Quote (IceMage @ Jul 24 2019 01:12pm)
So Mueller shouldn't have bothered investigating the myriad of troubling Russia related contacts involving Trump and his campaign... but he should've gone down the rabbit hole of analyzing every source Steele had, and trying to figure out if the Russian sources were intentionally spreading disinformation?
This discussion is retarded. No reasonable person could look at the facts involving Russia and the Trump campaign and think it didn't merit further scrutiny.
Another boring, long-winded essay from you? That's exactly what I wanted.
Troubling like the Trump tower meeting that Mueller never interviewed Trump Jr on?
if i had to choose between him pulling in Steele to run down sources on what started the investigation vs him pulling in Cohen to run down which porn stars Trump banged i'd choose Steele. but hey, what does an R-word like me know? i just have an actual understanding of burden of proof with a legal education and a non biased viewpoint.
i as an intellectual understand that at every step of this investigation valuable time and money were spent to try and link every transgression to Trump. read the interviews, how many times is "did president trump directly instruct you to do this". Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, etc. They should have slashed the throats of the goats and moved on to more pragmatic avenues, instead they lingered repeatedly trying to get Trump. and this wasnt even supposed to be a Trump investigation, it was an investigation into Russian interference. but we all knew, we all knew it was just a facade. it was a hail mary with the convenient side effect of political mud.
i for one would have preferred all of the people who went down to go down, a short summary on interference, then move on. short investigation. this drug out and is in benghazi nothingburger status now. it accomplished next to nothing. and things that accomplish nothing are a waste of time. i'd ask if we can even agree on that but you're way too doubled down to be reasonable, no matter how many times you cry that im the one being unreasonable.