00:15:22 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw2019-03-23 23:29:59 The facts are that he did interfere. He fired the director of the FBI, hounded others out of the bureau, sought to fire the Special Counsel, dangled pardons, and harangued the investigators and the investigation every day for nearly two years. https://t.co/LffwBFaoHD
00:17:17 Retweeted @Susan_Hennessey00:04:21 It would be more accurate to say that despite Trump’s many, many efforts to interfere with and impede this investigation, the Department of Justice appears to have more or less stood firm. And that is something for which the American public should be very grateful, indeed. https://t.co/VkpPwCoIb2
15:40:42 Retweeted @dandrezner12:26:20 This this this this THIS by @emptywheel. “Trump and his aides all lied about what they’ve now sworn to be true. Over and over again. And that raised the stakes of the Russian investigation, which in turn further polarized the country.” https://t.co/W9GUvdZQO2
15:58:04 Retweeted @CarlosLozadaWP2019-03-22 14:48:33 “Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen?” In advance of the Mueller report, I read the special counsel and select committee reports from Watergate, Iran-contra and Clinton-Lewinsky: https://t.co/YpvoGJBwDc
16:03:19 Retweeted @davidfrum14:59:27 1. A truck of TVs is hijacked.2. Your son meets with the hijackers.
3. Your campaign manager shares route information with them.
4. You are recorded on video saying, “I love truck hijacking.”
5. The TVs are in your house.
Happy No Collusion Day.
16:09:57 Retweeted @gtconway3d12:41:54 Whatever happens this day or the next, or in this investigation or the next or the one after that, we should always remember this: We should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be a provably a criminal beyond a reasonable doubt.
16:11:00 Retweeted @RDEliason2019-03-23 15:07:57 It’s wrong to claim that the end of the Mueller probe with no more indictments is a “win” for Trump. First, if Trump “won” it implies that Mueller “lost.” But white collar prosecutors don’t “lose” if they investigate and conclude charges are not justified. 1/
16:11:32 Retweeted @jtlevy2019-03-23 23:05:12 The Mueller Report could be literally nothing but a narration of already-public facts that have been sworn to under oath, confirmed in guilty pleas, or supported by physical documents and it would be far more damning than conservative twitter triumphalism currently imagines.
16:19:40 Retweeted @mehdirhasan2019-03-23 19:59:35 Imagine, just imagine, if Mueller had been silent for past 2 years, held everything back, & then on Fri evening, announced 37 (!) indictments, including of Trump’s lawyer, national security adviser & campaign manager. We’d be in shock. The White House would be in chaos & crisis.
16:31:05 Retweeted @Davin_Phoenix2019-03-23 18:43:32 Remember when George Costanza quit his job in a blaze of glory, burning every bridge on his way out? And then almost immediately got 2nd thoughts, & decided to come to work the next day & play it off like nothing happened? That’s my read on how Britain is handling Brexit.
16:32:08 Retweeted @ForecasterEnten13:12:17 What a nutso age gap in the primary… Among those under 45: Sanders 37%, Biden 19%. Among those 45+: Biden 41%, Sanders 11%. Another illustration of why Twitter (which leans very young) will mislead you in a Dem primary like this one. https://t.co/pCV90szttWin reply to ForecasterEnten
19:36:24 Retweeted @BNONews19:36:03 U.S. Congress has received a “very brief letter” about the Mueller report, Rep. Nadler says. It will be made public shortly.
20:35:02 Retweeted @NPRinskeep20:13:56 Mueller finds Russians aided Trump but the campaign didn’t conspire. Knowing this, Trump could have denounced Russia all along and backed the investigation. Instead he publicly asked for Russian help, falsely denied receiving any, and said Republican investigators were Democrats.
20:40:33 Seeing Dems saying “OK, no collusion, but we don’t trust the no obstruction determination.” I don’t either, I think the obstruction was public and obvious. But this is not a hill to die on. Time to move on to the also obvious corruption issues.
20:41:26 Retweeted @_Drew_McCoy_20:32:31 I didn’t like Trump before this report and I don’t like it after him but give the devil his due.It’s a win. About as complete a win as possible. There’s just no way around that.
20:45:50 Retweeted @tribelaw20:32:01 The “no obstruction” conclusion was Barr’s, not Mueller’s. Dems might focus there because we already knew Barr had that weird view. But that would be an unforced error. People are hungry to move on. That means focusing on whether Trump can be trusted with our fate going forward.
Any separate intelligence analysis appears to be missing here — including Kremlin’s use of unwitting agents, campaign’s involvement with WikiLeaks etc.
20:49:52 Retweeted @DavidKlion20:30:28 I suppose “collusion” will always be in the eye of the beholder but Trump literally admitted to obstruction on TV. We all heard it. We just regard presidents as above the law.
20:50:30 Retweeted @JoeNBC20:31:24 Memo to Journalists: It is GOOD NEWS for America when someone as respected as Robert Mueller takes two years to methodically determine that the sitting president of the United States did not conspire with Russia. Take a breath.
20:51:54 Retweeted @neal_katyal20:18:27 If I were Trump,I wouldnt be celebrating. A report from a team of fed prosecutors there was evidence a sitting President obstructed justice? Is our bar so low that this is what we want from a Pres? The exoneration here is from Barr (Trump’s guy), not Mueller. Need to see Report.
20:55:21 If the letter from Barr misrepresented the full report, I would expect Mueller would break his silence either directly or through leaks to say so. I expect the summary is basically correct. What is missing are descriptions of non-crime findings that still look bad for Trump.
21:11:56 Retweeted @mattyglesias21:01:27 This is false FYI.The thing Democrats most feared was info that would induce their base to push for impeachment (a little light collusion, say) but not actually move public opinion. https://t.co/4rgDEBTa81
21:13:24 Retweeted @katherinemiller20:01:12 A thrilling day in America, when half of Twitter seems disappointed the president isn’t being charged with a crime, and the other half is like “scoreboard bitch!” that the president didn’t collude with a foreign country’s government
21:18:43 Retweeted @oliverdarcy20:58:31 For last 2 years, pro-Trump media has argued Mueller probe was a “witch hunt” & suggested Mueller was a deep state dirty cop. Now that we know the Mueller report has cleared Trump of conspiracy w/Russia, sort of proves that wasn’t the case? Mueller arrived where facts took him.
21:20:35 Retweeted @_Drew_McCoy_21:00:33 The Democrats will call Mueller, Barr, and Rosenstein to a hearing, get a few mixed soundbites and then it’ll be over.Even the 2020 candidates will start talking about the future. There’s just no hook to keep going at this point. in reply to _Drew_McCoy_
21:23:50 Retweeted @cbouzy21:00:05 I wish people would stop saying this. The House impeaches and the Senate convicts. Bill Clinton was impeached but he wasn’t convicted. The impeachment process would expose his corruption. https://t.co/JW65alxNWp
21:25:08 Is seems that lying is like breathing to them. They must lie even if there is nothing to lie about. https://t.co/gTFRpsDJyy
21:28:59 Retweeted @_Drew_McCoy_20:59:29 We all know Twitter isn’t real life, right?All these distinctions between “exoneration” and Barr and Mueller? No one will care.
They will hear “no collusion, no obstruction charge” and move on. It’s diminishing returns from here on for people clinging to it.
The one takeaway from Mueller report that really matters: US-Russia relations are likely to get much worse.
21:51:48 Retweeted @brianklaas21:18:17 Good questions by @JoeNBC. And, why did they lie about the Trump Tower Moscow project? Why did Trump behave the way he did in Helsinki, effectively kowtowing to Putin and repeatedly accepting his word at face value? That was pathetic—and all are now just big unanswered questions. https://t.co/1mcsr135HO
21:53:24 Retweeted @LauraAJarrett19:59:06 Context as you read: am told Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not consulted on this letter. This was the product of the Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, per DOJ official.
21:54:37 Retweeted @versharma21:37:45 the media is in danger of making the same mistake as with Comey letter/Hillary’s emails coverage all over again.running with a headline from a summary written by a Trump-appointed AG, that most Americans will take in as the first (or only) view of Mueller’s findings. in reply to versharma
22:11:30 Retweeted @HayesBrown22:03:05 The whole Mueller report situation feels like when a season finale is suddenly actually the series finale and all of the plot lines remaining are just out there
22:11:40 Retweeted @ianbremmer2017-12-02 21:33:53 As I see it, the Trump Russia problem isn’t collusionIt’s that his foreign policy team was staffed by idiots. Who they lied to cover for.
22:16:52 Retweeted @gregpmiller20:26:03 Bottom line: we have a POTUS whose behavior toward Russia often seemed to make sense only in context of a conspiracy, surrounded by aides who lied repeatedly about the subject. But Mueller couldn’t prove collusion. Wouldn’t decide obstruction. No likely path to impeachment.
22:18:39 Retweeted @Tom_Winter22:00:58 Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Office says “we’re not commenting” on the letter sent to Congress today by Attorney General William Barr.This is expected because Mueller has never commented on anything directly outside his purview.
22:35:10 Retweeted @DavidCornDC21:59:52 The Mueller report and Barr’s letter do not change this core element of the Russia scandal: Trump and his crew engaged in a profound act of betrayal. I explain in this article. Please read and share. https://t.co/LUuj8hvBfw
22:40:30 Retweeted @brianbeutler22:06:08 Can’t think of a more important occasion for close reading, but almost nobody is doing it. Barr’s letter asserts only that Trump associates did not participate in the specific crimes charged in the IRA and GRU indictments. Not that they didn’t “work[] w/Russia.” https://t.co/iu3Kt0wYne
22:42:39 Retweeted @NateSilver53819:57:14 Yeah, this is also my take, more or less:
1. The lack of a coordination/collusion finding obviously is very good for Trump.
2. Mueller’s seeming ambivalence on obstruction is less good for Trump, but combined with No. 1, he’ll take it.
3. We need to see the full report. https://t.co/KWT3PNkLpF
23:00:03 Retweeted @rebeccaballhaus22:31:09 How Trump world is viewing Mueller’s findings: “He basically absolved Trump of all sins,” says one former adviser.
00:26:38 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw2019-03-22 22:38:18 It’s on the smaller side, but one of the more dizzying things to me about today’s news is that this candidate for the US Congress, who requested and received stolen materials directly from the (disguised) Russian conspirators, won’t be named or charged. https://t.co/degdwjMdtW
00:48:47 Retweeted @Wilson__Valdez2019-03-22 22:22:19 So the Mueller report is in, nobody has any clue what it says, and the people who called others insane conspiracy theorists for pointing ot that Russia was interfering with our elections, are in a state of ebulent glee, claiming to be totally vindicated. Do I have that right?
01:24:55 Retweeted @mattblaze01:05:34 Prediction: when the Mueller report is released, some will point out that it confirms everything that they have been saying all along. Others will point out that the report was deeply flawed.
01:51:43 Retweeted @matthewamiller01:03:34 This is unlikely to prove true, because the two parties aren’t the same. If the latter scenario plays out, you will see some nuts attacking Mueller, but the difference between the left and the right is that the nuts are the mainstream on the right. https://t.co/eDBFVxSwcM
02:20:21 Retweeted @ErikWemple2019-03-22 21:32:47 We are in the midst of one of the great experiments in human history: How long can cable news talk about a document that it doesn’t have?
02:45:21 Retweeted @jmpalmieri2019-03-22 23:24:22 Few thots about pre-spinning an unreleased report from someone who knows how game is played. It’s easy to make such a rpt seem innocuous in abstract & w/ no indictments. It will feel worse for WH when we actually see report.
02:54:50 Retweeted @PoliticsWolf2019-03-22 15:32:24 The median American lives in a:
Clinton+2.1% country
Trump+0.8% state
Clinton+5.9% county
Trump+2.2% House seat
Remember these divergent stats when some talk about the geographic distribution of the parties. All these lines are inherently political, & nothing is natural about it
03:12:25 Retweeted @JoshNBCNews2019-03-22 23:14:41 NEW – yet another bizarre development from Trump on North Korea: A US official tells @NBCNews that Trump’s tweet was NOT about yesterday’s sanctions. It was about new, bigger sanctions that had not yet been announced but were apparently immiment
03:13:30 Retweeted @gabrielmalor2019-03-22 23:16:55 They went from “collusion is not a crime” to “no indictment for Trump, so there was no collusion.”Guys, if it wasn’t criminal, then there wouldn’t be an indictment. At least be consistent with your bullshit.
10:39:52 The most interesting Mueller report outcome would be if he concludes the Russians framed Trump in order to increase divisions in American society. That would be brilliant. Taking advantage of the useful idiots in the Trump family. Would fit their MO perfectly too.
17:29:56 Retweeted @GeoffRBennett17:28:09 BREAKING: A DOJ official tells NBC’s Pete Williams and @JuliaEAinsley that AG Barr will not brief lawmakers today on the Mueller report’s principal conclusions.
19:15:58 Retweeted @kpolantz18:39:19 NEW: Rick Gates’ case before Judge Amy Berman Jackson in DC federal court will be handled by the DC US Attorney’s Office as Mueller exits, per the special counsel’s office today.
23:01:12 Retweeted @williamjordann22:55:27 Let’s say hypothetically a candidate is on the edge of the 15% threshold to win CA delegates as the late votes come in. For that candidate 75+ delegates could be in question due to CA’s size: roughly the equivalent of winning EVERY delegate in New Hampshire and Iowa, combined. https://t.co/LmSAphvpg2in reply to williamjordann
23:58:13 Retweeted @PatrickRuffini13:06:29 The electoral college makes much more sense when you think of America as a federated union of *states* — not of individual citizens — which is how the Founders looked at it but few people look at it today
01:28:55 Retweeted @BNONews2019-03-21 22:43:43 BREXIT DELAYED
– March 29 exit called off
– If British MPs approve a deal next week, Brexit happens on May 22
– If no deal is reached, UK has until April 12 to indicate a way forward
03:20:49 Retweeted @broderick2019-03-21 15:45:56 I see this sort of comment a lot and it bothers me. By 2006, gore, porn, nazis, and harassment were already a decade-old internet problem.Almost every other messageboard had guidelines in place to combat it.
03:47:08 Retweeted @rudnicknoah03:46:49 Honestly 2019 has been tame and needs to raise the stakes. We’ve gone through just an adsurb number of slow news days where nothing has happened and we’re basically a quarter through already, pathetic
05:27:18 Retweeted @lauraolin2019-03-21 14:21:47 To the men who, a year and a half out from the election, are asking women to settle for the VP slot:One woman is consistently setting the policy conversation.
16:02:07 Retweeted @JesseCharlesLee15:29:15 Having worked in the White House comms shop in 2016, I really can’t overstate the absolute dire seriousness with which almost the entire press corps treated the Hillary email issue. It was a matter of deep conviction. It just speaks volumes about how far the bar has been lowered. https://t.co/zNQLand2kF
18:12:46 Retweeted @KerryHowley14:56:51 A very real generational divide exists between people who give driving directions involving roads and turns and landmarks and people who stare at them pretending to listen
19:04:17 Retweeted @RichardHaass18:30:04 in just 24 hours the secstate was surprised by Golan Heights tweet & now @realDonaldTrump has lifted new Treasury sanctions vs NK b/c he likes Chairman Kim. There is not even the pretense of a national security process. Hard to imagine what would occur if there were a real crisis
19:18:50 Retweeted @KBAndersen19:06:42 Definite 25th Amendment episode.The instant capricious reversal of an important new national security policy, PLUS confusion about what day it is, PLUS the reason given by his press secretary: “President Trump likes Chairman Kim.”
20:03:45 Retweeted @MoElleithee19:56:46 Two maps of the 2016 election.The first shows the results at the precinct level.
The second shows the results at the individual level. (One dot/vote)
Just thought it was worthy of examining in the context of the Electoral College conversation. https://t.co/hPzEh85mvu
20:15:59 Retweeted @pattymo14:07:53 Robert Mueller sweating in front of his laptop, staring at a Word doc containing only the words “The Mueller Report” and a blinking cursor
20:17:21 Retweeted @jamisonfoser20:15:32 what if mueller has a twitter account nobody knows is him and he’s just about to finish off the last three tweets of a “read the first word of all my tweets” thing and *that’s* his report
20:24:13 Retweeted @natemcdermott17:25:48 This is horrifying.Sydney Aiello, who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year, died by suicide this weekend. Her mother says she struggled with survivor’s guilt and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. https://t.co/su1OjxAFW2
21:23:44 Retweeted @chick_in_kiev21:11:17 i can’t possibly imagine that the mueller report will be any more damning than the voluminous public record attesting to the president being a big time crime doer who loves crimes
21:26:31 Retweeted @lizscher21:13:51 I’m so glad the Mueller report is out so we can finally know whether or not the notorious crime family committed crimes that they already said they committed
22:24:50 Retweeted @nprpolitics21:32:50 Justice Department officials would not characterize the length of Mueller’s report but would say it is “comprehensive.”Follow NPR’s coverage: https://t.co/OAN03thTqY
22:25:33 Retweeted @ikebarinholtz21:19:29 I wonder if the Mueller report will have anything REALLY explosive in it, like Donald Trump standing in front of reporters and asking Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails
22:33:04 Retweeted @renato_mariotti22:25:14 This isn’t surprising. If Mueller wanted to indict anyone else, he would have done so already.This does not tell us whether Mueller found that Trump committed a crime but could not be indicted because he is president. It also says nothing about the SDNY investigation. https://t.co/hGPR6FZxGX
22:33:17 Retweeted @SenJeffMerkley22:24:14 What #Mueller has uncovered:
Russia illegally helped Trump; Trump lied about his business in Russia; there were over 100 contacts between Russia and the campaign; and people broke the law to cover up those contacts. That’s damning evidence, NOT an exoneration. in reply to SenJeffMerkley
22:35:06 Retweeted @ananavarro22:25:48 Regardless of what’s in report, I feel great gratitude towards Robert Mueller and his decades of service to our country. Time and again, he has shown patriotism and stepped up for America: Marine Corps. Bronze Medal. Purple Heart. DOJ. FBI. Special Counsel.Thank you, sir. <symbol><symbol>
22:35:29 Retweeted @AmandaMarcotte22:25:56 Trump repeating “no collusion” like a broken child’s toy sounded dumb, but it will work. Anything short of a tape of him taking a bag of money from Putin will be spun successfully as exoneration.
22:40:36 Retweeted @ScottMStedman22:27:22 This will be an important reference point as we look to see the political fallout of the Mueller report. On the day Barr gets the report, Trump’s approval is -11. https://t.co/XUp4XBJ4Jm
22:46:53 Retweeted @MarshallCohen22:05:32 TODAY WE LEARNED: (1) The Mueller investigation is over. (2) Mueller isn’t recommending any additional indictments. (3) Trump did not fire Mueller. (4) Trump did not sit for an interview. (5) DOJ never overruled any Mueller requests. (6) There are still many unanswered questions.
22:48:17 Retweeted @johnrobertsFox22:18:07 Update on NoKo sanctions. The ones @realDonaldTrump pulled back today were not the ones leveled at 2 Chinese shipping companies yesterday. They were new large-scale sanctions that were about to be announced by @USTreasury
02:42:49 Retweeted @BNONews02:33:19 The following weapons are now banned, according to New Zealand Police. It comes less than a week after a gunman opened fire at 2 mosques, killing 50 people https://t.co/i4aJluMru5
18:33:24 This simple explainatiom for Graham’s big pro-Trump shift. It plays well to the voters he cares about. https://t.co/bfvOfPKACD
19:28:35 Retweeted @drvox19:24:36 Sorry, I’m still laughing about this. “Stacey Abrams, you’ve made it to the national spotlight! What will you do next?” “Me? I’m gonna spend the next several months defending Joe Biden from a drip-drip series of revelations about terrible policy positions & unwelcome groping!” in reply to drvox
05:48:22 Retweeted @MoiraiKnow2019-03-19 23:03:20 A congressman is suing a Tweeting cow.We, as a nation, are butter than this. Our democracy is being butchered. The steaks are too high to be steering our country in the direction of udder chaos.
07:51:30 Retweeted @ITVCentral2019-03-19 15:03:00 A mouse has been captured tidying up bits and bobs in a pensioner’s shed.Stephen McKears from Gloucestershire says he couldn’t understand how small metal items were returning to their box every night.
So he set up a special night-time camera to find out <symbol> <symbol> https://t.co/Gn1gvhTown
21:48:10 Retweeted @shanselman21:36:59 If it doesn’t have an RSS feed and is free it’s not a podcast. Medium posts aren’t blogs if Medium keeps asking me to pay them and sign in. Next stop, micro transactions for StackOverflow answers? #openwebin reply to shanselman
06:21:37 Retweeted @xor2019-03-18 16:43:19 This point is so important and gets bleaker the more you consider it. Will cultural memories without corporate backing persist for future generations? https://t.co/QyIuxhV8G5
16:14:27 Retweeted @studentactivism15:38:09 Want to know why Republicans love the Electoral College? Because Democrats have won the popular vote for president in six of the last seven elections. That’s why.
16:18:14 Retweeted @markberman16:12:21 TRANSIT CHIEF: We gotta catch this graffiti artist
CAPT MARY: Maybe we use cameras?
SGT BRIAN: Maybe deploy extra officers in the area
OFFICER KOOL AID MAN (slowly stands up in the back) I have an idea
18:47:54 Retweeted @ZoeTillman15:53:13 Hello from the 4th Circuit in Richmond, where a three-judge panel just heard arguments in DC and MD’s lawsuit again Trump claiming violations of the Emoluments Clauses. Short version: It did not appear to go well for DC and MD https://t.co/9FmgxyUXrg
20:35:37 Retweeted @HotlineJosh20:14:53 Enthusiasm gap for 2020 in the CNN poll favors Republicans.58% of Republicans “very enthusiastic” for 2020
50% of Democrats “very enthusiastic”
Consistent with legislative special election results getting more R-friendly in the post-midterm world. https://t.co/8IjLiGFop9
20:48:09 Retweeted @amandalitman20:12:53 Sarah’s experience trying to get the voter file is extremely typical of the challenges our candidates face — and as she notes in this thread, it’s even harder if you’re working a typical full time job or have parenting responsibilities. https://t.co/BVlyzQxWTF
01:14:34 Retweeted @Yair_Rosenberg00:36:18 Omar’s section on Israel in this piece is quite reasonable and far better and less fraught than her off-the-cuff tweets on the subject. Which suggests, among other things, that perhaps we’re poorly served by reducing issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to 280 characters. https://t.co/nBoD1bLZSM
02:45:18 Retweeted @SamWangPhD02:26:09@AndrewYangVFA I have bad news for your position: candidates already don’t go to most rural states. Where do they go? Swing states.Under a national popular vote, candidates would seek votes all over the nation.
02:46:40 Retweeted @ASharon00402:25:26 I was under the impression you kinda had to work a lot as President, but if you get to watch TV and tweet all day well then consider me interested
02:54:38 Retweeted @KT_So_It_Goes00:56:29 things trump claims to know everything about: cars, aeronautics, “technology”, economics, military strategy, aircraft carrier catapults, borders, historythings trump claims to know nothing about: why his staff keeps going to jail, white supremacists https://t.co/PhlfX4TEv1
19:22:40 Retweeted @drvox2019-03-17 21:44:25 We’ve been dulled by its familiarity, but this is a comically ridiculous assertion. We’re supposed to accept that it’s a *danger* that candidates might campaign where most people are, and design their policies to help the most people. https://t.co/z1Rnv91a8M
22:21:08@reesetheone1@ElectionGraphs Just switch the state to see similar for whatever states might be interesting… here are WI, PA, MI, and FL. In all but WI, you can clearly see the swing away from Clinton in the last few weeks. Only FL actually looked red at the end, but all but WI looked too close to call. https://t.co/QY8o49OdUwin reply to abulsme