indicted 38 individuals and entities, including Russian agents who hacked into computers and stole email messages and who posed as Americans on social media to influence voters. And far from exonerating the Trump campaign, Mueller found that its members met with Russians at Trump Tower, shared polling data with a Russian intelligence officer, and coordinated messaging with the WikiLeaks release of stolen emails. This case was always less about Donald Trump and more about Russia, but rather than report Russia’s overtures to the FBI, Trump welcomed the help.” The truth was, and still is, “Russia, Russia, Russia.” Who do you think is the real hero?