Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.
Mr. Barr has said he will move quickly to release the nearly 400-page report but needs time to scrub out confidential information. The special counsel’s investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report, and some team members believe that Mr. Barr should have included more of their material in the four-page letter he wrote on March 24 laying out their main conclusions, according to government officials familiar with the investigation.Didn't I say there would be a summary? If the report were not damaging to Trump, it would already be a bestseller. In all likelihood, we will find flaws in Mueller's overly-cautious methodology, and that journalists will band with private (and congressional?) investigators to fill in the gaps.
Everyone seems to have forgotten another key point. Mueller's team was almost certainly infiltrated, or at least "overheard," by Team Trump. Trump practically admitted as much: Do you remember those tweets in which he insisted that the Mueller investigation was internally chaotic? He could he have known that?
(That is so Trump. He couldn't resist bragging.)
After the JFK assassination, the Warren report was released as well as 26 volumes of documents. Allen Dulles felt that revealing this material would not prove problematic, since "Nobody reads." He soon found out that some people do read.
Today, we must demand access to both the Mueller report and the documentation. After that, we will use FOIA to dislodge other relevant documents. Any attempt to impede this effort is tantamount to an admission of Trump's guilt.
This sort of timidity will not do.
About Trump's verbal meltdown: Boy, he was in rare form, wasn't he? First he claimed that wind turbines cause cancer -- a point he got across despite an inability to recall the word "turbine" -- and then he spoke at length about his father's birth in a quaint German village, even though Fred Trump was born in New York. And those were hardly the only gaffes.
Frankly, he sounded drugged.
We've now had a two or three presidents who have admitted to drug experimentation in college, but Trump is the only confirmed drug abuser to hold the office. Most people -- even most Trump opponents -- would be surprised to learn that he has a history of abuse, even though the facts are hard to deny.
From my earlier post, which quotes a piece by Kurt Eichenwald:
Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman, acknowledged that Trump used them as diet pills for a few days in the early 1980s. However, the medical records contradict the assertion of the length of time Trump used the drugs and photographs of Trump from 1982 show him to be quite slender.Eichenwald wrote the above paragraph. I continued the thread...
According to Eichenwald, the amphetamine problem began with an endocrinologist named Dr. Joseph Greenburg, who diagnosed Trump as having a "metabolic imbalance" -- an imprecise term that could mean many different things.
The medical records and interviews with former officials with the Trump Organization reveal that Greenberg gave Trump a prescription for amphetamine derivatives in 1982 to treat his metabolic problem; the records show that Trump continued taking the drugs for a number of years and the former officials said that Trump stopped using them in 1990 at the latest.
The amphetamine derivative was Diethylpropion or tenuate dospan (the brand name). This drug quickly becomes addicting. It's hard to believe that Trump could have taken it for years without developing a crippling habit.
Abuse of this drug leads to sleeplessness, paranoia, hyperactivity, delusions, poor impulse control. Sound familiar? I've just offered a pretty fair summary of Trump's whole act.
The obvious question: Is someone still providing the man with amphetamines?
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FYI, the Dems did finally subpoena the Mueller report today. They also finally demanded Trump's taxes from the IRS.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/437102-house-panel-votes-to-subpoena-mueller-report
If he's still on amphetamines, why is he so fat?
Sharon, that's the best question anyone has asked about this matter. I can state only that, according to Hope Hicks -- who ought to know -- Trump is indeed a former addict. But even that terminology is questionable: There are many who would argue that there is no such thing as a "former" addict. My experience with addicts is that they may forego one type of addiction only to leap into another.
Three of Trump's doctors have been accused of overprescribing medication. Coincidence?
I can introduce you to plenty of overweight amphetamine abusers -- especially ones who are multi-drug abusers, whose use of speed is *not* daily, or (and this may best describe Der Trump) who are long-term users with a relatively stable habit. The last group includes many employed or self-employed users who don't have the freedom to binge 24/7 but manage to skip sleeping every few nights. Perhaps they would be even more overweight if they didn't take amphetamines (though in some cases I can't imagine how), but the drug is *not* an immediate ticket to a trim, girlish figure -- as thousands of disappointed '50s and '60s housewives will readily attest.
I've not asked any of my friends who were fixtures there at its heyday whether they witnessed Donald and Ivana with powdered milk mustaches, but I find it hard to believe anyone could have frequented Studio 54 as often as they did without partaking of the free-flowing blow -- especially considering Donald evidently refused to dance. (Or maybe he couldn't, given his crippling heel spurs....)
Excellent points, maz. Let's face it -- "I spent a lot of time at Studio 54" and "I did a lot of drugs" are pretty much the same sentence. I don't know how Trump's supporters can think otherwise.
Speaking of Drug users, Donald Trump openly mocked and challenged Hillary Clinton before one debate that he was drug free and would happily offer blood test, if Hillary Clinton would. Hillary Clinton refused or ignore the challenge. Maybe Trump would have figured out how to game the test, but Hillary Clinton was given a chance to put Mr. Sniffles in his place and did not.
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