Seth Abramson's tweets say don't listen to the media

[BigmanPigman]

and that Barr is full of BS too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1109913558333210629/photo/1
@SethAbramson

(THREAD) The Barr Summary—a very different document from the Mueller Report—is being woefully misread by media. It doesn't import what media is suggesting it does. Lawyers are welcome to comment on this thread as I report the Summary accurately. I hope you'll read on and retweet.

1/ Mueller was supposed to decide if Donald Trump could be charged with Obstruction of Justice—or, if not chargeable, whether he should be referred to Congress for impeachment for Obstruction of Justice. But AG Barr usurped Mueller's job and decided to make that decision himself.
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6/ I'll do a full thread on this, but I can safely say, without *any* criticism of Mueller whatsoever, it's clear that what's happening right now is we're being hoodwinked. On obstruction, by Barr; on collusion, by media not seeing the *narrow scope* of the Mueller investigation.

5/ We're also now being told that the decision on obstruction, an impeachable offense, was not made by the man who was supposed to make it (Mueller) but by Trump's handpicked new Attorney General. Again I ask, WTF?

4/ For two years, scores of investigative reporters and independent journalists traced every evidentiary node of an accusation that Trump traded U.S. foreign policy for money.

Now we're being talked at about a summary of a report that doesn't even relate to that accusation. WTF?

*These are just some of his tweets today

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Abramson has done his homework.

He hasn’t made any wild speculations, just stuck to uncovering facts.

I know you want to lump him in with other clowns on Twitter but that’s not a fair assessment.

[SoCalNative]

4. It's awfullly late in Russia

Shouldn't you be in bed at the troll fram?

[The_jackalope]

5. Talking down a lawyer with one book published and another in the works?

That's guaranteed to win you friends...

[UniteFightBack]

2. I really think the obstruction case must be stopped because Rosenstein is part of it with that

letter.

[uponit7771]

6. Looks like Mueller was ... TOLD ... to narrow his scope. Time to hear from Mueller right hot damn no

[Buckeyeblue]

7. I think it is interesting that the final say on obstruction fell to the new AG

What did we expect him to say. If this was a dem President, the Republicans would be screaming bloody murder.

[DontBooVote]

8. You know what? FUCK Seth Abramson and his feeble attempts to sell his books which, as it turns out,

are moot, if not completely wrong. As is all his desperate (bordering on spam) attempts to save face by stringing his followers along with hopes that have been false.

There will be no easy way out for deposing tRump. We will have to work our asses off for 2020 and shame on any Dem who rails us in that effort.

[Azathoth]

9. Abramson's book sales are gonna take a dive nt

[onenote]

11. as well they should

[onenote]

10. Abramson's report of the summary is NOT accuarate

I get that he's trying to cover his ass, but he claims that AG "usurped" Mueller's job and decided to make the decision himself. We'll, that is not what the summary actually says. What it says is this:

"After making a 'thorough factual investigation' into these matters, the Special Counsel considered whether to evaluate the conduct under Department standards governing prosecution and declination decisions but ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment. The Special Counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion -- one way or the other -- as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction. Instead, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the Special Counsel views as 'difficult issues' of law and fact concerning whether the President's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.'"

The summary goes on to state: "The Special Counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime."

In other words, Abramson is blowing smoke when he claims that Barr (and Rosenstein) "usurped" Mueller's job. Rather, on the face of the report (which is what Abramson claims to be describing), Mueller made the decision not to decide whether to prosecute or to decline to prosecute but instead leave it to the DoJ.