When told SC had been appointed Trump said: 'Oh my God. ... end of my Presidency. I'm fucked.'"

[MelissaB]

Page 290: "According to notes written by Hunt, when Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, 'Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked.'"

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[Maven]

1. The end of his so-called presidency?

It should have never begun. He is illegitimate in every way.

[Zoonart]

2. Just what any innocent guy would say.

[lagomorph777]

12. Truly a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[anarch]

3. "no such luck, chump. now buck up, and get back out there and act like a strongman!"

"You made a bargain with Vlad, and you're not weaseling out of your part of it...you have to stay in the WH and finish destroying America!"

- Fuckface's Russian Mob Handlers' likely response

[Hortensis]

4. :) "Mueller: "The President's efforts to influence the investigation

were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."

[Kath2]

6. His removal from office will be long overdue.

[nolabear]

7. That is what stands out. They have been desperately trying to keep him from doing things.

The whole bloody presidency has been a bizarre attempt to simultaneously defy him and prop him up.

[Hortensis]

10. Protecting themselves with him most of the time, but

journalists who know leakers say even slime dwellers drawn to and by his corruption were often appalled by him.

[RobinA]

15. Well, Any Really Successful

slime dweller lives by a code and I suspect Trump has no time for any codes. Invented, as they are, by people not him.

[Hortensis]

17. Dweller code: "What's in it for me?" Yes, Trump's

extremely undependable.

[qazplm135]

9. so lets say I tried to hire a hitman

but the people I kept hiring declined to kill anyone.

Anyone think that's a defense to conspiracy to commit murder?

[lagomorph777]

13. So Mueller proves that Trump actively tried to block the investigation. But that's not obstruction.

Riiiigght. Sure. Got it.

[The Genealogist]

5. Clearly he behavior of an innocent victim of a witch hunt

[Kath2]

8. LOL.

Yes. Obviously the man is innocent.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Trump to Sessions..." I'm fucked. How could YOU let this happen?"

For a man who is all "me me me me" he acts quickly to blame others, then when the others get into trouble, he denies ever knowing them.

Amazing.

[spanone]

14. at this point, even trump didn't realize how corrupt the republican party was

he thought they would actually uphold the law

[NastyRiffraff]

16. This report is far from exculpatory for Trump

It made very clear that although the legal definition of collusion (or conspiracy) may not have been met, Trump knew he was being helped by Russia (despite his denials that there was Russian interference) and he was happy to take their help.

Trump's "state of mind," used as an excuse by Barr for his rage against the investigation, clearly shows guilty knowledge. A Trump tweet from this morning doesn't sound like something coming from an innocent man (via Washington Post; I'm in Twitter jail so can't link directly to it):

Ahead of the report’s release, the president lobbed another attack on the investigation. “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!” he tweeted Thursday morning. “The Greatest Political Hoax of all time! Crimes were committed by Crooked, Dirty Cops and DNC/The Democrats.”