Thursday, April 18, 2019

How the #FakeNews media will play the Mueller report

I'm going out on a very short very sturdy limb and by saying that the #FakeNews media which has been lying to us for the last 2 years about collusion are going to say, within minutes of the Mueller report being released, that it in fact shows that Trump did collude.

Now we will know that they're lying unless we believe that Mueller was secretly in Trump's pocket all along.  Because if Mueller isn't Trump's stooge and there was evidence of collusion Mueller would have indicted him.

We know this because of Mueller's history.  In the past he's been so desperate in high profile cases to get an indictment that he's hounded innocent people; the government had to pay one of his targets millions of dollars in compensation.

Also given the incessant leaking from his team, all of which was detrimental to Trump and none of which turned out to be true, it's very unlikely that Mueller wasn't eager to get Trump.  He wasn't completely dishonest, which is why he fired two people who were caught being too blatant in their partisanship, but he certainly showed that he didn't mind doing what he could to paralyze the government for two years and help the Democrats win the House.

Keeping in mind that not only didn't Mueller indict Trump he didn't indict anyone for collusion.  Not one single person.  The man who was used to justify the spying on the Trump campaign wasn't charged with a single crime.  Mueller only indicted some Russians who he thought would never see a courtroom and some people who "lied" to the FBI or who had committed totally unrelated crimes.

But the #FakeNews media will find things in the report that they will spin.  For example if Mueller doesn't definitively state that the Steele dossier was proven to be false the #FakeNews media will declare that the charges in it are true.

Another key problem is that at a Grand Jury the defendant isn't defended.  So a witness who is secretly in the pay of say Hillary Clinton could give testimony and it would never come up that he has a strong financial incentive to lie.  Data that would show that this or that witness isn't reliable or that there are contradictions between witnesses who are called and people who have a different take who aren't called won't be in the report even though they may have shaped Mueller's team's perceptions.

Hence there could be a document that says that person z did something from a source that isn't credible.  But the #FakeNews media will treat it as credible.

After lying to us for 2 years the #FakeNews media are going to be willing to go to any lengths to cover up their bias so get ready for the biggest propaganda drive since Obama told us we could keep our doctors if we liked them.

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