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We get it. You don't care that the president is a proven liar and the biggest promoter of "Fake News," denying one story after the next, when in fact they were true. You don't care that the president repeatedly pressured his officials to break the law. You don't care that the Russians interfered big-time in the 2016 election and that if the Trump campaign didn't coordinate with them, it wasn't from lack of desire to do so.

There is no "fake dossier" and you are a prime example of the conservative lack of ethics and embrace of lies.[/quote]

What stories did he deny that were in fact true? Did he really pressure his staff to break the law or was that just another desperate attempt to find a typical Mueller "obstruction" charge? Still not seeing where the Russians actually interfered with the election- anywhere. Though I did see some stuff about the Democrats rigging election machines in several states with fractional balloting in certain districts. Obviously not enough. However since you are worried about it- perhaps we need can all agree that we need common sense voter ID reform.   [/quote]

Clearly you haven't read the report. I suggest you do -- not afraid to, are you? (Actually I assume you know all of this and are just trolling to sow doubt.)

Yes, he pressured his staff to break the law. Time and again. You don't even have to read the report to learn that - read many of the synoposes of it all over the internet.  The reason his officials haven't been charged with obstruction is that they refused to do his bidding. Even Corey F'n Lewandowski realized Trump was asking him to do something illegal and refused to do it.

Yes, there is an ENTIRE section in the report about the Russian interference in the election. Again READ THE REPORT.

As for Trump's lies about FAKE NEWS and his pressuring his staff to lie about FAKE NEWS, here:

[quote]On the day of Mueller’s appointment, in May 2017, for example, White House aides said Trump reacted calmly to the news. In fact, according to Mueller’s report, Trump’s first reaction was anything but calm. According to notes taken by an aide, Trump responded by saying, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f*cked. .?.?. This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters repeatedly in May 2017 that she personally had heard from “countless members of the FBI” that they were “grateful and thankful” to Trump for firing FBI director James B. Comey. That never happened, Mueller said. He wrote that Sanders later acknowledged to investigators that her comments were “not founded on anything.”

Trump also dictated a press statement saying that he had fired Comey based on the recommendations of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. But Mueller found that Trump had already decided to fire Comey before Rosenstein had weighed in. Trump backed down and later publicly acknowledged he intended to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein’s memo after unnamed Justice Department officials “made clear to him” that they would “resist” the bogus justification, Mueller said.

Incoming White House aides also lied about press accounts they knew were accurate. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn directed an aide, K.T. McFarland, to call Washington Post columnist David Ignatius during the presidential transition in January 2017 and deny Ignatius’s reporting about Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. McFarland “knew she was providing false information” when she called Ignatius to dispute Ignatius’s surmise that Flynn had discussed removing sanctions on Russia with Kislyak. (Prompted by McFarland’s call, The Post updated the column to note that a “Trump official” denied that Flynn discussed sanctions.)

Trump and his aides also knocked down an accurate New York Times story in May 2017 reporting that the president had asked Comey for loyalty during a private dinner several months before Comey’s firing.

Trump even lied about who invited whom to dinner: He told NBC News anchor Lester Holt in an interview that month Comey had asked for it because “he wanted to stay on.” Mueller found evidence that the president extended the invitation to Comey on Jan. 27.

Comey’s contemporaneous accounts of his meeting with Trump and corroboration from his FBI colleagues also show that another New York Times story, branded as “Fake Media” by the president, was true. The Times reported that Trump had asked Comey to end the investigation of Flynn; Mueller found “substantial evidence” that this was true, despite Trump publicly saying otherwise.

Trump also misled the public with a vague statement in response to the Times’ inquiries about a meeting his son, Donald Trump Jr., and other top campaign officials had with Russian operatives in Trump Tower during the campaign. Trump Jr. had taken the meeting based on the prospect of receiving damaging information about Hillary Clinton from the Russians. But Trump ordered his communications director, Hope Hicks, to issue a statement saying Trump Jr. merely took a brief meeting and it was about adoption, Mueller reported.[/quote]

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