{"id":41228,"date":"2019-04-17T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41228"},"modified":"2019-04-17T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:13:06","slug":"choosing-ignorance-majority-of-republicans-and-trump-oppose-full-release-of-mueller-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41228","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Ignorance: Majority of Republicans (and Trump) Oppose Full Release of Mueller Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday a version of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller will be released by Donald Trump’s plant in the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr. It will be heavily redacted by Barr to prevent the American people from seeing all of the facts accumulated during the investigation that they paid for.<\/p>\n

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Even before the release of the redacted Mueller report, there has been enough voluminous evidence of Trump’s conspiracy with Russia, WikiLeaks, and other nefarious characters, to warrant impeachment and\/or indictment. But the report almost certainly contains new information that likely further incriminates Trump, his family, and associates. Even the senior legal analyst at Fox News<\/a><\/strong> said so. Which explains why Trump is so panicked by the impending release. He is exhibiting a palpable fear of what might come out, and he feverishly expresses that fear<\/a><\/strong> in his Twitter rampages. But he isn’t the only one who is consumed with the dread of imminent truth.<\/p>\n

A poll by Monmouth University<\/a><\/strong> asked voters if the Justice Department should “provide the full Mueller report to Congress.”<\/em> The response overall was a resounding majority (60%) saying that the full report should be made public. That’s in line with every other poll on this subject. What’s more interesting is the breakdown by political affiliation. The poll found that Democrats were overwhelmingly in favor (81%) of an unfettered presentation of the facts. Which speaks to their confidence in Mueller and their appreciation for openness no matter the results. Likewise, a solid majority of Independents (61%) also favor full disclosure.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Republicans were committed to burying their heads in the sand to avoid what they must be assuming will be bad news for their Dear Leader. Only thirty-three percent said they want the full, unredacted Mueller report released to the public. In other words, two-thirds of GOP voters are choosing to remain deliberately ignorant. They have no problem with wanting to see all of Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails, or President Obama’s thirty year old school transcripts, but the sight of the product of a two year investigation of the current president by Republican law enforcement officials is too much for them to bear.<\/p>\n

Trump is also terrified by the prospect of this information becoming public. His comments on it reflect a man who is deeply disturbed and irrational as a result of this publicity. He has tweeted about Mueller nearly every day this month and over three dozen times just this year. He wavers wildly from insisting that he has been “totally exonerated”<\/em> to hostile assaults on Mueller’s team (who he says exonerated him) as being corrupt and biased. Sometimes in a single tweet:<\/p>\n

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Why should Radical Left Democrats in Congress have a right to retry and examine the $35,000,000 (two years in the making) No Collusion Mueller Report, when the crime committed was by Crooked Hillary, the DNC and Dirty Cops? Attorney General Barr will make the decision!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n