'Americans Should Be Happy': ABC News Defies Dems on Mueller Report, Actually Tells Viewers the Truth
From the unlikeliest of sources — ABC News’ Terry Moran — came the one thing that people ought to have taken away from Saturday’s revelation that the Mueller report found no evidence of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign: “Americans should be happy” about that.
It may have been difficult to discern when Attorney General William Barr’s summation of the Mueller report leaked to the press. In fact, in certain newsrooms, the attitude seemed almost funereal that the report seemed to be, in the words of ABC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams, “an all out win for the President and consistent with what he’s been saying since day one.”
Democrats were furious, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer releasing a joint statement. In it, they said that Barr was “not a neutral observer” and “not in a position to make objective determinations” due to his “bias” against the special counsel, Fox News reported.
However, ABC News actually defied the Democrat line and noted that the finding is something most citizens ought to be cheering.
“And this is, therefore, a moment in our history, right?” Moran asked, according to Newsbusters.
“Since the President was elected there has been a shadow over this presidency. Some people have looked for it to end because of their belief that somehow his election was illegitimate because of the involvement of Russia.
“Robert Mueller, one of the most respected prosecutors in America, exhaustively investigated with the power of subpoena and access to signals intelligence, human intelligence, all kinds of things and he did not find evidence that Trump or members of his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia.
“That is huge,” he continued. “It is something, frankly, that — that Americans should be happy about, that the President was not assisted by Russia.”
“I doubt that’s going to happen. But this is a conclusive determination as quoted. This is not Barr’s spin. This is Barr quoting directly Robert Mueller.”
And that’s exactly the point that most newspeople weren’t making.
The idea that our president was involved in collusion with the Russians should be repugnant to each and every one of us. Granted, there were always partisan feelings on both sides of the aisle — most people’s beliefs on collusion tended to be based on their opinions on the president.
However, you can still hate President Trump and be happy that he didn’t work with the Kremlin to undermine our elections. Believe me, the two things aren’t mutually exclusive — unless, of course, your hatred of Donald Trump requires you to believe certain things about his election.
To a certain element on the left, Trump will always be illegitimate, not because his election was a fraud but because it allows them to deal with the trauma of Nov. 8, 2016.
It wasn’t that the polls were wrong or that America came to a different decision than they would have liked. It was the Russians. It was fake news. It was some kind of fraud. There’s no way it could have really happened fair and square.
But ABC wasn’t giving any truck to this line of thinking. Instead, they were honest about just what the report meant.
“One of the things that’s remarkable as someone who has covered this for now 22 months is that, in each indictment, we never had a case where Mueller brought before a court and accused any American, anyone associated with Trump with directly conspiring with the Russians,” chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas said. “And I was speaking (to) some sources about that and one of the things that some sources said is, ‘look, we never could find that the Russians ever actually put anything in the hands of Trump campaign officials.'”
George Stephanopoulos, meanwhile, talked about how “one of the things we heard from the president — what — 200 something times over the last 22 months? No collusion, no collusion, no collusion. Robert Mueller is backing the president up on that.”
Exactly. Those are words many of us never thought we’d hear. And they’re great words — unless, of course, you need that collusion narrative to ease the trauma. But if you need America’s elections to fail because of a candidate colluding with the Russians, what does that say about you?
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