The innuendo that the Trump opponents have peddled in endless media pieces by blowhard mouthpieces like Jeffrey Toobin is that Roger Stone WAS a conduit for the Trump campaign to Russians wanting to assist Trump to beat Hillary Clinton, and Stone refusing to cooperate with Mueller has kept that information under wraps to the benefit of Trump.

THAT IS ALL A LIE. The Mueller Report sets forth the facts revealing this media narrative to be a lie. Toobin is one of the serial perpetrators of this lie.

The FACTS in the Mueller Report show Stone had NO connections beyond 3-4 Twitter messages in August with “Guccifer 2.0”, which amounted to nothing, one twitter exchange with someone on the Wikileaks Twitter account in October which was acrimonious, and one message from the same Twitter account in November that Stone didn’t respond to.

That’s it – there was nothing more. Stone is not, and never was, a link between the Trump Campaign and any Russian effort to influence the outcome of the election. He is not hiding any information in that regard for the benefit of Pres. Trump, and Jeffrey Toobin telling you that is true reveals either 1) Toobin hasn’t actually read the Mueller Report for himself, or 2) Toobin doesn’t understand the significance of what the Report does say. He’s still living the fantasy of what all those “anonymous” former IC community members whisper in the ears of CNN commentators when the lights go down on the set (apologies to James Gagliano).

I think we found something to agree on:

The Stone commutation represents a culmination (if not, necessarily, the final one) of Trump’s efforts to dismantle the legacy of the Mueller investigation.

I would say that the Mueller investigation was a farce, and it deserves the treatment it is getting from Trump, Barr, and other critics. The two most comprehensive indictments — the GRU Operative case and the Concord Management case, were both written with the full expectation that nothing in those indictments would ever need to be proven in a courtroom. When that turned out to not be the case with respect to Concord Management, the SCO tucked its tail between its legs and dismissed the case — folding up its tent altogether not long after. THAT is an embarrassment likely to never be lived down in the career of Jeannie Rhee, the lead prosecutor and Mueller acolyte on that case.