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I find the media response to the summary of the Mueller report extraordinary.

They largely seem to be falling over themselves to say President Trump is in the clear. That is, they are gladly supposing that an appointee of Trump, who has already implied the President cannot obstruct justice, is going to give an honest unbiased account of the Mueller report.

I’m simply asking people what they would think if Hillary Clinton had:

1) publicly asked the Russians to hack Republican emails and the Russians did,

2) secret business dealings with Russians during the campaign and lied about it,

3) invited those Russians to her inauguration party,

4) members of her campaign committee with secret dealings with Russians who paid them,

5) members of her campaign who knew in advance of leaking of Republican emails,

6) her daughter, son-in-law and campaign chair attend a secret meeting with Russians to get dirt on the Republican candidate and lie about it,

7) her designated national security advisor engages in secret talks with the Russian ambassador about removing sanctions and lies about it to the FBI,

8) large numbers of her campaign team had been accused of, and in some cases convicted of, criminal offenses,

9) repeatedly tried to stop the inquiry,

10) as president reveals classified information to Russian government representatives including the foreign minister,

11) has secret meetings with Putin as President, and

12) there was evidence that Russians had supported her in the election along with other shady elites who had exploited loopholes in Facebook, and other forms of social media, to manipulate discussion and promote their interests.

If so, would you think there was a problem?

Tags: Disinformation, ethics

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