Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony was lethal to the legal pretext for keeping the Russian collusion story alive.
Indeed, the maundering and semi-coherent manner with which he answered the questions posed to him during Wednesday’s hearings suggests that he was probably never up to the job of running the special counsel investigation into Russian interference with our 2016 election.
Mueller’s excruciating testimony made it obvious that he was unfamiliar with crucial passages of the report that bears his name. He had obvious difficulty grasping the point of many questions he was asked.
The report is so tainted by Mueller’s obvious incapacity — combined with the notorious partisanship of the people who actually investigated the president and wrote the so-called Mueller report — that it will now be suicidal for the Democrats to pursue impeachment.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) lecturing Mueller for flouting special counsel rules:
You told us this morning and in your report that you made no determination so respectfully director, you didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says, “Write a confidential report about decisions reached.” Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that weren’t reached. You wrote 180 pages about decisions that weren’t reached about potential crimes that weren’t charged.… And respectfully, by doing that you managed to violate every principle in the most sacred of traditions about prosecutors not offering extra prosecutorial analysis about potential crimes that aren’t charged.
The aging G-Man delivered the coup de grâce. Resuscitation was “outside his purview,” as he would phrase it. It’s time for the Democrats to call the undertaker and give impeachment a decent burial.
Mueller’s reputation and impeachment weren’t Wednesday’s only casualties. Democratic credibility is also bleeding out.
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Good. Now it’s time for Republicans to start telling people about the Hildebeast and the Surrender Monkeys collusion with Russia. Forget about calling for a new investigation or special needs counsel, just have some backbone and speak up....Yes PAT THE RUSSIAN...we KNOW what that means!!!
The case for impeachment is alive and well. The only question is whether Democrats want to waste their time. The Republican Party is corrupted and stood by while all of this was going on. This is the party that voted to impeach Clinton over a personal affair. Spectator is a pro-Trump so their article is hardly surprising.
We know the report was damning as Republicans rush to attack Muller with the very talking points that you use. These are nothing but spitballs thrown by desperate Trump supporters.
Ratcliffe is a Trump rat. A partisan hack. The decision was made by the DOJ that a sitting President cannot be indicted. Mueller has every right to write the report as he sees fit.
The whole report can be summed up in one sentence.
The Special Counsel did NOT determine the president committed a crime.
It's as simple as that.
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Well no it can't since that's bullshit.
Special Counsel WAS NOT LEGALLY PERMITTED to determine if the president commited a crime. But Special Counsel did present the facts of the matter without making a prosecuratorial determination.
Those facts plainly describe Trump commiting Obstruction of Justice and it's the job of Congress (and ONLY Congress) to hold him accountable.
3 top lawyers at the DOJ disagree, the Mueller team tried to shoehorn laws to fit their narrative, laws that have never applied to similar situations. You commies can keep pretending otherwise, it only proves what fools you really are.
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