{"id":178040,"date":"2019-03-24T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/24\/its-worse-than-a-crime-it-was-a-mistake\/"},"modified":"2019-03-24T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T03:40:00","slug":"its-worse-than-a-crime-it-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/24\/its-worse-than-a-crime-it-was-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Worse Than a Crime, It Was a Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/mueller-report-summary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">a summary of Robert Mueller&#8217;s report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty much what most people who weren&#8217;t trying to alibi their own incompetence in 2016, and the people who melted down like Mort Sahl did in 1963 (I&#8217;m talking to you, Maddow).<\/p>\n<p>Basically, there is little evidence of direct coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, but that there are concerns about obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>So, something may yet come of this, but something may not.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture, though, is that the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, hitched its wagon to &#8220;Russiagate&#8221;, in order to ignore the pervasive incompetence the party establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it appears that Trump, who is almost certainly both mobbed up and a bunco artist, has effectively been immunized from any accusations of wrongdoing for the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>This was a big unforced political error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have a a summary of Robert Mueller&#8217;s report. It&#8217;s pretty much what most people who weren&#8217;t trying to alibi their own incompetence in 2016, and the people who melted down like Mort Sahl did in 1963 (I&#8217;m talking to you, Maddow). Basically, there is little evidence of direct coordination between the Trump campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,588,407,374,455],"class_list":["post-178040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-fail","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}