Demanding that the Department of Justice send over all its underlying data to the Mueller Report, 56-year-old House Judiciary Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) continues to push the narrative that Atty. Gen. William Barr is covering up the real findings behind he Mueller Report. Schiff insists that Barr’s March 24 conclusion that Trump was cleared of Russian collusion and obstruction of justice was misleading. Citing a March 27 letter to Barr from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Schiff insists that Barr is stonewalling his Committee’s duty to provide oversight. Yet whatever Mueller said to Barr March 27, he only didn’t say that Barr distorted his findings or mislead Congress or he public. Listening to Schiff you’d think that 22-month Mueller Report had zero credibility, leading Schiff to start a new investigation into Russian collusion and obstruction of justice. Schiff continues to push
After citing Barr with Contempt of Congress May 7, Schiff probably won’t get the docs requested from the DOJ. Schiff and other Democrats in Congress know that the purpose of the Mueller Report is not to give Democrats a strategic advantage against Trump heading into the 2020 presidential election. Democrats hoped that Mueller found Trump guilty of Russian collusion and obstruction of justice—but he didn’t So Schiff, House Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-NY.) and Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) decided to reopen the Mueller investigation, essentially putting 72-year-old President Donald Trump in double jeopardy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) insists that there’s a constitutional crisis because Barr refuses to turn over documents to Congress that break DOJ rules. Barr has no authority to break DOJ rules, House subpoenas or not.
When Trump asserted executive privilege May 7, Democrats immediately said there was a constitutional crisis. Democrats have weaponized Congressional committees to place Trump in double jeopardy. Schiff, Nadler and Cummings have created a constitutional crisis, watching Congress exceed its Article 1 powers, abusing oversight functions in order to usurp Trump’s Article 2 powers. Schiff, Nadler and Cummings want to cherry pick the Mueller Report and redefine obstruction of justice. Legal scholars, like Harvard Law Professor emeritus Alan Desrshowitz, say Trump had a right under his Article 2 powers to change any personnel in the executive branch. Yet if you ask, Schiff, Nadler and Cummings, Trump obstructed of justice by talking to subordinates about firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Barr concluded that Trump did not collude with Russia or obstruct justice.
Demanding docs from the DOJ gives the public the impression that Congress has the right to seek any documents from the executive branch as a part of oversight functions. But once Congress demanded March 17, 2017 that former FBI Director Robert Mueller conduct the investigation into Trump’s alleged Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, Congress agreed to let Mueller conduct the investigation. Once Mueller’s final report cleared Trump of collusion and obstruction of justice, Democrats rejected Mueller’s Report. Mueller’s Report was a criminal probe into Trump’s alleged Russian collusion and obstruction of justice. Because the Special Counsel was the “trier-of-fact,” Congress no longer had a role in deciding Trump’s fate. Once the Mueller Report cleared Trump, Congress abused its oversight power to to reopen the Mueller investigation and draw a different set of conclusions.
Calling the Trump’s assertion of executive privilege a constitutional crisis, Democrats hope to further damage Trump’s credibility heading into the 2020 election. If there’s any constitutional crisis it involves weaponizing Congressional committees to ignore the results of a legally binding investigation. When you consider how partisan the U.S. news media has become, the public has no way to evaluate the content of information. Whether or not you agree with one political party or another, the media should still remain politically neutral when reporting the facts Anti-Trump media outlets promote the Democrat Party’s political attacks on the president, something that harms U.S. citizens. All the talk about Russian influence in U.S. elections, it pales in comparison to the propaganda delivered in the U.S press—a sad testimony to how biased U.S. media has become in the age of Donald Trump.
Schiff, Nadler and Cummings have weaponized their congressional committees for one purpose: To damage Trump before the 2020 presidential election. Asking more more Mueller Report docs seems innocent enough but actually attempts to invalidate the Mueller probe to give Democrats the chance to put Trump in double jeopardy. Because the Special Counsel was the “trier of fact,” Congressional Democrats want to cherry pick Mueller’s findings to re-litigate the Report’s conclusions clearing Trump of Russian collusion and obstruction. Asking for more docs, and refusing to provide them, doesn’t mean there’s a constitutional crisis. It means that the Justice Department has a right to follow its own rules and not provide additional docs to Congress. Mueller’s report was intended, by law, for the Attorney General, not Congress and the Public. Citing Barr with contempt shows how political Congress has become.
