According to news reports tonight, the special counsel told the White House that President Trump is not a criminal target of his investigation at this time. The President remains a "subject" of the investigation. Put this in plain English and what you have is that the special counsel is admitting that there is not sufficient evidence of any criminal wrongdoing by the President for an indictment. Remember, the investigation into the supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians is now almost entering its third year. It's also been more than a year since Trump fired former FBI Director Comey, a move that brought all sorts of silly claims of obstruction of justice. After all that time, there just isn't evidence of any crime committed by Trump.
The Washington Post and other media ran this story tonight. I'm surprised that the WaPo personnel were able to actually publish this story without there being mass suicides at the paper's headquarters. Since the election, we have heard the WaPo, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS and others putting out a non-stop avalanche of stories of rumors of wrongdoing, tales of impending indictments, countdowns to impeachment, and all manner of threats to the Trump presidency. Now that all turns out to be nothing but fantasy. It's been obvious from the beginning, but the media and the Democrats just haven't been able to accept the simple fact that without any evidence of wrongdoing, there is nothing further to do but eventually announce that President Trump did nothing wrong.
In the last years, so much effort has been wasted on the Trump-Russia nonsense that could have been used constructively to help people and to help the country. This is the biggest black eye ever for the media, in my opinion. For the Democrats, it really doesn't top the list of misdeeds, but it does make the top ten. (It's hard to top all those years of the Democrats' fighting to keep segregation and Jim Crow in place and to defeat the Civil Rights laws.) I hope that at least some of the media and the Democrats can now move on to deal with reality rather than some fantasy world built on hysteria. It's about time for that to happen.
The Washington Post and other media ran this story tonight. I'm surprised that the WaPo personnel were able to actually publish this story without there being mass suicides at the paper's headquarters. Since the election, we have heard the WaPo, the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS and others putting out a non-stop avalanche of stories of rumors of wrongdoing, tales of impending indictments, countdowns to impeachment, and all manner of threats to the Trump presidency. Now that all turns out to be nothing but fantasy. It's been obvious from the beginning, but the media and the Democrats just haven't been able to accept the simple fact that without any evidence of wrongdoing, there is nothing further to do but eventually announce that President Trump did nothing wrong.
In the last years, so much effort has been wasted on the Trump-Russia nonsense that could have been used constructively to help people and to help the country. This is the biggest black eye ever for the media, in my opinion. For the Democrats, it really doesn't top the list of misdeeds, but it does make the top ten. (It's hard to top all those years of the Democrats' fighting to keep segregation and Jim Crow in place and to defeat the Civil Rights laws.) I hope that at least some of the media and the Democrats can now move on to deal with reality rather than some fantasy world built on hysteria. It's about time for that to happen.
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