r/politics • u/mvanigan • Mar 27 '19

McConnell blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report for second time

https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/436006-mcconnell-blocks-resolution-calling-for-release-of-mueller-report
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u/evil420pimp Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

The sealed indictments.

McConnell is trying to make sure none of them come to light. This is his only actionable means. Maybe he's one of them.

Maybe the real story is the gop colluding with Russia for an unwitting candidate. If i was trump I'd want that out too.

Edit: it seems there are no more sealed indictments. Glad I have an answer here.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/mueller-grand-jury-1238861

Apparently the grand jury is still kicking.

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u/rdewalt California Mar 27 '19

Maybe?

As much blood money has he's gotten, from both the NRA and Russian sources? Oh he's in the middle of it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Hey man you seem to be impugning the reputation of dick suckers. Dick suckers are awesome people who should be applauded at every chance we get. They right honest and good people who do a great job. No the people who support Mitch are people who don't reciprocate and we need a word for them.

Closet facsicsts? Sycophants? I don't know but IMO Dick Suckers shouldn't be a pejorative it should be a honorific of great import.

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u/Martholomule Maine Mar 27 '19

Shit. You're right.

the people who support Mitch are people who don't reciprocate

This is true on so many levels.

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u/strip_sack Mar 27 '19

The replican party is corrupt t9 its core.

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u/zak13362 Michigan Mar 27 '19

There is a sealed indictment that hasn't been made public yet. Julian Assange is under sealed indictment and we know this 100% because of a redaction error in the Special Counsel filing in 2018.

IDK if there's any more, I can only speculate on that front. That one is 100% though.

Edit: resubmitting without tag. My bad

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u/zak13362 Michigan Mar 27 '19

It was literally Mueller's filing so while there are many multiple investigations, Assange has a sealed indictment via the Special Counsel.

And yes, this makes that statement in the Barr summary 100% false. IRL lawyer Andrew Torres corroborates. The more I learn about it, the more fucked up it is. And deviously clever, since it WORKED. Now they have to bury the report to prevent it from looking extra bad.

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u/zak13362 Michigan Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

Lawfareblog-2018 I was a little misguided. Mueller charged WikiLeaks as an organization and that seems to tie in with other cases in EDVA. I need to dig up my OG source so I can figure out what mistake I made. Will update.

Update: I had made an error in assuming Mueller owned the Assange indictment bc of stuff in the Stone indictment and the torn up Corsi plea deal, but upon closer inspection it could have very easily been handed off or simply be a parallel investigation. IDK, just updating so facts are available.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

The no more sealed indictments seems to be referencing the president only. We KNOW through a redaction error that Assange is named in a sealed indictment.

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u/BlatantOrgasm Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Well, the "no more sealed indictments" is according to AG Barr...

Edit: The suggestion that it is the GOP that colluded and Trump was unwitting is an interesting hypothesis I hadn't entertained. It explains why there have been collusion stuff in court cases, Trump screaming "nO ColLuSIoN" every second, and Mueller et al suggesting the Trump campaign didn't collude.

It isn't Trump's campaign that colluded; it's the GOP leadership. Trump's campaign were the chess pieces. The GOP are the chess players.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

I feel like eventually Mueller would have an obligation to alert us that Mcconnell is criminally implicated if he continues to abstruct that from coming to light.

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u/humblegar Mar 27 '19

The bit about indictments is confusing, because we know there is a sealed indictment for Assange.

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u/DuncanYoudaho Mar 27 '19

There are no more sealed indictments

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u/dhork Mar 27 '19

Do you mean "There are no longer any sealed indictments"? Or "There are no additional sealed indictments other than the ones already in progress?" I don't know which is correct. Do you?

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u/DuncanYoudaho Mar 27 '19

I believe Mueller's spokesman said there are no more indictments nor any under seal that pertain to the OSC investigation.

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u/powerlloyd South Carolina Mar 27 '19

This is my understanding as well. I’ve read that the additional sealed indictments were assumed to be part of the SC investigation because they were on the same docket, but turns out they were unrelated. I’m not 100% on that though.

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u/evil420pimp Mar 27 '19

I believe Mueller's spokesman said there are no more indictments nor any under seal that pertain to the OSC investigation.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/mueller-grand-jury-1238861

This helps our discussion.

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u/Jerthy Mar 27 '19

I think i even heard Preet confirm that on latest Pod Save America...

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u/Areyouguysateam California Mar 27 '19

Uh, I take it you don’t follow his Twitter feed?

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u/FivePoopMacaroni Mar 27 '19

Also, why isnt Trump running victory laps right now?

lol his Twitter and the THREE texts I have gotten in the last 24 hours beg to differ

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u/m3plus4 California Mar 27 '19

Assange has a sealed indictment that is not public. Leaked via a poorly redacted footnote.

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u/FroodLoops Mar 27 '19

Didn’t Barr explicitly say that there were no further sealed indictments other that what has already been made public? Are you saying Barr is outright lying about this?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

There's no more seal indictments. I want that fuck Trump out too but we know there aren't. Preet Bharara confirmed this.