Follows reports that Mueller is going to adopt, endorse and amplify the narrative that Russians hacked the DNC.
One news report asserted that "Russian hackers leaked the emails." Clever juxtaposition of "hack" and "leak" there, to jumble to mind.
A red herring is a political diversion which draws attention away from something of significance. The term probably dates back to the early 19th Century, in which a dead fish was dragged across the trail of a scent, and the bloodhounds would take off after the new and much stronger scent, abandoning the original trail.
This is what has been done in the instance of Seth Rich and the hacking of the DNC e-mails, when the narrative of “Russian collusion” was asserted against the Trump campaign and the Trump Presidency. So long as the attention is diverted away from some very real crimes, the tumult and cry continue to go off in an entirely different direction, until the original trail is grown cold.
Fake news is a very real political tactic. And one that we shall see repeated again and again, because, on the short term, it works.
Mueller is either lying, pathetically gullible, or both.