Washington Post: Trump’s Guilty Till He Proves Himself Innocent

For people who say they’re totally for civil liberties, Democrats sure like to come out against them when a Republican is involved (we’re still waiting for the opinion pieces from the WaPost, NY Times, LA Times, CNN, etc on Keith Ellison), going with the “guilty till proven innocent” belief

There’s no need to fear Mueller, Mr. President — if you’ve nothing to hide

(that’s the headline on the web front page. Inside the article it’s “Meet with Mueller already, Mr. President”

RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, President Trump’s lawyer, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Sunday that Mr. Trump would not sit down with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III if the meeting would fall after Sept. 1, “because we’re not going to be the ones to interfere with the election.” We would accuse Mr. Giuliani of moving the goal posts, except that Mr. Trump’s lawyers have never clearly pledged that the president would meet with Mr. Mueller at any time. Just last week they suggested Mr. Trump would take questions about collusion but not obstruction of justice.

This silly game has gone on far too long. The country was attacked. Mr. Mueller is trying to determine what happened. The president should be eager to help the country learn and move on. Instead, his lawyers have spent the summer hemming and hawing about the right circumstances for an interview.

Perhaps Mr. Mueller should take his politicized investigation which is full of mostly Democrats and has focused on processed crimes with little to nothing to do with Russia blasting a few Facebook posts and tweets and investigate the people who were in office when this was going on.

After more blah blah blah

If Mr. Trump has done nothing wrong and intends to tell the truth, he should welcome Mr. Mueller’s questioning and do everything possible to hasten the special counsel’s final report. Yet , Mr. Giuliani raised the possibility of the Trump side instead preparing its own report to counter whatever Mr. Mueller releases. The effort to create a he-said, he-said situation only heightens the impression that the president has reason to fear the truth. To help dispel that impression, he should answer Mr. Mueller’s questions, and soon.

There’s so much wrong with that, starting with the notion that if you’re refusing to voluntarily throw yourself on the floor in front of a prosecutor (indict a ham sandwich) you must be guilty of something. Even a president has rights.

But, remember, this is the same paper which never wanted Obama nor his team investigated over numerous wrong-doings. Is this a bit “whataboutism”? Well, of course. But, the WaPost never came out and said “give up the info, Mr. President!” when it came to things like Benghazi and Fast and Furious, both of which resulted in actual deaths, unlike this Russian interference, which….what did it do, by the way? Did it make Hillary collapse on 9/11? Forget to visit states she needed? Insult tens of millions of Americans? Or, remember when Team Obama with Hillary at State interfered with Russian elections, along with those in other countries?

Regardless, imagine Hillary was in office and being accused of collusion: think the Washington Post Editorial Board would telling her to testify, or that Mueller needs to show proof or move on?