The report reprises some greatest hits, like the Trump Tower Meeting, with some hidden treasures, and unexplored "B"sides. Highlights include Don McGhan's multiple takes of "Stop in the Name of Law," Michael Cohen's "Sing, Sing Sing," and Sarah Sanders' soulless rendition of "I Didn't Hear it Through the Grapevine."
The liner notes make clear the necessity for this concept piece. On multiple levels, a hostile foreign power interfered in the 2016 election ,with the open encouragement of one of the campaigns. Meetings were frequent, and polling data was exchanged. Unlike a witch hunt, which always finds a witch, Mueller judiciously determined there was not enough evidence for the crime of conspiracy. Shell casings were everywhere, but no smoking gun.
Side two, obstruction, was a clearer case. Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. For anyone not holding temporary presidential immunity, what I read was so fulsome as to earn a long stay at Folsom prison. Criminality aside, by word and deed, scrupulously attributed to Trump's handpicked associates, this creature of chaos, narcissism and veniality is a blot on our history.
The report should not play softly in the back of your mind like a Miles Davis rift, It should be cranked up to full punk band intensity. Our system of free elections was attacked by Russia, and our president is without a particle of patriotism. Where is his outrage? He is too filled with self love to have any room for love of country.
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