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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: This must be the worst cover-up of all time This must be the worst cover-up of all time By Rich Lowry on May 23, 2019 President Donald Trump may be guilty of many things, but a cover-up in the Mueller probe isn't one of them. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attempting to appease forces in the Democratic Party eager for impeachment, is accusing him of one, with all the familiar Watergate connotations. The charge is strange, not to say incomprehensible, in light of the fact that Congress is in possession of a 448-page report produced by the Trump Department of Justice cataloging the alleged obstruction that Congress now wants to investigate. The report is so exhaustive that many members of Congress haven't had the time to read it. If this is a White House cover-up, it's too late. It's a cover-up of an alleged crime that has already been extensively exposed, not by whistleblowers, not by Jerry Nadler, not by hostile journalists, but by a DOJ prosecutor who worked under the supervision of Trump's handpicked deputy attorney general. Pelosi has rehearsed the cliche, "As they say, the cover-up is frequently worse than the crime." Or in this case, a substitute for the crime. Mueller found no Russia collusion or coordination and didn't even accuse the president of obstruction, instead bizarrely pronouncing him "not exonerated." Pelosi hasn't deemed the alleged obstruction detailed in the Mueller report worthy of impeachment, but now insists that Trump's resistance to congressional probes is itself obstruction and "could be impeachable." This is an alleged process crime on top of an alleged process crime, all stemming from an investigation that Trump had the power to stop but never did (even as he openly hated it and came up with various schemes, never effected, to crimp it). The Mueller report is chock-full of direct accounts of private conversations with the president, which would ordinarily be considered the most sensitive White House communications most likely to trigger a claim of executive privilege. The White House never tried to block any of the testimony. Mueller often writes in such compelling novelistic detail exactly because everyone talked. The only exception was the president himself, who only took written questions about the Russian portion of the probe (remember that?). But Mueller stipulates in the report that he didn't try to subpoena the president, in part, because he had gotten the relevant information from everyone else. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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