June 6th Hearings Part Two

The Mueller Report was issued a long time ago and sadly it was viewed as a partisan report. Not very much has changed since then regarding the political divide in this country.

The following is from the Washington Post:

"Perhaps unsurprisingly, the end of the investigation has done little to shake partisans’ convictions about Trump’s guilt or innocence. A 76 percent majority of Democrats thinks Trump committed serious wrongdoing related to Russian election interference or the investigation that followed, including nearly two-thirds who say he committed a crime. Separately, 8 in 10 Democrats think Trump tried to hinder the Russia investigation and committed obstruction of justice in the process."

If any thing has happened as a result of the dismissal of the Mueller Report, it has been questioning of the results of the 2020 election, even before the election and promotion of theories without evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the results of the election.

The "Big Lie(s)" regarding the election results gave us a "riot" at the Capitol which January 6th Hearings have laid out as an outright effort to overturn the results of the election.

The questions remain as to what the results will be regarding Trump's pressure on the DOJ and Trump's actions to promote a violent but unsuccessful coup.

There has always been the need for guardrails to prevent this kind of behavior too bad they have been ignored or denied.

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