Is it me, or is Trump getting desperate in his attempts to deflect the attention?
To anyone not in his fanclub, it's a known fact that he lies a lot (in fact...even his fans often admit this). Therefore, him shouting publicly that there is no collusion has roughly the same effect as not having said anything at all.
However, just like with the "Mexico is going to pay for the wall" lie, there are consequences to this. If it turns out that he has instructed Barr to not give a proper reflection on the Mueller report, this is one more example of obstruction of justice for him. And like the consequence of the first lie is that Mexico isn't paying for the wall, the consequence of collusion (once proven) should be impeachment, followed by proper trial (okay: only the latter is needed. But if being the president protects you from the latter, the former should be done first).
Oh, and it also has the consequence of William Barr being an accomplice. You can't have a minister of justice who places his boss above...well...justice.
So to me, it would seem only the obvious course of action to get everything done by the book rather than these delaying tactics. If it's the senate's task to oversee government (which it is), then it should be given the right to do just that. To me, it would also seem that the government literally should not have authority until this is properly dealt with. But since this isn't being debated about, I can only suppose that for some reason that situation isn't what anyone want. And that's odd...
Let me illustrate that last bit: suppose I decide to rig the next election (news anchor: "...and from out of the blue, having done no campaign whatsoever, a certain "Taleweaver" guy wins the 2020 election with an average 2 trillion votes in each state
") and appoint some loyal henchmen as my minister of justice...would that really mean I could just do whatever the f*** I wanted to? ("yeah, sure...investigate away if that makes you happy. Just drop the report in the mailbox of my minister of justice. He'll deal with it in an objective fashion
") Really...I would think that wouldn't work in this reality, but for some reason nobody is proving me wrong. Even the most hardcore democrats seem pretty unwilling to piss off Trump fanboys. But...why? the way I see it, those guys manage to be pissed off if you wish them a good morning ("your sources of the weather report are too vague to determine for
everyone that it can be classified as well enough to be good...therefore it is NOT, as you claim, a "good morning" ), so...since there's no way around it, you might as well ignore them.