Billy Long: Mueller found no collusion, but Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, media still unhinged, lying

(From Seventh District Congressman Billy Long)

At long last, special counsel Robert Mueller has turned in his report on Trump – Russia collusion to U.S. Attorney General Barr. What was Barr’s conclusion in a 300 plus page report? He found no collusion between President Trump and Russia during the 2016 election.

After 675 days, 600 interviews, 28 hearings, 50 attorneys working on the investigation and more than $25 million dollars spent, special counsel Robert Mueller’s work is done. Not only did Mueller find no evidence of collusion, he found that President Trump and associates turned down multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals that offered up their help during the election. 

I voted in Congress that I want to see the full report released to the public minus any necessary redaction for national security concerns. The public is entitled to see the full report in my opinion.

This $50,230 a day investigation was nothing more than a political smear campaign aided and abetted by a long list of politicians and media folks. 

Since the beginning, 8,500 articles have been written by The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC. These news outlets dedicated more time, space and money for the Russia investigation than issues such as the Trump administration’s work to defeat ISIS and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. 

Matt Taibbi with the Rolling Stone said it best when he said Russiagate may have destroyed the media’s reputation. Although I would argue the mainstream media’s reputation was destroyed a long time ago, its coverage of the Russia investigation only made things worse.

Over the last two years, Democrats, along with nearly all 2020 presidential contenders, have used the Russia investigation as one of their main rebukes against President Trump. When it finally came to a close, what should have been a time of celebration and relief turned into more political games and talking points. 

Both Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Schumer released a joint statement questioning Barr’s letter and declaring that despite the fact the Mueller report found zero collusion they would still proceed with partisan congressional investigations.

As I’ve said from the beginning, special counsel Mueller deserved to finish his work concerning Russia’s possible meddling in our election. I believed that the facts needed to come out unimpeded. 

We were told myriad times and had it shouted not from rooftops, but from studio sets that President Trump was going to without a doubt fire Mueller. That did not happen. 

Mueller’s investigation was completed and the facts showed that President Trump and associates did not collude with Russia. It’s time to move on and put this behind us. The next time a president of these United States is so vilified by an unhinged mob perhaps this unfortunate event will give them cause for pause before they order up another fake dossier and force the hiring of a special prosecutor. 

We have more important issues that need our time and energy. Issues like unsealing the FISA warrants to see who lied to the judge before something similar happens to you or me. Joseph Goebbels once said if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

The president told the world repeatedly, “There was no Collusion with Russia,” and even though we were told in a most Goebbels-esque fashion that there most certainly was collusion when the dust settled ... there was none.