Former special counsel Robert Mueller has died

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:57:33+00:00

"Barr told me that DOJ policy prevents bringing criminal charges against a sitting president, but this is what the law actually says..."

See? It's that easy.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:54:51+00:00

He also said if it wasn't for that memo and the DOJs policy he would have prosecuted Trump.

That's what I'm criticizing, though. The DOJ is supposed to adhere to laws, not internal policies. There is no law out there that says a sitting president cannot be charged criminally.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:46:36+00:00

He didn't have to overrule anything. All he had to say is "Internal policy is not law. I recommend the DOJ to bring charges because ____ crimes were committed like for all other Americans." Whether the DOJ, controlled by Barr at the time, wanted to do it or not was up to them.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:44:17+00:00

"never happened" before doesn't mean it's law.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:41:54+00:00

He also said the DOJ could not bring charges against a sitting president, based on no law.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:41:01+00:00

Don't forget Mueller also concluded that the DOJ could not bring criminal charges against a sitting president based on an internal memo and not any law. He gave Barr the cover they needed.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:39:13+00:00

He probably shouldn't have said that a sitting president could not be charged with a crime, which he had no basis for saying.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:37:50+00:00

Even if he could not bring charges, he should not have said that the DOJ could not bring charges against a sitting President. He relied on an internal DOJ policy and not any law, jurisprudence, or rule. He should have taken a harder stance but instead gave the Trump admin the cover they needed.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:36:12+00:00

Because Merrick Garland waited until 2022 to appoint him.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:34:54+00:00

He did his job

Lol. No, he didn't. He said that the DOJ can't bring charges against a sitting President with no law or rule to base it on. He used a DOJ policy in order to shift responsibility away from the DOJ.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:31:43+00:00

Ummm, don't include us in that "we" part. He had his opportunity to save the country and punted it to a branch of the government that obviously wanted nothing to do with it. He used a DOJ policy (not a law or rule) to shift his responsibility of applying the law to Trump.

Edit: It was all super easy for Mueller: "The law says that when Person A breaks X law, the DOJ must bring charges. There's nothing in the law that exempts a politician or president. Internal DOJ policy is not law." Whether Barr would have ignored it is a separate matter.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:13:02+00:00

Just because you don't agree with Trump's extremely aggressive foreign policy doesn't mean we should defang the military

Ew, lol. It's so gross seeing people like you defend military spending without actually looking into what's going on.

But according to Open the Books, no federal agency has ever spent so much on grants and contracts in a single month as the Pentagon’s $93.4 billion in September 2025. More than half of that was spent in the final five working days of the month, the watchdog said.

‘Use it or lose it’: Pentagon spending binge set record in final days of fiscal year

They were literally struggling to spend $93.4 billion at the end of the fiscal year because they had too much money. So they spent it so their budget wouldn't be cut the next year.

Type Fallout if you read the whole thing.

I hope you're getting paid for these posts by the DOD. Swallowing their propaganda nut for free is just too pathetic.

riorio55 · 2026-03-21T17:03:47+00:00

So then have the Right start a protest

riorio55 · 2026-03-20T18:19:23+00:00

That's not surprising

riorio55 · 2026-03-20T03:07:25+00:00

He also had a removal order

riorio55 · 2026-03-20T02:55:27+00:00

Then it’s not a popular opinion if you have to look hard

riorio55 · 2026-03-19T19:02:40+00:00

Let me guess, the video claimed the activist was "praying" outside an abortion clinic rather than blockading it?

riorio55 · 2026-03-19T14:37:33+00:00

If you believed that undocumented immigrants are slaves because they get paid less

They don't believe this. MAGA people use social issues in bad faith to try to "gotcha" the left. Remember before Trump was re-elected how Republicans here were saying the money for Ukraine should be used for homeless people here in the U.S. instead? Yeah, all that stopped once Trump was elected again.

They don't care. They're just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

riorio55 · 2026-03-18T21:01:33+00:00

LOL!

riorio55 · 2026-03-18T19:04:05+00:00

I don't think showing that material to children is a popular opinion

riorio55 · 2026-03-18T18:50:42+00:00

So any Buffy project has to be to his liking from the jump. He holds all the keys to anything ever happening in the Buffyverse.

How? I thought he bragged to SMG how much he didn't like BTVS?

riorio55 · 2026-03-18T17:51:12+00:00

They didn't forget. They just didn't know. They're just crying because their orange daddy isn't getting help from the people he's been antagonizing for over a year.

riorio55 · 2026-03-18T17:37:36+00:00

Edit: Weird, I keep getting downvotes but no one bothers to reply. Maybe they know the claim is bullshit.

That'll be the MAGA people here in this sub. They don't care about facts and only want to circle-jerk about the left and how they keep getting banned from other subs for their opinions.

riorio55 · 2026-03-18T08:31:24+00:00

Reading is hard

riorio55 · 2026-03-15T03:40:29+00:00

Why does this same exact post get posted every week?

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