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Yesterday was a sad day for Robert Mueller. Many have already focused on his inept and befuddled performance in front of the House Committees. After reflecting on the two meetings, I have an even more tragic and disgraceful theory of what we watched.
They used Mueller from the very beginning.
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Act I
”Documentary” film maker Michael Moore speaking on George W. Bush’s re-election on the website backstage.com in December 2004:
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“That’s outside my purview.” —Mueller’s apparent prepared answer to every Republican question pointing out his blatant bias, through selective investigation and selective citation.
Offer your own favorite one-liner, be it gem or cow patty, in the comments. Mueller really does not seem on top of his game.
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To say that Robert S. Mueller III did not distinguish himself in his Congressional testimony Wednesday would be an understatement. His answers were halting, when not evasive, and he repeatedly had to ask that a question be repeated. Long before his appearance before the Judiciary and Intelligence committees, there had been rumors that he was senile.
His testimony today suggests two possibilities: that he really is senile, or that he is pretending to be so in order to avoid having to explain his conduct as Special Prosecutor. If the latter is true, it had to do with his reluctance to discuss his decision to hire a host of hyper-partisan Democrats, such as Andrew Weissman, to do the footwork on the case and with his failure to investigate the origins of the Fusion GPS report and to consider the possibility that the Russians made clever use of the Clinton campaign.
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I’m watching the Mueller testimony this morning (live feed embedded below). I do not think it’s going well for the Democrats, the Media, and NeverTrumpers. Here are some highlights (lowlights?) so far:
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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s public statement that is only going to inflame the political tensions in Washington. President Trump and Don Jr. are both throwing cold water on another possible Roy Moore run for U.S. Senate. And Jim and Greg examine the Democratic […]
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Today Special Counsel Robert Mueller gave a statement in which he begged Congress to impeach President Trump: “The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse the president of wrong doing.” Please impeach, in other words.
I think Mueller is a disgrace. Take for example his insistence that Trump is guilty until proven innocent rather than innocent until proven guilty. “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” he said during his statement, repeating a line from the written Mueller Report. This is a direct assault on the entire American idea of justice, which is that the accused do not have to prove their innocence. Rather the government must prove their guilt. Mueller did not spend some $30 million trying to prove Trump “clearly did not commit a crime.” His mandate was to prove Trump’s guilt.
MoreWhat a mess. The Democrats are still desperate to impeach Donald Trump, and it appears they will do just about anything to do that—even destroy their own party. First, they are demanding that Mueller meet with them, although they state that the May 15 hearing date is only tentative. I expect they are trying to […]
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The recent release of the Mueller Report has brought with it neither peace nor finality. Rather, it marks the end of only the latest skirmish in the ongoing war between an embattled president and his determined Democratic foes. To be sure, the charges of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians have been safely put to bed.
But the battle over whether the President engaged in obstruction of justice in the aftermath of his electoral victory has flared anew, in large measure because Mueller issued a Scotch verdict of not-proven when he wrote: “Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” That passage offers an open invitation to Congress to continue an investigation of whether the president obstructed justice. Progressive Democrats are now pressuring Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to begin impeachment proceedings against the president on just that charge.
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Attorney General Bill Barr released the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller today. Here it is so you can read it and draw your own conclusions.
Let us know in the comments what you think.
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Attorney General Bill Barr held a press conference on April 18, 2019, to discuss the release of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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. . . as Special Counsel to investigate the investigators. Just a suggestion. More
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John Dowd was President Trump’s lawyer during a critical time in the Mueller probe. Boy, was there a lot going on behind the scenes. A peek inside the epic battle of the presidency with the president’s attorney.
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It seems that “13 hardened Democrats” or “angry Democrats” did not deliver a politically-motivated, illegitimate hit job after all. Based on what we know so far, the special counsel’s office reported that it did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. This is a fabulous vindication of the integrity of the system.
No one is noticing that. Instead, the Trump team is gorging on schadenfreude, and the anti-Trump team is choking on bile.
MoreJim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad to see the Mueller report conclude that neither Donald Trump not anyone else in his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 elections. They also get a kick out of Trump critics frantically moving the goalposts to claim the new attorney […]
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Attorney General William Barr sent his summary of the Mueller Investigation to Congress Sunday. You can read a PDF of the document here. The letter recounts the full Mueller report, dividing it into two parts: possible Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and obstruction of justice. Regarding the first, Barr writes:
MoreThe Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As the report states: “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
According to news reports, Robert Mueller has delivered a report to Attorney General Bill Barr. Fox News:
MoreSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted to Attorney General Bill Barr his long-awaited report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race and possible collusion with Trump associates — marking the end of the politically explosive probe and the beginning of a new battle over its contents and implications. Mueller is “not recommending any further indictments,” a senior DOJ official told Fox News.
Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the news that the Mueller probe will likely end soon with no further indictments. They wonder why President Trump is so insistent upon inviting New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to the White House with his team and whether he would be smarter […]
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In a developing news story, Fox News reported that Natalia Veselnitskaya, who is (gasp!) Russian, has been charged in absentia this morning in federal court in the Southern District of New York with obstruction of justice “in connection to a civil money laundering and forfeiture case involving a Russian tax refund fraud scheme, first uncovered by the late Sergei Magnitsky.”
I have no idea what that means but it’s clear it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This is despite the fact that the only reason this is a news item anyone will pay attention to is that Veselnitskaya was one of several people connected to the Democrat opposition research firm Fusion GPS that met with Donald Trump, Jr; Paul Manafort; and Jared Kushner in Trump Tower, June 2016. This was the meeting that, when it was first reported on by the very fake news, we were promised proved collusion™, except that it didn’t.
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As Sarah walked from the diner’s serving room to the kitchen, she knew two things: her blood pressure had already begun to rise, and that it was only a matter of time before her latest customer began screaming like a psychopath. Sadly, it was a routine that they had all become used to. She really […]
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